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THE HISTORIE OF SCOTLAND.
How the
hilandmen
we name.
The begin¬
ning of the
Peychtes,
and how
thay cam in
Albion.
no4 forsaik thair opinione); we, I say, because the mair
horrible places of the Realme thay occupie, cal thame
quha dwel in the montanis or the mountane people, thay
vse thair aide Irishe toung. Bot of the lies of orchnay,
sum ar Inglese, sum of the language of Norway, & 5
thay cheiflie the outmest lies of Scytland; In the tyme
of Beda, the speiche of the peychtes was * lykwyse in
the He, bot quhen the natione was put out, lykwyse
dekayed the 38 language, evin as quhen out of Ingland
was castne the Danes thair language in lyke maner ro
followet fast vpo/z thame. The fourth language is that
maist ancient of the aid Britan/ns, in quhilke sum
delytes of Cambrie & Cornewal. Bot in thir lattir
dayes, throuch the diligence and kair of kings, is sa
brocht to passe, that in the people is gretter constancie, 15
and truer cowcorde than was afore, and the aid britanwe
language in euerie place worne out, as we se, the Inglise
toung is leirned ower all. Now a few wordes how the
Peychtis first cam in Albion, and that al things may be
the cleirer, in few wordes we sal comprehend thame. 20
HOW THE PEYCHTIS FIRST IN ALBION DESCENDET.
Is evident that the peychtis f amang al the rest was
the Northiren people, bot sum haue the opinione that
thay war of the X farthest Scythia called now Denmark;
sum agane beleiue that thay ar of the Scythianis of
37 Agathyrsie. sum in lyke maner thinkes that thay war 25
of Hungre, and affirmes that out of that cuwtrey of Cim-
bria thay war chaste. Quhairfra saeuir thay cam, is
manifest that thay war a people baith ciuile & weirlie,
* “ hujus loco ”—in place of this—i.e., the Norwegian.
t “ inter omnes convenit”—it is agreed by all that the Piets were
a northern race.
J L. “citeriore”—the nearer Scythia.