61. History From Rampant Scotland Directory It deals with the history of the ancient Scots from the very earliest times, A lengthy narrative of the origins and history of the picts, http://www.rampantscotland.com/history.htm

Rampant Scotland Directory! History Links to pages on the people and events of Scotland's long history, from before the Romans, through the Dark Ages, the Wars of Independence, the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. There are separate pages on this site Archaeology and Scottish Castles as well as Famous Scots and Scottish Regiments . There is also a separate section for Museums and for researching your own personal family history in the guide to Genealogy. Chronology of Scottish History A timeline of over 700 historical events which took place over the last 2,000 years of Scottish history, with their precise dates from 76AD to 1999. Links are also provided to around 400 related articles where you can find more information on the events - and the people - that made Scotland what it is today. And the dates are also presented month by month - you can find which Scottish event has its anniversary on your special day! Scotland's Past - History Based on a comprehensive timeline of Scottish history, Scotland's Past has a growing number of well written articles on the main events and the characters of Scottish history. If you want to use the time-line to browse a lot of the pages, use the Home page link above; if you want a specific article, here is a list of the main ones: Act of Union, 1707

62. The Basque History Of The World - Mark Kurlansky - Penguin Group (USA) Find The Basque history of the World by Mark Kurlansky and other history books A brief attempt to tie the Basques to the picts, ancient occupants of http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140298517,00.html

SYM=GetSymbol('SYN'); my cart home browse books featured books ... Books by Mark Kurlansky The Basque History of the World The Story of a Nation Mark Kurlansky - Author add to cart view cart Book: Paperback From the author of Cod Mark Kurlansky's passion for the Basque people and his exuberant eye for detail shine throughout this fascinating book. Like Cod The Basque History of the World blends human stories with economic, political, literary, and culinary history into a rich and heroic tale. Among the Basques' greatest accomplishments: rouge Basque pelote, pelote Basque, pelote or, in Spanish and English, pelota . A number of configurations of walls as well as a range of racquets, paddles, and barehanded variations began to develop. Jai alai, fronton and sell it in this shop. Her daughter is the fifth generation. The Pereuils all speak Basque as their first language and make the exact same cake. She is not sure when her great grandfather, Jacques Pereuil, started the shop, but she knows her grandfather, Jacques's son, was born in the shop in 1871. bistochak xapata espadrilles . They also created numerous sports including not only pelota but wagon-lifting contests called orgo joko , and sheep fighting known as agaritalka . They developed their own farm tools such as the two-pronged hoe called a laia , their own breed of cow known as the blond cow, their own sheep called the whitehead sheep, and their own breed of pig, which was only recently rescued from extinction.

63. Scottish History Books - The Internet Guide To Scotland Through the evidence of ancient monuments, artefacts written accounts, and art history, presents a radical new theory about the shadowy picts. http://www.scotland-inverness.co.uk/bk-hist.htm

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64. Current Archaeology Information Centre Offers modular A Level courses in ancient history and Archaeology in Latinand short courses on Celtic Art, the picts, Celtic history and language. http://www.archaeology.co.uk/directory/results.asp?cat=2&type=e&postcode=&res=1&

65. Ancient Clan History ancient Clan history The picts are considered to be among the most ancientof the founding races of Scotland. Bede, a respected historian (born 673), http://www.certech.net/clancraig/Clan History.htm

The surname Craig is one of great antiquity. It originated in the area of the Picts, the eastern portion of Scotland, where they (Picts) were allowed to settle on condition that all their Kings agree to marry an Irish Princess. The Picts are considered to be among the most ancient of the founding races of Scotland. Bede, a respected historian (born 673), estimated that they came to Scotland some fifteen centuries BC, from France. From some early documents researched such as the Inquisito , 1120 AD., the Black Book of the Exchequer, and others, records of the name Craig were produced in Aberdeenshire where they were seated from very ancient times, some say well before the Norman Conquest and the arrival of Duke William at Hastings in 1066. Among the oldest Chiefs of Clan Craig researched is William Craig of Craigfintray, Co. Aberdeen who would have been born sometime in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Next in succession came Alexander Craig of Craigfintray; next came William Craig of Craigfintray, afterwards Craigston, Co. Aberdeen; next was Sir Thomas Craig, b. 1538, d. 1608; married Helen Heriot. Sir Thomas was a great institutional writer on Scottish feudal law, his work Jus Feudale is still referred to by lawyers today.

