Irish Kilt?

[Peter Crowe]

Magnusson was a journalist by trade, but I can't say I've ever seen any major criticism of his research skills or citations. Yes, opinion is always present in history, but any historian worth their salt would say that opinions should always be based on primary sources.

T.

Indeed Todd, that is my take on the subject (regarding both Magnus Magnusson and the primacy of primary source evidence). Although I am a graduate in Scottish History, I was interested in early modern Scotland and mostly studied the period from 1500-1800. I am not knowledgeable enough about the ethnic make up and/or the migratory patterns of Scotland in the first thousand years of the Common Era to contradict what has been stated by either MacSpadger or fcgeil.

What I briefly remember about that period from the survey course 'Scottish History 1' (c. 800 CE to 1707 CE) at Glasgow University was that the evidence pointed to two way traffic in trade, human migration and cultural cross-pollination between the north-east of Ireland (primarily Antrim, but even as far west as Donegal) and the western sea board of Scotland especially from Galloway to Argyll, and from much earlier than the formation of Dal Riata.