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Title: Celtic Scotland

A history of ancient Alban. Volume 3 (of 3), Land and people

Author: W. F. Skene

Release date: November 9, 2024 [eBook #74710]

Language: English

Original publication: Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1886

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Footnotes were numbered beginning afresh with each chapter. They have been resequenced across the entire text for uniqueness. On occasion, notes are cross-referenced by number. These references have been changed as well.

In Appendix II (pp. 410-427), a lengthy poem is presented with the Gaelic and the English translations on facing pages, so that the reader may readily compare them. They are too wide to give column-wise here. To honor the intent of the author, this section has been reorganized to give each verse and its translation together, the English following the Gaelic in staggered fashion. On the last page of each version, (pp. 426-427), there is, on each page, a Notes section at the bottom. These have been combined to follow the last of the passages.

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CELTIC SCOTLAND
Edinburgh: Printed by Thomas and Archibald Constable
FOR
DAVID DOUGLAS.
LONDON SIMPKIN, HAMILTON, KENT, AND CO., LIM.
CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND BOWES.
GLASGOW JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS.

SCOTLAND
with the
ANCIENT DIVISIONS
Of THE LAND.

CELTIC SCOTLAND:

A HISTORY OF
Ancient Alban

BY
WILLIAM F. SKENE, D.C.L., LL.D.
HISTORIOGRAPHER-ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND.
Volume III.
LAND AND PEOPLE.
SECOND EDITION.
EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS
1890
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