66. Markers Of Memory That personal history is also a product of accumulated knowledge and new fields of It is not known whether the picts still used the ancient stone and http://www.galleries.bc.ca/agso/markers.html

Markers of Memory: Recent Work by Ruth MacLaurin and Mary McCulloch January 27 - March 12, 1995 Curatorial Essay I. Memory and personal history An original work of art created by an artist is the result of that individual's personal history, the accumulation of education and experience that has become part of memory and is made visible through artistic form. That personal history is also a product of accumulated knowledge and new fields of exploration. Inevitably, all these things become synthesized into a particular form. The viewer may then bring these particular forms together and re-interpret them according to his or her own personal history. From that perspective, we spend our lives reading each other and reading ourselves to others, much like the exiles in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 . Art history seeks to record and interpret these personal histories in the belief that they provide the chronicle of our aspirations. Art history becomes not only the collected works of art of the past, but the chronicle of human knowledge and experience as made visible through works of art. An individual's personal history and experience is also a person's memory: something that is explored, mined, re-visited and re-interpreted as a result of thought and contemplation. Part of that history is heritage. We study our past in an attempt to explain our present. The Celtic heritage is at the root of much of the European culture that was brought over to this Continent. Immigration from Scotland and Ireland was particularly significant. Whether that immigration was within living memory or not, such a strong cultural identity becomes, in itself, a subject of exploration for the artist. Some aspects of the distant culture's characteristic art forms become the subject of new works of art as if in a conscious attempt to perpetuate a vanishing memory.

67. Ireland's History In Maps - Celtic Ireland Ireland history in Maps is a chronological exploration of Irish geography and The Cruithni of Scotland are equated with the ancient Pretani, or picts. http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/ire000.htm

100 AD Ice Ages and the Arrival of Humans Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages Maps: BC Reference: Before there were Counties Old Irish Kingdoms and Clans Old Irish Surnames The Myths of Time After examining some of the ancient record for Ireland we turn to the early Irish chronicles. The earliest written pre-history of Ireland is passed down in the form of saga stories, legal tracts, annalistic records, and fragmentary accounts which were recorded centuries after they actually may have occurred. Because of this scholars consider the events and people of the pre-Christian (and early Christian) period to be viewed with a skeptical eye. Rather than discounting the earliest chronicles and events, which form an integral part of the early Irish tradition , they are noted here and on the next few pages. One such tradition is an account of the early people of Ireland, found in such works as the Leabhar Gabhála Book of Leinster , and in the ' Annals of the Four Masters '. These include stories of ancient tribes whose arrival outdated that of the Gael and their ancient progenitor King Milesius (Milidh).

68. Ireland's History In Maps - Ancient Uladh, Ulidia, The Kingdom Of Ulster As such they are often cited as an ancient people with ties to the picts, Cited in O Laverty s history of Down and Connor, the territory of Dál mBuain http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlkik/ihm/ulster.htm

Ancient Uladh Kingdom of Ulster Uladh Kings of Uladh Annals of Uladh Airghialla Northern Ui Neill ... Munster Ulster Home Names Baronies Clans ... History Background on Uladh Some of the early "references" of tribal names in Ulster come to us from scholars translating the map of Ireland that Ptolemy provided in the middle of the 2nd century. Little is known of these tribal names, or exactly where and if they existed under these names. For purposes of sharing one version of these translations the following paragraph is drawn from Samuel Lewis in the early 19th century. About the time of Ptolemy (c.150 AD) the tribes of the Vennicnii and the Rhobogdii are translated to be near the modern county of Donegal, prior to the arrival of the sons of Niall in the 4th century, that is Eoghan of Cenél Eóghain, Conall Gulban of Cenél Conaill, Enda of Cenél nEnnae and Cairbe of Cenél Cairpre. Ptolemy also mentions the country of the Darnii, or Darini, possibly in the present county of Derry, prior to the rise of the O'Cathains, a branch and tributary to the O'Nialls ( Northern Uí Neill ). In

69. The Pictish Connection In Arthurian History The picts, marauders from Scotland, contributed to Arthurian history in a few ancient British history The Pictish Connection in Arthurian history http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/6546/47336

