The Cat-stane, Edinburghshire: Is it Not the Tombstone of the Grandfather of Hengist and Horsa?Neill, 1862 - 51 ページ |
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Account of Scotland Aethelweard Almond Ammianus amnis ancestors of Hengist ancient Anglo-Saxon appellation Archæologia authorities battle of Gwen-Ystrad Bede Bede's Britain British Britons cairns Carlowrie Cat-stane inscription Cat-stane stands Catstean Celtic century cohorts commemorated Constantine Constantine IV copy descent described early Edinburgh England father filii Frisian Galysten Geat genealogy Geth Getus Gough grandfather of Hengist Guith Gweth Hengist and Horsa Historia Britonum Historia Ecclesiastica History inch inscribed stones Inver JACIT Kemble kings of Kent Kirkliston lapidary Latin leader legend linear point Llangian Lothians Maitland miles monolith monument Monumenta Historica Britannica Nennius origin palæographic parish pedigree Philosophical Transactions Pictish Pictish kings Picts poem probably river Roman capitals Romano-British royal Saxon Chronicle Saxon force Scots Sibbald spelling stane Statistical Account Stevenson's edition strath Suevi surnames terminal letter Teutonic tion tribes TVMVLO upright bar Vecta Vecturiones Vetta Victa VICTI Vitta Wecta Welsh Witta Woden word Wuffa
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9 ページ - ... Sligo, March 12th, 1699-1700." A short time previously he had visited Scotland, and " collected a considerable number of inscriptions." At that time the Cat-stane was a larger and much more imposing monument than it is now, as shown in the following description of it. " One monument," says he, " I met with within four miles of Edinburgh, different from .all I had seen elsewhere, and never observed by their antiquaries. I take it to be the tomb of some Pictish king; though situate by a river side,...
28 ページ - Westphalia; but the tribes by whom Britain was invaded, appear principally to have proceeded from the country now called Friesland; for of all the Continental dialects, the ancient Frisick is the one which approaches most nearly to the Anglo-Saxon of our ancestors.
45 ページ - Qwen-Ystrad between AD 547 and AD 560. " The British kingdom of Rheged, over which Urien ruled, is by some authorities considered as the old British or Welsh kingdom of Cumbria or Cumberland ; but, according to others, it must have been situated further northwards. In the poem of the battle of Qwen-Ystrad (see the Myvyrian Archaiology, vol.
12 ページ - VICTI ; supposed in memory of a person slain there." and its inscription, in 1708, is short but valuable, as affording an old independent reading of the legend. It is contained in his folio essay or work entitled, " Historical Inquiries Concerning the Roman Monuments and Antiquities in Scotland " (p. 50). " Close (says he) by Kirkliston water, upon the south side, there is a square pillar over against the...
5 ページ - Almond ; nearly half a mile below the Boathouse Bridge ; and about three miles above the entrance of the stream into the Frith of Forth, at the old Roman station of Cramond, or Caer Amond. The monument is located in nearly the middle of the base of a triangular fork of ground formed by the meeting of the Gogar Water with the River Almond. The Gogar flows into the Almond about six or seven hundred yards below the site of the Cat-stane.2 The ground on which the Cat-stane stands is the beginning of...
30 ページ - ... in Wessex that men yet call the kindred of the Jutes. From the Old Saxons came the people of Essex, and Sussex, and Wessex. From Anglia, which has ever since" remained waste between the Jutes and the Saxons, came the East Angles, the Middle Angles, the Mercians, and all of those north of the Humber. Their leaders were two brothers, Hengist and Horsa ; who were the sons of Wihtgils ; Wilitgils was the son of Witta, Witta of Wecta, Wecta of Woden. From this Woden arose all our royal kindred, and...
7 ページ - He disposes of the stone and its inscription in the two following short sentences : — " A few miles to the westward of this is the oft-noted Catt Stane in Kirkliston parish, on which the painful antiquary may yet decipher the imperfect and rudely lettered inscription, — the work, most probably, of much younger hands than those that reared the mass of dark...
46 ページ - a recess or lodgment.' (See his Welsh Dictionary, sub voce.) The compound word, Gal-lysten, would perhaps not be thus overstrained if it were held as possibly originating in the meaning, ' the lodgment, inclosure, or resting-place of the foreigner'; and the line quoted would, under such an idea, not inaptly apply to the grave-stone of such a foreign leader as Yetta. Urien's forces are described in the first line of the poem of the battle of Gwen-Ystrad as ' the men of Cattraeth who set out with...
44 ページ - Hist. Britanuica, p. 833. specimens of this kind of verbal alloy, is alluded to above a thousand years ago by Bede,1 in reference to a locality not above fourteen or fifteen miles west from the Cat-stane. For, in his famous sentence regarding the termination of the walls of Antoninus on the Forth, he states that the Picts called this eastern " head of the wall" Pean-fahel, but the Angles called it Pennel-tun.
18 ページ - For genealogical lists full of proper names ending in " r" with the elision of the preceding vowel, see the long tables of Scandinavian and Orcadian pedigrees printed at the end of the work on the pre-Columbian discovery do we feel assured that his reading of the Cat-stane legend, when he visited and copied it upwards of a hundred and sixty years ago, is strictly correct, viz. :— IN OC TV MVLO JACIT VETTA F. VICTI. Palceograph ie Peculiarities.