I think they're cadets too, their height and youthful looks suggest mid teens.

It's highly unlikely Cornish was being spoken in the 1830s. The language is considered to have died out in the second half of the 18th century. Would Welsh miners have spoken Welsh while working?...

Wasn't poaching restricted to game animals? I'm also not sure if the same laws applied in the Highlands as elsewhere. What I was referring to though was trapping smaller animals like small birds and...

I recall reading that your average highlander was small but wiry, likely as a result of such an impoverished diet. There would have been more animals available back then though as there were many...

That would be very convenient if true as it might solve the mystery of who the Attecotti were. The name possibly derives from Aithechthuatha, which referred to vassal people in Ireland. Attecotti...

There's an anecdote from the slavery era where some slaves escaped. The description of them included the fact they spoke no English, only Gaelic. Perhaps it relates to the same plantation or even...

He's referring to the Battle of Nectansmere in the 7th century where the Anglians were defeated, but this was a century and a half before the Scots and Picts unified (how ever that happened).
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The lowlands were easily accessible to development during the Middle Ages and that development was carried out by Europeans and English. Once the principal trade towns were English speaking then...

Early antiquarians from at least the late 19th century had associated the lands of Clan MacEacharn with the region the Epidii tribe were given on Ptolemy's ancient map. It's been noted over the years...

Sorry, but in the grand scheme of things it was a non-event. I don't know why it gets the press it does, far more were killed in the battles and persecutions of that era and Glencoe was just one....

Yes it is more Scottish as it originated there. Alexander is what? Roman, English from Alexandros? Wherever it came from it didn't originate in Scotland but Alasdair did.

I was looking at a couple of different translations of something recently. One translation used gu lèir and the other air fad. What's the difference since they both seem to mean the same thing?
The...

You have to take the lawyer approach which is to select the thing closest even if it seems over the top like claiming a fraudulent auction or whatever term they use. This then forces the seller to...

There is no especial genetic link between Galicia and the British Isles, I believe that is between the British Isles and the Basques. There is a general link between the Isles and the western coast...

Most Scots and Irish don't speak Gaelic which is why those countries are not Celtic (though they are home to Celtic cultures), particularly Scotland which has strong competing Germanic cultural...

"But imagining that this was one "nation" of cultural or political unity"

As I don't know anyone who has ever said that they were unified politically and certainly not here, that's what's referred...

Nah, we're on fairly solid ground when it comes to recognising that there was a common culture that stretched from Britain, across France, southern Germany and into the Balkans. Same language, same...

Those statues are interesting and it would be great to know what they originally represented.
They're similar in style to the warriors on the Bormio stele from Lombardy which dates to the 5th...

Thanks for the replies, it's interesting to see that the modern region corresponds to the borders of an ancient kingdom despite all the cultural changes over the millenia.

Can anyone please tell me where the name for Angus comes from? It was originally Forfarshire but got a name change. I can't find anything about why the name Angus was chosen.

Not sure what's in it, but there is a graphic novel in gaidhlig:

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It's also available in English and...

People forget that gaelic was being spoken in places like Aberdeenshire at this time. The last native speaker of the local dialect died in the 1980s. Whatever the Picts spoke originally, the Gaelic...

Ignoring the St Andrew's cross at the top of the page...

She doesn't seem to have had much of a following in the Gaelic parts of Scotland. She was more an agent of anglicising the court and church.

My knowledge is limited to before the English conquered the region and brought in planters from Britain. I don't know what the McDonnells did during the Elizabethan period, civil war etc. I have a...

McDonnells didn't control Antrim, they controlled a smallish coastal strip made up of several glens. They were part of a larger region that included Islay where the Clan seat was and Kintyre, both in...