An introduction to the history of Great Britain and Ireland: By James Macpherson, ...

INDEX.

A

• ADrian's Wall 41.
• Adultery, its punishment 307.
• Aestiones spoke the same language with the ancient British Nations, 259.
• Agravarii, 151.
• Agricola, Julius crosses the Clyde, 9.
• Aise, 169. The same with Ases of Scan|dinavia, 176.
• Albion, Etymon of 38.
• Ammianus Marcellinus finds, for the first time, the Scots in Britain, 107.
• Amusements of the ancient British Nations, 203. Feasts, ibid. Singing, 206. Dancing, 207. Duelling, ibid. Games of chance, 208.
• Angli, their origin, 290. A tribe of the Vandals, ibid. First mentioned by Ta|citus, ibid. Their original seats on the Baltic, ibid. Worship Hertha, 297.
• Anglo-Saxons, 273. Their origin, 289. Their religion, 294. Their govern|ment, 301.
• Antoninus Pius's Wall, 41. Extends the freedom of Rome to the provinces, 266.
• Arminius, 91.
• Aquitani, 257.
• Attacotti, 150.
• Avari the same with Slavi, 16.

B

• Bards, highly honoured among the an|cient British Nations, 206. Subject of their songs, 213. . Form the moral character of the ancient Britons, 210.

• The respect paid to their order, ibid. Divided into three classes, 211. Re|commended valour and virtue, 213. The favourite instructors of the ancient Britons, 214.
• Bastarnae, 259.
• Bede, the first writer who affirms the Irish extract of the Scots, 108. His cha|racter, 125. Examined and confuted, 125, 126, &c.
• Beer, the common beverage of the Cel|tae, 226.
• Belgae, etymon of their name, 30. The third colony which transmigrated into Britain, ibid.
• Beltein, superstitious ceremony of, 172.
• Bethlusnion, 70.
• Biscayan Language, totally different from the Celtic, 86, 87, 88.
• Bolandus, 66.
• Braccae described 230.
• Brigantes, etymon of their name, 50. A tribe in Ireland, 84.
• Britain, first peopled, 24. Possessed by three nations, ibid. Etymon of its name, 38. Its navigation, 237. And commerce, 240.
• British Nations ancient, 22. Their origin, ibid. Divided into three nations, 24. Their character, 197. Passionate, warlike, impetuous, plain, good|hearted, and upright, 198, 199. Fic|kle, precipitate, curious, hospitable, 200. Proud and haughty, 202. Their

• amusements, 203. Their feasts, ibid. Their enormous size, 216. Their women, 218. Their clothing, 228. Their household furniture, 227. Their navigation, 237. Their houses, 234. Their shipping, 238. Their manu|factures and commodities, 240. Their commerce, 241. Their land carriage, ibid. Use chariots in journies as well as in war, ibid. Their government, 246. Fond of political freedom, 247. Their kings, ibid. Their general assemblies, 248. Their justice, 250. Their cruelty in war, 251. Faithful in foreign service, 252.
• Bulgarians, a branch of the Slavi, 16.

C

• Cairbre-Riada, 130.
• Caledonia, its etymon, 49. Its internal state unknown, ibid. Its boundaries, 50. Its history, 98, &c.
• Caledonians, the most ancient inhabitants of Britain, 41. Ancestors of the Scots, 151. And of the Irish, 94, 155. Send an embassy to Severus, 104.
• Cantabri. 85.
• Cantabric war, 86.
• Cantae, 49.
• Carini, ibid.
• Catti, 151.
• Cauci, 84.
• Celtae, their dominions, 6. First men|tioned in history, ibid. Their origin, 8. Etymon of their name, 9. The Ger|man

