The Celtic Magazine
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ISBN13: 9780217575546
Paperback|9780217575546
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRADITIONS OF STRATHGLASS. By Colin Chisholm. In this and the succeeding papers on the traditions of my native glen, I shall only select such legends as truthful and trustworthy people used to recite: Straghlais a chruidh Chininn Cha robh mi ann aiueol, 'S To mli.it.h b'eol dhomh Gleanncanaich an fheoir. There is an old tradition in Strathglass that all the inhabitants of the name of Ghisholm in the district are descended from a colony of emigrants who left Caithness in troublesome times and located themselves in the Glen. From my earliest recollection I used to hear this story among the people. Some believed, some doubted, and some denied it altogether. In Maclan's sketches of the Highland Clans, there is a short account of the Clan Chisholm and how they settled in the Highlands, by James Logan, F.S.A. Scot, written by him for MacIan when he was a librarian in the British Museum, where he collected the data from which he wrote his admirable history of the Scottish Gael. Finding the old Strathglass tradition partly, if not wholly substantiated by the following extract from No. 2, page 1, of the joint sketches by Maclan and Logan, let me place it before the reader, that he may judge for himself: ? Harald, or Guthred, Thane of Caithness, nourished in the latter part of the twelfth century. Sir Robert Gordon gives him the surname of Chisholm; and the probability is, that it was the general name of his followers. He married the daughter of Madach, Earl of Athol, and became one of the most powerful chiefs in the north, where he created con- tinned disturbances during the reign of William the Lion, by whom he was at last defeated and put to death, his lands being divided between Freskin, ancestor of the Earls of Sutherland, and Manus, or Magnus, son of Gillibre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217575546 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217575544 |
| Weight | 1.80 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.25 In |
| List Price | $34.33 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 562 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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