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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... ancestors. To fix any definite date for this hypothetical fusion is impossible. But it may be noted that the ninth century is remarkable as the period of the Norse colonisation of Orkney, then largely occupied by earth-dwelling " Pehts" (says Bishop Tulloch); and that the same century saw the final overthrow of the Picts in Scotland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and the beginning of their amalgamation with the conquering Gaels. Whether the Orkney souterrains were in occupation in Bishop Tulloch's day does not appear. That the souterrains of Ireland were inhabited as recently as 1317 we know from a reference in an Irish manuscript;1 and there are various accounts which show that those of Scotland were intermittently occupied in subsequent centuries. Even to-day the wandering tinker sometimes finds a comfortable gtte in those deserted subterranean abodes. But whether or not the souterrains of Orkney were inhabited in Tulloch's day, and by whatever race, pure or mixed, he could scarcely fail to know of their existence; and consequently there was nothing to surprise him in the current 1 See the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, July, 1896, p. 148. statement that the Picts of the ninth century took refuge "in little houses underground." For the building on the Calf of Eday, so minutely described by Mr. Farrer, has or had many congeners in the Orkney Islands; and Bishop Tulloch could have visited another specimen without going so far as Eday. Five miles to the north-east of his castle of Noltland there is a tiny "holm " lying off the east coast of the island of Papa Westray, and on the summit of this islet there rises a long, low mound of elliptical form. Some fifty years ago this mound was investigated by the officers ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ... ancestors. To fix any definite date for this hypothetical fusion is impossible. But it may be noted that the ninth century is remarkable as the period of the Norse colonisation of Orkney, then largely occupied by earth-dwelling " Pehts" (says Bishop Tulloch); and that the same century saw the final overthrow of the Picts in Scotland by Kenneth MacAlpin, and the beginning of their amalgamation with the conquering Gaels. Whether the Orkney souterrains were in occupation in Bishop Tulloch's day does not appear. That the souterrains of Ireland were inhabited as recently as 1317 we know from a reference in an Irish manuscript;1 and there are various accounts which show that those of Scotland were intermittently occupied in subsequent centuries. Even to-day the wandering tinker sometimes finds a comfortable gtte in those deserted subterranean abodes. But whether or not the souterrains of Orkney were inhabited in Tulloch's day, and by whatever race, pure or mixed, he could scarcely fail to know of their existence; and consequently there was nothing to surprise him in the current 1 See the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, July, 1896, p. 148. statement that the Picts of the ninth century took refuge "in little houses underground." For the building on the Calf of Eday, so minutely described by Mr. Farrer, has or had many congeners in the Orkney Islands; and Bishop Tulloch could have visited another specimen without going so far as Eday. Five miles to the north-east of his castle of Noltland there is a tiny "holm " lying off the east coast of the island of Papa Westray, and on the summit of this islet there rises a long, low mound of elliptical form. Some fifty years ago this mound was investigated by the officers ...
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