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The Picts and Preceltic Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Hyde Clarke
Affiliation:
Vice-President Anthropological Institute

Extract

This paper will embrace the old question of the Picts in Scotland which has been so much discussed, and also the newer question of the inhabitants of Britain preceding the Celtic invasion of these islands which has already been brought by me before the Society. This newer subject now meets with more attention on the part of historians and other men of science.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1886

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References

page 245 note 1 Clarke, Hyde, The Early History of the Mediterranean Populations, illustrated from Autonomous Coins, &c. 1882Google Scholar.

page 246 note 1 The Iberian and Belgian Influence and Epochs in Britain, by Clarke, Hyde, read before the Royal Historical Society, 1883, pp. 13, 14Google Scholar.

page 246 note 2 Iberian Influence, pp. 13, 14.

page 247 note 1 Iberian Influence, p. 9.

page 248 note 1 See Skene, , The Highlanders of Scotland, vol. i. Pictish Chronicles, cii.Google Scholar; Celtic Britain, vol. i., p. 233.

page 250 note 1 Tai Kún was an emperor of China about 500 of the Christian Era. He succeeded Thang. Tai Kún is capable of a Chinese interpretation, but what is its true class is unknown to me.

page 252 note 1 Clarke, Hyde, Iberian Influence, p. 19Google Scholar.

page 253 note 1 Clarke, Hyde, Iberian and Belgian Influence, p. 35Google Scholar.

page 253 note 2 Compare as to Æschylus, &c, N and Q, current volume, pp. 101, 121.

page 253 note 3 See afterwards the observations of Mr. Hector MacLean.

page 255 note 1 Clarke, Hyde, Iberian and Belgian Influence, p. 29Google Scholar; Early History of the Mediterranean Populations, p. 19.

page 255 note 2 See my paper on Atlantis, read before the Royal Historical Society in 1885; N and Q as before, pp. 101, 121.

page 256 note 1 Pearson, C. H., History of England, vol. i., p. 469Google Scholar.

page 256 note 2 In this work Jacob's serving Laban for his two daughters is taken as a record of the old system. The Singhalese have a practice that a daughter shall be served for before being taken as a wife. (See observations of Tylor, E. B. in Academy, 1885. No. 691. p. 67.)Google Scholar

page 257 note 1 Dr. Skene gave more weight to Mr. McLennan's system, but it is clear enough that the marriage institution of the Pictish princess was a monogamous marriage and a recognised paternity.

page 259 note 1 With regard to the extent of the matriarchal system among the Semites, we have as yet but little evidence. The eminent scholar Mr. J. W. Redhouse, is an opponent. There is this likewise to be said on his side historically, that the Semites, like the Aryans, had much to do with supplanting the old institutions and introducing male succession.

page 264 note 1 This is attested by the coins, on which there are several emblems, each having the same sound, but a different meaning.

page 266 note 1 The institutions of the Hellenes were not so purely Aryan as has been believed; nor can they always be explained by supposed Aryan examples. On the contrary, they must often receive their elucidation from Turanian sources. A very good illustration will be found in a paper read before the Anthropological Institute in 1884 on the tribal system of Athens, where the co-operation of a classical scholar and of a missionary effectively explained a tangled question, which had baffled commentators.

page 267 note 1 Mr. MacLean points out to me that the Brude who was king of the Northern Picts in the time of St. Columba was a son of the king of the Britons of Strathclyde.

page 267 note 2 Skene, , Celtic Scotland, vol. i. pp. 328Google Scholar, 329.

page 268 note 1 See my Early History of the Mediterranean Populations.

page 272 note 1 Mr. Blind calls attention, among many other observations, to the resemblance of the name of the Carians (whom he treats as Germani) to the Carini of Germania.

page 272 note 2 Clarke, Hyde, ‘The Varini of Tacitus,’ Ethnological Journal, read 02 25, 1868, p. 9Google Scholar, and quoted also in the paper in the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society.