Abthain
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use dmy dates Abthain (or abthane) is an English or Lowland Scots form of the middle-Latin word Script error: No such module "Lang". (Gaelic Script error: No such module "Lang".), meaning abbacy. The exact sense of the word being lost, it was presumed to denote some ancient dignity, the holder of which was called Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang"..
William Forbes Skene[1] holds that the correct meaning of Script error: No such module "Lang". (or Script error: No such module "Lang".) is not "abbot" or "over-thane", but "abbey" or "monastery". The word has special reference to the territories of the churches and monasteries founded by the old Celtic or Columban monks, mostly between the mountain chain of the Mounth and the Firth of Forth. Skene recommended the use of the words Script error: No such module "Lang". or Script error: No such module "Lang"..
Many of these Script error: No such module "Lang". passed into the hands of laymen, and were transmitted from father to son. They paid certain ecclesiastical tributes, and seem to have closely resembled the termonn lands of the early Irish Church.
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- ↑ Historians of Scotland, IV; Fordun, II, 413.
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