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Updated: June 9, 2025
From the same cause the poet of sea-faring has more occasion to speak of the Phoenicians, great sea-farers, than the poet of the Trojan leaguer. But in what sense? Many ploughs were at work at once on a Scottish runrig field, and each farmer had his own strip on several common fields, but each farmer held by rent, or by rent and services, from the laird.
But does any one seriously suppose that the knightly class of the Iliad, the chariot-driving gentlemen, held no more land legally or by permitted custom than the two Homeric swains who vituperate each other across a baulk about the right to a few feet of a strip of a runrig field?
Gomme one of the very few English scholars who have paid attention to the subject shows in his work that many traces of the communal possession of the soil are found in Scotland, "runrig" tenancy having been maintained in Forfarshire up to 1813, while in certain villages of Inverness the custom was, up to 1801, to plough the land for the whole community, without leaving any boundaries, and to allot it after the ploughing was done.
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