• ... Celtae, 10. Mixed with the Sar|matae, 11. Their first expedition to the South, 14. Dissipated in the Ro|man dominions, 15. Their idea of God, 160. Their great size, 215. Ruddy in complexion, with yellow hair and blue eyes, 218. Neat in their dress, 232. Cleanly in their persons, ib. Their character 284.
• Chariots, used in journies by the ancient Britons, 241.
• Christian clergy imitate the Druids, 2.
• Chance, games of, 208.
• Character of the ancient British Nations, 197. Of the Sarmatae, 283. Of the Celtae, 284.
• Cimbri, their origin, 10. Penetrate to the Ionian sea, 11. Extend their conquest to Britain and Spain, ibid. Ancestors of the Welsh, 27.
• Claudian, his authority examined, 115.
• Claudius Civilis crosses the Rhine, 90.
• Clothing of the ancient British nations, 228. Of the men, 229. Of the wo|men, 230,
• Columba, the apostle of the Picts, 148.
• Concani, 84.
• Constantine, by removing the seat of go|vernment, 280. gives a mortal blow to the empire, 281.
• Constantius Chlorus, 106.
• Crimes, the parents of civil regulations, 249.
• Crimothan, a fictitious monarch of Ire|land, 100.
• ...

• ... Cruelty of the Celtae in war, 251.
• Curraghs, a kind of miserable skiffs, 109.

D

• Dalmatia, 17.
• Dalrietta, or the Route, 110.
• Dalreudini, 126.
• Damnii, 51.
• Dancing, one of the amusements of the Celtic nations, 207.
• Dathy, a fictitious Irish prince, 106.
• Deucaledones, 150.
• Dioclesian, obtains signal victories over the Sarmatae, 287.
• Diodorus Siculus, his character of the Irish, 63.
• Divinations, 175.
• Dobuni, etymon of their name, 36.
• Donald O'Neil, a petty king of Ulster, 140
• Druids, their sacred character, 184. They extend their inquiries to the Being and Attributes of God, ibid. Believe in the immortality of the soul, 185. Incul|cate morality, 209. Contend for dig|nities with the sword, 254.
• Drusus depopulates Germany, 91.
• Duelling, 207.

E

• Easga, 168.
• Edda, Islandic, 189.
• Epidii, 49.
• Erin, ancient name of Ireland, its ety|mon, 56.
• Europe, possessed by two nations, 6. Origin of its present inhabitants, 18.

F

• Feasts of the ancient British nations, 203.
• Fenni, 286.
• Ferdan, 211.
• Ferloi, ibid.
• Feudal establishments introduce historical inquiry, 3. Favourable to national spi|rit, ibid.
• Fileas, Irish, 44.
• Flath-Innis, 189.
• Florus, his account of the Cantabric war, 86.
• Fowl, tame, not eaten by the ancient Britons, 204.
• Franks, 15.
• Frea, the wife of Odin, 297. The same with Hertha, ibid.

G

• Gael, their expeditions, 8. The first colony which transmigrated into Bri|tain, 24. Forced northward by the Cimbri, 47. Ancestors of the Irish, ib.
• Gadeni, 51.
• Galgacus, 101.
• Gallaeci, 82.
• Gallicia, 86.
• Gaul, its boundaries, 9.
• Gellach, 168.
• Germanicus massacres the Marsi, 91.
• Germans, ancient, their bravery, 90.
• Gildas examined and confuted, 122.
• God, original opinions concerning him, the most simple, noble, and just, 160. The Celtae looked upon him as the soul of the world, 164.
• Gothini, 259.
• ...

• ... Goths, their origin, 289.
• Government, reflections on the origin of, 242. The popular form more ancient than monarchy, 243. Its nature, 245. Government of the ancient British na|tions, 246. Of the Anglo-Saxons, 301.
• Grannius, its etymon, 167.
• Greeks threw the first light on the northern nations 6.

