Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The title of mormaor or mormaer designated one of the rulers of the seven provinces of Celtic Scotland, i.e. the part of the country north of the Forth and the Clyde. The name comes from two Gaelic words: mor (great) and maor (a steward or bailiff). The seven mormaorships, or original earldoms of Scotland, as they afterwards became, comprised: Angus Atholl with Gowrie Caithness with Sutherland Fife Mar with Buchan Moray with Ross Stratherne with Menteith. Compare the seven ancient kingdoms of the Picts. Original text from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.