Ella S. Armitage
Published: 2015-06-13
Total Pages: 175
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Excerpt from The Connection Between England and Scotland At the time of the conversion of England (597), the date at which the authentic history of England begins, we find four nations occupying this island - the Picts, Scots, Britons, and English, each speaking their own language. The very names of England and Scotland were then unknown; nor were all the elements from which the two great kingdoms were to be formed as yet present on the soil. But then, as now, two nationalities - the Keltic and the Teutonic - divided the land between them, though in a distribution widely different from that of to-day. The Picts, Scots, and Britons were Kelts; the English were Teutons. The Picts. - The Picts were the descendants of those wild tribes of the North whom the Romans called the Caledonians. They probably belonged to the Gaelic branch of the Keltic family. In the time of Agricola they possessed not only all Scotland north of the Firths of Clyde and Forth, but a great part of the north of Ireland. Their national name was Cruithnigh; but they received the name of Picts from the Romans because they tattooed their bodies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.