H

• Hall of Odin, 294.
• Heber, 76.
• Hell unknown to the Celtae, 187.
• Hellespont, one of the boundaries of the Celtae, 6.
• Heremon, an ideal monarch of Ireland, 76.
• Hertha worshipped by the Angli, 297.
• Hesus, its etymon, 162.
• Hibernia, its etymon, 56.
• Historians, Scottish, reprehended, 44.
• Homicide punished by fine, 308.
• Horestii, 150.
• Hospitality in the extreme, 205.
• Household furniture of the ancient Bri|tons, 227.
• Houses of the ancient Britons described, 234. Stone and brick buildings not unknown, but little used, 235.

I

• Iar-ghael, its etymon, 154.
• Ierna, 116. Its etymon, 135.
• Jews believed not in a future state, 183.
• Immortality of the soul, reflections on, 179.
• Incontinence, its punishment, 307.
• ...

• ... Integrity of the ancient Britons, 251.
• Innes, 44. Cuts off forty ideal Scottish monarchs, ibid. Censure, ibid. His ar|guments against the knowledge of letters in ancient Ireland, 66, 67, 68. His opinion of the origin of the Scots, 81.
• Jocelyn, an Irish writer, 132.
• Ireland, called a British Island, 52.
• Irish, their origin, 52. Of British ex|tract, 53. Derive their blood from the Gaël, 54. Ignorant of the use of letters, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, &c. Their pretended civility, 61. Character of them by the ancients, 61, 62, 63. Their manners incompatible with the knowledge of letters, 65. Decisive proof against their knowledge of letters, 72. Their historians reprehended, 74. Their antiquities peculiarly obscure, 76. Their history unknown before the missi|on of St. Patrick, 77. Their Spanish ex|traction examined and confuted, 78, 79, &c. Their Scandinavian extraction confuted, 89. Descended from the Caledonian Britons, 92.
• Irminsul, 295.—Isidorus, 120.
• Julian, the emperor, commended, 281.
• Julius Solinus, his character of the old Irish, 64.
• Justice of the ancient Britons, 250.

K

• Kings, their office among the ancient Britons, 247. Absolute among the Scandinavians, 301. And hereditary,

• 302. Their power very limited among the Saxons, 303. Disrespected, 304. Put to death for no cause but because their people were tired of being com|manded, ibid. Dethroned for bad crops, 305. Their revenues, 306.

L

• Lace, gold, used by the ancient Gauls, 229. Silver lace used by the Ger|mans, 232.
• Language, three languages in Europe, 20. Nations tenacious of their original tongues, 255. Cause of the connec|tion between the French, Spanish, and Italian, 257, Celtic tongue once uni|versal in Europe, 258. Compared with the Latin, 264.
• Latin compared with the Gaëlic, 264.
• Latinus Pacatius, 116.
• Lean, or Leuan, what, 226.
• Learning, its revival in modern Europe, 4.
• Lecan, the book of, 69.
• Letters, their use in the middle ages, 2. Unknown in ancient Ireland, 59.
• Logae, 49.
• Lollius Urbicus, 102.
• Lombards, 257.
• Lucensii, 84.

M

• Marcus Aurelius, repels the Sarmatae, 14. Dies at Sirmium in Pannonia, 287.
• Matae, 50.
• Marcomanni, 287.
• Maroboduus, 91.
• ...

• ... Marsi, a general massacre of them, ibid.
• Maximus, his rebellion, 124.
• Mela, Pomponius, his character of the Irish, 63.
• Middle ages, subject to credulity, 2.
• Melesian Scots, 54. Their migration from Spain an absolute fiction, 76.
• Monarchy, its origin, 243. Less an|cient than the popular form of govern|ment, ibid.
• Morality of the ancient Britons, 209.

N

• Navigation of the ancient Britons, 237.
• Nennius, 66. His testimoy deserves lit|tle attention, 133.
• Nomades, 7.
• Northern nations, their aversion to let|ters, 1. Their successive migrations, 11. Their first irruption into the South, 12. Conquer Gaul, Spain, Italy, &c. 18. Ancestors of the Ger|mans, 19.

