To: muawiyah
The English were just then learning how to pick lice out of their hair back in Denmark, Saxony and other as of then un-named or un-known barbarian heartlands!
Well, maybe not quite so primitive, but you are correct, the ones in the south were Britons, many of whom moved into Cornwall or Wales or Britanny or Galicia.
interesting bit about hte Sctos -- they were an Irish people hwo moved in only after the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain. This was in opposition to the Hibernians who had invaded Ireland centuries earlier. Until the 6th century, Scotia was really Ireland. Scot means an adventurer or something similar in Irish (someone help me out here), not really a tribe. So, until the 7th century, Alba or modern day Scotland was Scotia Minor as opposed to Scotia Major (modern day IReland)
24 posted on
02/16/2004 8:16:58 AM PST by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Cronos
Scota and Mil ~ The Great Goddess and Mankind! And where do these two creatures get together? Why, Scotia!
Mil was in the habit of building "watch towers. The Milesian "tower" at Brigantia (in Carvajal on the NW Coast of Spain) is rather famous. It pre-dates the arrival of the Phoenicians, and was so ancient that when the Romans arrived they had to rebuild it.
Today's Scotland was created by a mix of Milesian Irishmen and Scandinavian Vikings. This mix is reflected quite well in "MacBeth". The King was a Scot, but his wife was the daughter of a Viking King.
31 posted on
02/16/2004 8:46:10 AM PST by
muawiyah
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