Posted on 06/28/2009 6:41:21 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Medieval Scottish soldiers fought wearing bright yellow war shirts dyed in horse urine rather than the tartan plaid depicted in the film Braveheart, according to new research.
Historian Fergus Cannan states that the Scots armies who fought in battles like Bannockburn, and Flodden Field would have looked very different to the way they have traditionally been depicted.
Instead of kilts, he said they wore saffron-coloured tunics called "leine croich" and used a range of ingredients to get the boldest possible colours.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Braveheart was full of inaccuracies, but it was still a good film.
Now, the kilt was only for day-to-day wear. In battle, we donned a full-length ball gown covered in sequins!
And if any of obama's ancestors "fought", it was probably in clothes stained with their own urine.
Since Fruit of the Loom was still years away during the time of Sterling bridge and Bannockburn, if I was going into battle where there was going to be arrows and swords, I’d probably prefer the tunic over the kilt also.
It fell on a day, a bonny summer day,
When the corn was ripe and yellow,
That there fell oot a great dispute
Between Argyle aye and Airlie.
Lady Margaret looked o’er yon high castle wall,
And O but she sighed sairly.
She saw Argyle and a’ his men
Come to plunder the bonny hoose o’ Airlie.
“Come doun, come doun Lady Margaret,” he said.
“Come doun and kiss me fairly
Or gin the morning’s clear daylight
I willna leave a standing stane in Airlie.”
“I’ll no come doun, ye false Argyll,
Nor will I kiss thee fairly.
I wouldnae kiss the false Argyle
Though you wouldna leave a standin’ stane in Airlie.”
“For if my gude lord had been at hame,
As he’s awa’ wi’ Chairlie,
There wouldnae come a Campbell frae Argyle
Dare trod upon the bonny green o’ Airlie.”
“For I hae bore him seven bonny sons,
The eighth yin has never seen his daddy
But if I had as mony ower again
They would all be men for Chairlie.”
But poor Lady Margaret was forced to come doun
And O but she sighed sairly
For their in front o’ all his men
She was ravished on the bowlin’ green o’ Airlie.
“Draw your dirks, draw your dirks,” cried the brave Locheil.
“Unsheath your sword,” cried Chairlie,
“We’ll kindle sic a lowe roond the false Argyle,
And licht it wi’ a spark oot o’ Airlie.”
“And if any of 0bama’s ancestors ‘fought’, it was probably in clothes stained with their own urine.”
ROFLMAO! :)
So what you’re saying is that a kilt could get you kilt?
LOL
Depends.
Men in kilts sexy!
Men is urine stained shirts NOT sexy!
Well, that’s just a pisser.
TMI...
Interesting
I have no clue what that is, but it is definitely NOT sexy. LOL
Those Scotsmen were badass. They wore horse urine. Arrrr!
I always thought it interesting that the two prettiest girls in my high school (actually I have never seen a prettier girl in my 62 years than one of them) were named Campbell and McDonald and they were best friends.
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