O

• Oats and barley the only grain known in the north of Europe, 225.
• Observations on language, 255.
• Odin, the great God of the Sarmatae, 294. His hall, ibid. His image a log of wood, or a sword, 295. Married to Frea, or the earth, 297.
• Ogum, a species of stenography, 70.
• Orosius examined, 121.
• Ossian, why no stress is laid on his authori|ty, 156.
• Ottadini, 51.

P.

• Pallingenesia, 186.
• Pannonia, invasion of, 14.
• Paradise of the ancient Britons, 188. Placed in the western ocean, 189. Surrounded with tempest, ibid. De|scribed, 190. Different from that of Scandinavia, 189. Called Flath-Innis, or the Noble Island, ibid.
• Party-coloured garments, the universal taste among the Celtic nations, 229.
• Pelasgi, the first who settled in fixed a|bodes, 7. They seize on the coast of Ita|ly, ibid. Chased from Peloponnesus, 182.
• Pertinax repels the Sarmatae, 287.
• Peucini, 286.
• Philosophy, first among the northern na|tions, 183.
• Pherecydes, 180.
• Phoceans, build Massilia, 8. Introduce agriculture in Gaul, ibid.
• Poetry, 209. Its effect on the character of the ancient Britons, 212, 214.
• Polygamy used by the Sarmatae, 285.
• Pomponius Mela, his character of the Irish. 63.
• Porphyrius mentions, for the first time, the Scots, 92.
• Printedlinen used by the ancient British wo|men, 229. By the Spanish women, 231.
• Providence believed by the Celtae, 165.
• Psalter Cashel, the oldest record of Irish transactions, 61.
• ...

• ... Ptolemy mentions the Saxons for the first time, 150.—Pythagoras, 181.

R.

• Re, 168.
• Reflections on the history of ancient Bri|tain, 4. On the invasions of the north|ern Sarmatae, II. On the northern nations in general, 15. On Irish an|tiquities, 75. On Scottish antiquities, 94. On religion, 160. On the origin of government, 242. On the fall of the Romans, 275.
• Religion of the ancient British nations, 157. Subject to corruption, 163. Re|mark on religion. 160. Religion of the Anglo-Saxons, 294.—Reuda, 126.
• Representation, its origin, 249.
• Rinnac, its etymon, 168.—Rhetia, 17.
• Robbery, beyond the limits of the state not infamous, 251.
• Romans, established not their own lan|guage in their conquests, 256. In some measure the same with the Gaël, 257. Their origin, 264. Derive in part their language from the Celtae, 265, Reflections on their fall, 275. In what different from other monar|chies, 276. The permanency of their empire, ibid. Did not depend on the fate of their princes, 277. The ex|tension of the freedom of the city, 278. The debility of the provinces, 279. And of the Army, ibid. The removal of the seat of government,

• 280. Gives the finishing stroke to their empire, 281.
• Route, the same with Dalriada, 130.

S.

• Sagum described, 230.
• Sarmatae, their dominions, 288. They cross the Baltic, 13. Settle between the Vistula and the Drave, ibid. Low stature when compared to the Celtae, 219. Their want of neatness, 232. General reflections on them, 282. Their obscurity, 283. Their charac|ter, 284. Their irruption into the South, 287.
• Saxons, the most unmixed branch of the Sarmatae, 15. Their remote antiqui|ties obscure, 273. Their origin, 291. The same with the Angli, ibid. Mentioned first by Ptolemy, ibid. Their depredations, ibid. Possess by degrees the whole shore of the Ger|man ocean, 292. Their religion, 294. Their form of government, 301.
• Scandinavians, their dominions, 6. Their origin, ibid. Ancestors of the Ger|mans, 19. Of the English and some of the Scots, ibid.
• Sclavonic language, 17, 19, 20.
• Scordisci, 259.
• Scottia first mentioned by a bishop of Can|terbury, 121.
• Scots, 40. Their history obscure, 41. Destitute of domestic records, 43. Their origin, 46. Descended from the

