Willie is not amused!
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How true!
The kilt not invented until the 19th century? Somebody should have told Mel Gibson. William Wallace and all his braveheart lads are in kilts. The Irish too.
I remember reading that after the Battle of Culloden in the early 1700’s the Georges instituted ferocious laws against the Scots, including bans on traditional dress and clan tartans.
I suggest that England ALSO has its “legends” that have become part of English tradition, e.g. Robin Hood, “King” Arthur, Horatio Hornblower, Willikin, etc. etc.
The Scots have been more sinned against than sinners in Anglo-Scottish relationships going back to the time of Edward I and before.
But I guess as Americans we are fortunate Englishmen like this “gentleman” made things so rough for the Scots and later Scots-Irish. It helped create some of our most productive and patriotic immigrants in the 1700s.
Best thing posted all day!
Roper missed the point of the Declaration of Arbroath.
No one believes that 14th century Scotland had democracy in the modern sense, however the point is that the rights of Scots re the monarchy as enshrined in that famous document were a huge political bomb in medieval Europe. AND the notion of being King of Scots (ie a monarch being guardian of a people, not a land) was also a huge step forward.
Here is a summery of the most ancient sample of "the cloth" taken from Mummies from the Tarim Basin,woven of Europen sheeps wool as tested, who almost all had the celtic blood marker, "Type O".
They had travelled from Europe to Urumchi.
"As to the mysteries initially posed by Caucasian mummies, the author deduces from a wonderful cat's cradle of evidence that in the steppes north of the Black Sea two groups of the Indo-European population split off, one going west and the other east. This took place not earlier than 4000 B.C., by which time the wild, but edible, hairy sheep had been inbred to become the doubly useful woolly sheep. Because of this dual diaspora the plaid twill clothing on some of the Caucasian mummies bears an uncanny resemblance to its contemporary central European counterpart, which was later carried west to the British Isles."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_2_156/ai_55487308
http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=55916
http://books.google.com/books?id=gZ6ODFrQkOgC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=Lou+Lan+Type+O+blood&source=web&ots=bTKFetMGq3&sig=YktfIEsHKYTN8nrkRas39Ly0k7I&hl=en#PPP1,M1
FYI: For a few decades after the ‘45 (1745) wearing the kilt or claymore was illegal, as was the playing of the bagpipes.
(...some time later...)
[some busybody] Source please.
[’Civ] Up yours.
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