The Highlanders of Scotland - Clan Strachan Society

;8 THE HIGHLANDERS [part i
English, quiet possession of the throne of Scotland, which
his own po\\-er ctnd talents enabled him to preserve during
the remainder of his life. He was prevented, apparently by
the return of Thorfinn, from attempting to recover any part
of the northern districts which the Norwegian earl had sub-
jugated, and consequently his territories consisted only of
those southern districts which Macbeth had acquired by the
defeat of his father Duncan.
P^rom the accession of Malcolm Kenmore to the death of
Thorfinn, which took place six years after, the state of Scotland
remained unaltered, and the country exhibited the remarkable
spectacle of a Gaelic population, one half of which obeyed the
rule of a Norwegian earl, while the other half was subdued by a
prince of their own race at the head of a Saxon arm} .