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70. History The old inhabitants, descendents of the ancient picts, hated the Norse and Legend has it that when an old Highland Chief was writing the history of his http://www.tartans.com/official/MacDuff/usa/history.htm

The Legendary History of Clan MacDuff (CLAN DHUIBH) The Duffs are descended from those original Gaels who inhabited the Highlands of Scotland long before the Roman Invasion, and before the Christian era. Their ancient Gaelic name, Dhuibh, is pronounced Duff, and signifies a dark complected man with dark hair. The first Scottish Highlanders were members of the ancient German Tribes who crossed over the German Ocean and settled first on the east and north coast of the barren Island of Caledonia, later moving inland. They were of the Chauci, Cimbri, Suevi, Catti, and others, all fair complected with either red or brown hair, and of a giant stature and enormous endurance. The people of Britain and the lowlands of Scotland were originally from France and southern Europe, but the Highlanders from the beginning, kept themselves apart, and did not mingle with the lowlanders, whom they hated. The Duffs were of German Catti ancestry, having settled on the shores of Caithness in very early times. At first they were of the ancient Kournaovioi Tribe who occupied the north peninsula of Caithness, later moving down into Moray below the Moray Firth, where they were Mormaers of the Kanteai Tribe for many ages. At one time Moray included all the north central Highlands, and the more reliable historians agree that the famous Thane of Fife came from Moray, previous to the great historical event which brought him to the attention of posterity. With the other Caledonian Tribes the Duffs fought the Roman Invaders and thus prevented the foreigners from gaining a foothold in Scotland.

71. The Ancient History Of The Distinguished Surname Wright Its ancient history is closely woven into the rich and beautiful tapestry of This ancient founding race of the north was a mixture of Scottish picts and http://www.caitlinbinning.com/wrightname.htm

Caitlin Wright - My Family Surname The Ancient History of the Distinguished Surname Wright The dark rolling moors of the Scottish/English border are home to this notable surname Wright. Its ancient history is closely woven into the rich and beautiful tapestry of the border chronicles. In-depth research into some of the most ancient manuscripts such as the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, the Inquisitio, the Ragman Rolls, the Domesday Book, baptismals, parish records, tax records and cartularies, gave researchers the first record of the name Wright in Berwickshire where they had been seated from ancient times. Ralph Wright of Stirling and Thomas Wright of Blakenhall in Lanarkshire rendered homage to King Edward I of England in 1296, on his brief conquest of Scotland. The name, Wright, appeared in many references, and from time to time, the surname was spelt Wright, Right, Write, Wrighte, Alwright, Allwright, Oldwright, and these changes in spelling frequently occurred within the family name. Scribes and church officials spelled the name as it sounded, and frequently the spelling changed even during the person's own lifetime. The family name Wright is believed to be descended originally from the Boernicians. This ancient founding race of the north was a mixture of Scottish Picts and Angles, a race dating from about the year 400 A.D. By 1000 A.D. this race had formed into discernible Clans and families, perhaps some of the first evidence of the family structure in Britain. From this area we get some of the most impressive names in history, surnames with unique nicknames such as the Sturdy Armstrongs, one of whom was, appropriately the first to colonize the moon the Gallant Grahams, the Saucy Scotts, the Angry Kerrs, the Belts, the Nixons, the Famous Dicksons, the Bold Rutherfords, the Pudding Somervilles, and most of the names ending in "son".

72. Institute Of Archaeology And Antiquity Professor of ancient history Archaeology Hunter, JR A Persona for theNorthern picts, Groam House Museum, Rosemarkie. 1999. Hunter, JR and Heyworth, http://www.iaa.bham.ac.uk/staff/hunter.htm

Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity University Fast Find Site Index Schools / Departments Telephone Directory Email Directory Useful Contacts Frequently Asked Questions Directions / Maps Acronym Directory Vacancies INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ANTIQUITY Birmingham Archaeology Unit Ironbridge Institute Undergraduate Studies Postgraduate Studies ... Contact Details School Links: Historical Studies Website Virtual Tours Institute Staff: Professor John Hunter Contact Details photo: Murdo MacLeod/Readers Digest Email: J.R.Hunter@bham.ac.uk Tel: 0121 41 45498 Room: 306 BA, PhD, MIFA, FSA(Scot), FSA, RFP Current Research This includes survey and excavation of Early Christian sites in the Northern and Western Isles, most recently the monastery on Papa Stronsay, Orkney, the use of geophysics and wearable computing in forensic science, and landscape analysis/cultural resource management of Harris (from 2004). Past Research John Hunter has spent much of his research career in Scotland in the Northern and Western Isles, including survey in Scapa Flow, Fair Isle and Canna, with major excavations at the Brough of Birsay, Orkney, the multi-period site of Pool, Sanday, and an Iron Age promontory fort on Fair Isle, Shetland. Other professional interests include forensic archaeology which involves operational support and presentational work for UK police forces. He is a lead assessor for the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners, a Director of the Centre for International Forensic Assistance, and has worked widely on homicides in the UK, as well as in the Falklands, the Balkans and Iraq. He is a former Secretary of RESCUE, Vice-Chair of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, both a Diocese and Cathedral Archaeologist, and was Head of the Department of Ancient History and Archaeology from 1997 - 2002.

73. Bran Mak Morn: The Last King - REH And The Picts The ancient race known as the picts, however, extends across the breadth of In relating his race s history, the ancient Pict seems to suggest that they http://www.wanderingstarbooks.com/bran/rehpict.html

Robert E. Howard's... Bran Mak Morn: The Last King Illustrated by Gary Gianni Robert E. Howard, Bran Mak Morn, and the Picts by Rusty Burke The ancient race known as the Picts, however, extends across the breadth of Howard's writing career, from hand-written manuscripts dating from 1923 or so, through one of the last-written Conan stories (1935), rarely a year passed that they did not figure in some tale. Main Page About the Book Art Gallery More ... Order the Book

74. Lugodoc's Guide To Arthurian Myth ancient history The actual historical events in the late 5th/early 6th centuries to settle in SE Britain in return for help against Irish picts http://www.lugodoc.demon.co.uk/MYTH/Arthur/Arthur0.htm

Lugodoc's Guide to Arthurian Myth Following his obsessive re-chronicling of Irish and Welsh Celtic myth, Lugodoc felt compelled to tackle the big one: Arthurian Myth. King Arthur is without doubt the great, definitive British hero. There are an enormous number of sources of Arthurian myth, many referring to earlier known texts, and more referring to earlier lost texts. Very few tie in neatly with the commonly held image of the story of Arthur, and most hold many surprises. The Evolution of the Myth It seems to Lugodoc that "Arthur" was originally a Celtic title, meaning something like "bear of battle", and that more than one of these British heroes fought against the invading Irish, Picts, Danes, Jutes, Angles and Saxons in the chaotic century after the withdrawal of Rome from Britain. The mutation of the Arthurian story from dark age history into medieval romance seems to have occurred like this: Late 5 th century Romano-British Dux Bellorum (Lord of Battles) Arthur defeats Saxons at Mt Badon Early 6 th century Welsh Celtic chief Arthur defeats Modred at Cammlan th to 12 th centuries Christian monks write down history from the oral and earlier written records, confusing several Arthurs into one. The high-gravity hero myth attracts elements from Welsh-Celtic-pagan and Anglo-Christian history and myth, and begins to grow

75. Chronology Of Boys' Clothing: Ancient Civilizations Archeologists have divided the history of ancient India into three principal Litte information is available on the clothing worn by the ancient picts. http://histclo.hispeed.com/chron/ancient/ancient.html

Chronology of the Development of Boys' Clothing Styles: Ancient Civilizations Figure 1.This recreation of a boy in ancient Greece is from a well researched children's book titled Ancient GreeceCome and Discover my World . The book features the lifestyles and activities of an ancient Greek community. It was published by Two-Cam Publishing Ltd, London, 1998. A wonderful book with delightful photographs and illustrations of boys and girls depicting the wear of the day. Here we see Cleon who is nine years old. He is a citizen of Athens and when he grows up, will have to serve in the army. But for now he goes to school, helps his father and play sports. Here we see him with his tortoise-shell lyre. At school he is taught to recite poetry and play the lyre at the same time. Although the ancient world is not the focus of HBC, some information has been collected on clothing in ancient civilizations. It is only basic information as HBC has not yet been able to devote much attention to this topic. We have found some images of recreations or moderrn drawings. We are very interested un finding actual contemprary images showing boys clothing. Unfortunately such images are relatively rare. Indivividual Ancient Civilizations We have collected some information on the history and clothing technology of several important early civilaztion. The first major civilizations arose along fertile river vallies which supported the first pritive agriculyure. primitiveActual information on boys' clothing is extremely limited, but we will add what ever information becomes available.

