Lexicographical Neighbors of Mormaors
Literary usage of Mormaors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Clan Donald by Angus Macdonald (1896)
"... their mormaors endured as part of the national Celtic system, until it gave
way in the eleventh and twelfth centuries before the establishment of a ..."
2. The Dictionary of English History edited by Sidney Low, Frederick Sanders Pulling (1896)
"In the Celtic kingdom north of the Firths, where the clan system prevailed, tho
country was divided into vaguely delined districts, whose several mormaors ..."
3. The Highlanders of Scotland by William Forbes Skene (1902)
"... points rather to a Moray connection, and possibly a relationship, as far as
Mackintosh is concerned, with the family of Macbeth—the mormaors of Moray. ..."
4. A History of the Scottish Highlands, Highland Clans and Highland Regiments by Sir John Scott Keltie, John Wilson, Thomas Maclauchlan (1875)
"The clans were the fragments of the old Celtic tribes, whose mormaors had been
destroyed, each tribe dividing into a number of clans. ..."
5. Works by Irish Archaeological and Celtic Society, William Hewson, George Gulliver, Sydenham Society (1857)
"... Fada were descended the ancient mormaors, or Stewards, of Moray, the senior
representatives of the race. From him also came the powerful families of the ..."
6. Notes on Dignities in the Peerage of Scotland which are Dormant Or which by William Oxenham Hewlett (1882)
"Strathern was one of the original seven Provinces or Territorial Earldoms of
Scotland and the Lords of it, whether styled mormaors or Earls of Strathern, ..."
7. Norman Britain by William Hunt (1884)
"... of a vigorous assertion of the royal authority, and he accordingly demanded
from the northern mormaors a submission which they were unused to make. ..."
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