[donmeaker]

I like Robert E. Howard’s take on it. Part of the Bran Mac Morn series.

[infidel29]

one for the list

[aruanan]

Did Boudicca's curse cause 6,000 of Rome's fiercest warriors to vanish without trace?

Any way of retooling that curse for today's Washington?

[aruanan]

The Eagle Of The Ninth

This was also the title of a very good book by Rosemary Sutcliff. Others that I've read include Dawn Wind, The Lantern Bearers, The Silver Branch, Heather, Oak, and Olive, Tristan and Iseult, and Warrior Scarlet.

[Twotone]

Great article! I visited the Cairngorms last October...very pretty area.

[Little Pig]

Probably not *that* mysterious. There are a lot of peat bogs in Scotland, and if you’re quick and have a lot of help, legionaries are just as easy to stab in their sleep as anyone else. Wiping out a legion over a week up in the Scottish hinterlands would have been far too quick to get a message to Rome for help. There may even have been such a message, but it may have run afoul of bandits on the way, or some other traveling mishap.

[mware]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5bxT-j9UOQ

[Verginius Rufus]

Boudicca was the widow of Prasutagus, the king of the Iceni, a tribe in East Anglia. Tacitus tells of her under the year A.D. 61 (Annals XIV, chapters 31ff.). Hadrian's Wall is in northern England near the present-day border with Scotland and wasn't built until about 60 years later.

[tet68]

A lesson from the article, one Obama and his minions should
keep in mind.

‘When the oppressed rise up against cruel oppressors, restraint is rare.’

[Condor51]

After a quick read on this, I think The Ninth Legion became Hippies, deserted en masse and went to Canada. Once there, they lived in communes and sat around smoking dope.

Or... they were all beamed up by Space Aliens. Just like with the Knights Templars who all disappeared in Oct of 1307.

[kalee]

Britain herself has a mysterious vanished battalion. It happened at Gallipoli during WWI.

The story of that vanished battalion, said Winston Churchill in 1919, was “the greatest unsolved mystery of this century”

http://user.online.be/~snelders/sand.htm

[wildbill]

Didn’t we have a thread recently that stated that the red-hair gene was part of the makeup of the Neanderthal.

That would make the Scots that fought the Romans and the English the most direct descendants of the ancient clans of the Neandethals. No wonder they seemed different to the Romans.

Or maybe not.