76. ANCIENT HISTORY ancient history. As the retreating ice sheets uncovered the bleak and barren The picts (later called the Cruithne by the Celts) may also have been part http://mulvihill.net/genealogy/ancient/MulvihillsOfGlinANCIENT.htm

ANCIENT HISTORY As the retreating ice sheets uncovered the bleak and barren surface of the land, sea levels rose and filled the yawning chasm that would, in time, become the Irish Sea. The time was approximately 11,000 years ago and, save a few migrating birds, neither flora nor fauna decorated the rocky, scree covered panorama. It would not be long, however before the first grasses would appear, and the length and breadth of the land shimmered under constant moisture-laden gales. Within a few hundred years, forests of beech and juniper, alder and birch, would cloak the land, trapping the mists from leaden skies. The stage was set for the arrival of our earliest ancestors – those who would begin the process of transforming this land and capturing it’s shrouded mysteries as captivating tales of legend and myth. The Emerald Isle would at once be both beguiling and forbidding, and the reality no less fascinating than the myths themselves. What would begin as storytellers art millennia ago would evolve into a record that approaches historical text. Never mere fancy, these legends can be viewed as markers of cultural change, and as such, they may provide a vivid, if exaggerated, glimpse of critical times of transition. Specific facts, such as names, dates, and even places must be treated with suspicion, but behind that façade often lays the framework of a civilization in evolution. Neolithic man also left his physical imprint upon this land . This was The Age of Farming, and, as farmers, they cleared the land aggressively. With well-crafted stone axes they felled the forests that covered the highlands, and then the valleys. Wooden plows left imprints in the soil that have even been preserved to this day. They raised wheat and barley, pigs, goats, sheep, and cattle. The post-holes of

77. A Child's History Of England By Charles Dickens 1 A Child s history of England CHAPTER II - ancient ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS . As if the picts and Scots were not bad enough on land, the Saxons http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/charles_dickens/a_child_s_history_of_eng

Enjoy Free Classics Site Map Electronic Library Charles Dickens A Child's History of England A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens previous: CHAPTER I - ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS CHAPTER II - ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS They were in such distress, in short, that they sent a letter to Rome entreating help - which they called the Groans of the Britons; and in which they said, 'The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.' But, the Romans could not help them, even if they were so inclined; for they had enough to do to defend themselves against their own enemies, who were then very fierce and strong. At last, the Britons, unable to bear their hard condition any longer, resolved to make peace with the Saxons, and to invite the Saxons to come into their country, and help them to keep out the Picts and Scots. It was a British Prince named VORTIGERN who took this resolution, and who made a treaty of friendship with HENGIST and HORSA, two Saxon chiefs. Both of these names, in the old Saxon language, signify Horse; for the Saxons, like many other nations in a rough state, were fond of giving men the names of animals, as Horse, Wolf, Bear, Hound. The Indians of North America, - a very inferior people to the Saxons, though - do the same to this day. HENGIST and HORSA drove out the Picts and Scots; and VORTIGERN, being grateful to them for that service, made no opposition to their settling themselves in that part of England which is called the Isle of Thanet, or to their inviting over more of their countrymen to join them. But HENGIST had a beautiful daughter named ROWENA; and when, at a feast, she filled a golden goblet to the brim with wine, and gave it to VORTIGERN, saying in a sweet voice, 'Dear King, thy health!' the King fell in love with her. My opinion is, that the cunning HENGIST meant him to do so, in order that the Saxons might have greater influence with him; and that the fair ROWENA came to that feast, golden goblet and all, on purpose.

