Презентация на тему Clans and tartans

meant crosswise
the Scottish Gaelic “tarsuinn” meaning across.

it could simply mean cloth, from the old French “tartaine”
Long before there were individual Scottish clans and tartans, the Celts loved bright colors and patterned cloth. Later the Scots incorporated this love for color into a unique plaid cloth

The origin

with Highlanders and clan loyalty that their wearing was

banned after the defeat at Culloden until 1782

permitted, there developed a keen interest in reestablishing or

reinventing family tartans, beginning with the Highlanders and later spreading to all of Scotland

Gaelic word "clann" meaning the children, offspring or descendants.

!!!Not all surnames in Scotland or even in the Highlands became "clans“
There is no hard and fast rule but a "clan" is usually of a sufficient size to have established a territory and is likely to have a clan chief.

the Origin of the Word "Clan

hundreds of years, was essentially destroyed after the Jacobite

Uprisingin 1745/46 when many clans supported the claim of Prince Charles Edward Stewart to the throne of the United Kingdom

of a the larger clans would often obtain the

protection of their more powerful neighbours, but without becoming fully absorbed.

of". Over the centuries it has been written as

Mac or Mc or even M' - the last version is more common in Ireland

What is the Difference Between "Mac" and "Mc" and "M'"?