Author: Sir Walter Scott

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2012-05-18

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781236143556

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. 1885 Excerpt: ...forces of double the number. Graham was named 'the bloody Claverhouse' by the Covenanters, for his bitter persecution of them. 26. Dale, a narrow valley. The For pathless marsh, and mountain cell, The peasant left his lowly shed. The frightened flocks and herds were pent 30 Beneath the peel's rude battlement; And maids and matrons dropped the tear, While ready warriors seized the spear. From Branksome's towers, the watchman's eye Dun wreaths of distant smoke can spy, 35 Which, curling in the rising sun, Showed southern ravage was begun. Now loud the heedful gate-ward cried--'Prepare ye all for blows and blood! Watt Tinlinn, from the Liddel-side, Comes wading through the flood. Full oft the Tynedale snatchers knock At his lone gate, and prove the lock; 40 word, of Scandinavian origin, occurs in the names of places in the south of Scotland and the north of England, where the Scandinavians of old had settlements, as lAddzsdale, Rydal, Kendal: allied to Celtic dail and dol; Ger. thal, with the original meaning of'cleft.' In Celtic place-names it is generally prefixed, as in Dalkeith, Dalbeattie, DolgeMy. Fell, a barren hill. It is also of Scandinavian origin, and is found in the names of summits in those districts where dale occurs, as in Hart/fc// (whence Clydesdale, Tweeddale, and Annandale diverge), Carter Fell, Sca/ell, &c. 28, 29. On the approach of an English.army, the Border peasantry usually took refuge in the morasses, or in rock caves hewn in the most secluded and dangerous places. Some of these caves are still to be found in the precipitous banks of the Teviot and its tributary streams. 30. Pent, thepa.p. of pen, to shut up. 31. The peel's rude battlement. Peel, a Border tower. Battlement, the parapet of a fortification. 38. Gate-ward, the guardi...