78. Pictish Scotland The origins of the picts are clouded with many fables, sometimes mighty,sometimes delicate stones that the history of ancient Scotland is now recorded. http://www.fife.50megs.com/pictish-scotland.htm

Tour Scotland Home Page Click Here for: Scottish Cooking or Recipes Best Scottish Books or Scottish Music Small Group Tours Of Scotland The Picts The origins of the Picts are clouded with many fables, legends and fabrications, and there are as many theories as to who the Picts were (Celtic, Basque, Scythians, etc.), where they came from, what they ate or drank, and what language they spoke, as there once were Pictish raiders defying the mighty legions of Rome. It was this rare form of succession which in the year 845 A.D. gave the crown of Alba and the title Rex Pictorum to a Celtic Scot, son of a Pictish princess by the name of Kenneth, Son of Alpin. This Kenneth MacAlpin, whose father's kingship over the Scots had been earlier taken over by the Pictish king Oengus, who ruled as both king of Picts and Scots, and who possibly harbored a deep ethnic hatred for the Picts, and in the event known as "MacAlpin's Treason" murdered the members of the remaining seven royal houses thus preserving the Scottish line for kingship of Alba and the eventual erasure from history of the Pictish race, culture and history. The true mystery in Pictish studies is the extraordinary disappearance of the culture of the tattoed nations of the North. The fact that within three generations of MacAlpin kings, the Picts were almost held in legendary status as a people of the past must be the real question to be answered, and the historian is consumed by legend, lack of facts and the nagging story of an obscure intrigue leading to genocide of a people, its customs, culture, laws and art.

79. Gigablast Search Results Includes illustrated articles on the picts, ancient Site concentrating onthe earlier aspects of Scottish history picts, Scots, Gaels and the Celtic http://dir.gigablast.com/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Society_and_Cul

Family filter: On Off Entire Directory Entire Category Pages in Base Category Sites in Base Category Top Regional Europe Scotland ... Wars Related Categories: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Society and Culture: History Society: Organizations: Lineage: Cultural: Clans: Scottish This category in other languages: G idhlig A Short History of Scotland Scotland Vacations gives a timeline of the history of Scotland leading to illustrated features on people and places. www.scotlandvacations.com/ScottishHistory.htm [archived copy] [stripped] [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 - modified: Apr 21 2005 BBC: In Search of Scotland Covers the history of Scotland from mysterious ancestors to the modern day, with a focus on religion and Scotland's relations with Europe and England. Includes a multi-media gallery. Category: Kids and Teens: Entertainment: Television: Educational www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/ [archived copy] [stripped] [older copies] - indexed: Apr 26 2005 Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 The National Library of Scotland presents the first atlas of Scotland, containing 49 engraved maps and 154 pages of descriptive text, translated from Latin into English for the first time.

80. Dickens, Charles - A Child's History Of England - Chapter 2 A CHILD S history OF ENGLAND. by Charles Dickens. CHAPTER II ancient ENGLAND UNDER As if the picts and Scots were not bad enough on land, the Saxons http://www.classicallibrary.org/dickens/childshistory/chapter02.htm

Home Authors Titles Keyword Search ... Previous Chapter A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND by Charles Dickens CHAPTER II - ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS They were in such distress, in short, that they sent a letter to Rome entreating help - which they called the Groans of the Britons; and in which they said, 'The barbarians chase us into the sea, the sea throws us back upon the barbarians, and we have only the hard choice left us of perishing by the sword, or perishing by the waves.' But, the Romans could not help them, even if they were so inclined; for they had enough to do to defend themselves against their own enemies, who were then very fierce and strong. At last, the Britons, unable to bear their hard condition any longer, resolved to make peace with the Saxons, and to invite the Saxons to come into their country, and help them to keep out the Picts and Scots. It was a British Prince named VORTIGERN who took this resolution, and who made a treaty of friendship with HENGIST and HORSA, two Saxon chiefs. Both of these names, in the old Saxon language, signify Horse; for the Saxons, like many other nations in a rough state, were fond of giving men the names of animals, as Horse, Wolf, Bear, Hound. The Indians of North America, - a very inferior people to the Saxons, though - do the same to this day. HENGIST and HORSA drove out the Picts and Scots; and VORTIGERN, being grateful to them for that service, made no opposition to their settling themselves in that part of England which is called the Isle of Thanet, or to their inviting over more of their countrymen to join them. But HENGIST had a beautiful daughter named ROWENA; and when, at a feast, she filled a golden goblet to the brim with wine, and gave it to VORTIGERN, saying in a sweet voice, 'Dear King, thy health!' the King fell in love with her. My opinion is, that the cunning HENGIST meant him to do so, in order that the Saxons might have greater influence with him; and that the fair ROWENA came to that feast, golden goblet and all, on purpose.

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