Place-Names of Scotland (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Place-Names of ScotlandOur treatment of the subject will be historic, pro -ceeding strictly in order of time. The first chapter will refer to all we know of the aborigines of Britain - call them Iberians, Ivernians, Silurians, or what you please - and then will rapidly discuss the largest and most complicated portion of our task - the Celtic names. Then purely English or anglo-saxon, Scandinavian, and Norman names will each receive a chapter, and with the Norman we will treat the Roman names, a group too insignificant to call for separate handling. Purely modern names will be dealt with last of all, and, as ecclesiastical names form so large and important a group, they will receive a chapter to themselves. The study will be no mere dilettante triflin g. The historian, the philologist, the antiquarian.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.