(October 28, 2002) How We Loved The Romans (Scotland Celts)

Sunday Herald ^ | 10-28-2002 | Juliette Garside

[muawiyah]

Actually, England is only a small part of it. The Danelaw was certainly important.

In any case, all the territories occupied by the Angles and Saxons had previously been held by the Britons for many, many centuries.

[Cronos]

I knew that the Egyptians drank beer and the Persians drank wine, but I thought the production of whiskey in Scotland and Ireland began in prehistoric times. No?

I can't find a site, but you can read it in books on origins of liquors etc that Scotch was first brewed by monks, I'm not sure but I think it was first in Ireland, then brought across to Scotland, but it was first brewed by monks. The Irish invented whiskey when Irish monks first distilled their "Uisce Beatha" or "Water of Life" in the 6th century AD. The word "whiskey" is in fact from the Irish "Uisce" (pronounced "Iish-kee").The date is roughly the 6th century as legend has it that in the 6th Century a group of Irish monks journeyed to the Middle East and observed how the local people distilled perfume. On returning to Ireland, it is said, they created the 'Pot Still' based on their design.

[Cronos]

I think the Aryans were a shade darker than the Semitic people ~ as they are today!

Germans and Persians and most Europeans darker than Israelies and Arabs??

[Savage Beast]

I don't know, but I'd certainly like to give it the taste test!

[SunkenCiv]

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[blam]

Interesting thread...bump.

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