• Gauls, ibid. Formed into a nation, 48. Positive proofs of their Caledonian extract, 151.—Segestes, 91.
• Selgovae, 51.—Senachies, 211.
• Severus, arrives in Britain, 42. His ex|pedition into Caledonia, 104.
• Ships of the ancient Britons described, 238. Manner of navigating them, ib.
• Shoes of the ancient Britons, 230.
• Sicambri transplanted into Gaul, 91.
• Simplicity of the ancient Britons, 251.
• Silures, etymon of their name, 34. A branch of the Cimbri, ibid.
• Singing, a great amusement among the Celtae, 206.
• Slavi, the most obscure of the Barbarians who destroyed the Roman power, 16. They extend themselves to Peleponne|sus, ibid. And to Illyricum and Dal|matia, 17. Derive their origin from the Tartars of the North and East. ib.
• Soul, leaves all misery behind it in this world, 186. Visits at times this world, 194.—Stillingfleet confuted, 137.
• Strabo, his character of the Irish, 62.
• Subaltern intelligences, 166.
• Suevi transplanted into Gaul, 91.
• Suiones, a sea-faring people, 239.

T.

• Tacitus, Cornelius, his character of the Irish, 63.
• Tanais, the eastern boundary of the Celtae, 6.
• Taranis, 162.—Teutates, ibid.
• Teutoni, the etymon of their name, 13.

• Allies of the Cimbri, 14. Their grand expedition, ibid. The same with the Scandinavian Sarmatae, ibid.
• Teutonic language, 20.
• Thales first broached the immortality of the soul in Greece, 180.
• Theocracy, a species of, among the Cel|tae, 253.
• Thor, the same with Odin, 296.
• Thule, 115—239. The same with Ice|land, ibid.
• Tigernach, an Irish writer, 131.
• Tirochan, writer of the life of St. Pa|trick, 66.
• Towns of the ancient Britons, 237.

V.

• Vaccaei, the most cultivated of the Spa|niards, 79.
• Valentia, province of, 119.
• Valhalla, 295.
• Vandals, their origin, 13—287. En|deavour to break into Pannonia, 14. Extend their conquests to Spain, Italy, and Africa, 15. The principals in the Scandinavian migration, 289.
• Vecturiones, 150.—Vellabori, 84.
• Venedi, 286.
• Vistula divided the Celtae and Sarmatae, 6.
• Virius Lupus purchases peace of the Cale|donians, 103.—Ulpius Marcellus, 41.
• Umbri, 7. The most ancient inhabitants of Italy, 9. Were Gauls, ibid. An|cestors of the Tuscans and Sabines, ibid. And in part of the Romans, ib.
• ...

• ... Unity of God, 160.—Vortigern, 238.
• Usher archbishop, his arguments in sup|port of Bede, 130. Examined and confuted, 131.

W.

• War, the amusement as well as business of the ancient British nations, 251.
• Ware, Sir James, gives no credit to the pretensions of the old Irish to letters, 66.
• Welsh, their origin, 27.
• Witnesses engage in single combat, 253.
• Women, Celtic, their size, 218. Fair, blooming, and stately, ibid. Just and full in their proportions, ibid. Their character, ibid. High spirited, 219. Their amazing influence, ibid. Ad|mitted to public deliberations, 220. Divine honours paid to them in their life-time, ibid.
• Women, British, the ancient Britons fond of their goverment, 220. Female suc|cession, ibid. Beauty of the British women, 222. Their chastity, 223. Not given away in marriage till their twentieth year, ibid. Their cloathing. 228. Their dress described, 230. Wear chains of gold, 231.
• Wool, Spanish, very fine, 229. Coarse in Gaul, ibid.

Z.

• Zythus, water diluted with honey, 226.