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Excerpt from Guide to Northern Archaeology: By the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, Edited for the Use of English Readers Angles, Jutes, and other inhabitants of the North took pos session of, and settled in, not only parts of England, but also the Scotland of our days at all events that portion of an cient' Northumberland, which is now considered as part of the kingdom of Scotland. The connexion of Scandinavia with Ca ledonia, however, is undoubtedly much older than the conquest of England by the anglo-saxons. Before that event took place, the Scandinavians had possessed themselves of a considerable part of the lowlands of Scotland, where they probably were most generally known by the name of Picts. Agreeably to the most ancient heroic poems of the Scottish Highlands (in elu cidating which much light is to be obtained from Northern sources) the descents of the Northmen in Scotland, before they got a firm footing there, were chicfiy made from the Orkneys, which from time immemorial seem to have been inhabited by people of Scandinavian origin. A great portion of the Picts were for a length of time held in subjection by the monarchs of Northumberland, of anglo-saxon or Northern origin. Dr. John Jamieson's masterly philological investigations have proved, that the ancient Lowland Scotch and generally speaking the col loquial dialect of Scotland is more frequently to be traced to Northern, than to anglo-saxon sources. Mr. Robert Ia mieson has proved a similar result, in respect to the remark able affinity both of language'and poetry, which, prevails be tween the Scottish and Danish Ballads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.