Letters from high latitudes : being some account of a voyage, in 1856, in the schooner yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Mayen, and Spitzbergen / by Lord Dufferin.
Year: 1873
Type: book
Abstract: WARDS 24O [III.honours of his own heirless house round the coronet of his slain foeman's descendant ;how Sir Neill at Bannockburn fought side by side with the Bruce whose sister he had married ; how Colin, the first Earl, wooed and won the Lady Isabel, sprung from the race of Somerled, Lord of the Isles, thus adding the galleys of Lorn to the blazonry of Argyll ;how the next Earl died at Flodden, and his successor fought not less disastrously at Pinkie ;how Archibald, fifth Earl, whose wife was at supper with the Queen, her half-sister, w T hen Rizzio was murdered, fell on the field of Langside, smitten not by the hand of the enemy, but by the finger of God ; how Colin, Earl and boy-General at fifteen
Source: J. Murray eBooks
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2485257518