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I think they're cadets too, their height and youthful looks suggest mid teens.
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12th September 19, 06:28 PM
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?...
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11th February 19, 10:50 PM
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...
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10th February 19, 12:39 PM
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...
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10th January 19, 03:56 PM
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...
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16th September 18, 03:34 AM
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...
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16th September 18, 03:25 AM
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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9th September 18, 06:40 PM
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...
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9th September 18, 03:52 AM
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...
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20th February 18, 03:09 PM
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....
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20th January 18, 04:20 PM
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.
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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...
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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...
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28th December 17, 12:37 PM
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...
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27th December 17, 12:29 PM
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...
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24th December 17, 05:01 AM
"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...
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22nd December 17, 03:18 PM
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...
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19th December 17, 03:29 PM
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...
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11th December 17, 10:38 AM
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.
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10th December 17, 05:19 PM
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.
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8th December 17, 11:23 PM
Not sure what's in it, but there is a graphic novel in gaidhlig:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51JCsFH3R7L._SX336_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
It's also available in English and...
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15th November 17, 06:52 PM
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...
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15th November 17, 06:15 PM
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.
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8th November 17, 10:26 PM
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...
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8th November 17, 02:20 PM
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...
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