FOOTNOTES:
[94] In this discussion the province of Lothian is not included.
[95] Ri Mortuath is an Irish term. We find, more usually, in Scotland, the Mormaer.
[96] Op. cit., vol. i, p. 254.
[97] History of Scotland, vol. i, pp. 135-6.
[98] Celtic Scotland, vol. iii, pp. 303, 309.
[99] Celtic Scotland, vol. iii, p. 368.
[100] It should of course be recollected that the Gaelic tongue must have persisted in the vernacular speech of the Lowlands long after we lose all traces of it as a literary language.