Pedigrees, Power and Clanship

This book brings together the major writings of David Sellar (1941–2019) on the genealogies (pedigrees) claimed by some of the major clans of medieval Highland and Island Scotland, especially the descendants of their twelfth-century king Somerled. The claimed pedigrees in the medieval Gaelic 1467 manuscript and the Irish genealogies are critically analyzed in relation to each other, and their historical authenticity tested against other evidence, including the Gaelic or Norse quality of their re