Alba go Bragh!
GGG Ping.
Come on, mon, what did he say about haggis?
Dammit. Now this after checking the family history at the website of the Old Bailey proceedings and finding out what a bunch of crooks my ancestors were!
“When the legend becomes fact,print the legend.”
From “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence”.
Best not go after William Wallace
Whether or not Scottish history is mythical, I still think England still deserves to be independent from them!
PS: No way did the Scots antedate the Picts! In fact, there were Angles in what is now Scotland before the Scots arrived!
I see “revisionist” history isn’t just an American problem.
This can’t be true. We all know that oral tradition is the only pure form of history and it cannot be refuted by silly historical evidence.
Our own Native Americans clearly demonstrate that whatever those who claim to be Native American may claim that their ancestors knew, felt, or believed is absolute fact and is incapable of nullification by racist critics.
As a descendant of Scots, I hereby declare that all of these myths are true, have always been true, and will forever be true, until we decide that they are inconvenient, in which case they will no longer be true. Moreover, we Scots are individually and collectively entitled to reparations, with interest, for everything that has been visited upon us or might have been visted upon us had we been paying attention.
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Thanks Blam.In the book, Trevor-Roper claims that Scotland’s literary and political traditions, which claim to date back to the Roman invasion of Scotland in the first century AD, are in fact based on myth and were largely invented in the 18th century... Scots are also accused of fabricating their own literary tradition, culminating in the publication of The Works of Ossian. These were claimed to have been translated from ancient sources in Gaelic about the lives of Celtic heroes, but have long been suspected of being a figment of the imagination of James Macpherson, the 18th-century Scottish poet who claimed to have translated them.I don't think there are many who regard Ossian as anything but a recent invention; I don't doubt that this isn't a unique approach, though. :') |
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Never trust anyone who writes a book that is not to be published until five years after his death.
Don’t know who invented pants put they are a very bad idea. Kilts are so sensible given the First Law of Human Male Thermo-Dynamics. That being give your b**ls some air.
Ping!
Great Scot!