Quote Originally Posted by Doc Hudson
If you accuse me of simply pouring gas on the fire, I really can't deny it. But here goes anyway.

Not that I give their idea much more credence than you do, Jarls of Lochlann attributes their kilt designs to Viking influence, and mention that the very word kilt comes from the Old Norse kjalt. http://www.thejarlsoflochlann.com/Kilts/special.html

Also at Jarls of Lochlann, they offer for sale a Book/CD_Rom set of Viking designs described as:
The cover is illustrated with some of the designs, the one at the bottom, left of center is a warrior wearing some sort of skirt-like garment. (Though to tell the truth, the image looks more like a Mayan or Aztec carving to me rather than a Scandinavian.)

Let's face it, every culture had a skirt-like garment for men at some point in time. The kilt as we know it today is of Scottish origin, but we can not be certain of it's ancestry. So if you are going to fault Motorman's scholarship, you will have to challenge the assertation of Jarls of Lochlann as well.

Care to give it a whirl?
I'm easy, I can fault them, what do you want me to do now?
What standard are you looking for in a historical discussion? We are not likely to conjure up a long dead viking who will state, "I never wore a skirt but my wife wears a pleated dress"

Don't know how far the mod will let us go off-topic, but if I remember from this morning, it's now on another thread.

The cd-rom is nice, my wife uses the Celtic one for her writing, but that only establishes cultural migration. Same as the word itself, basically any word that has k or an sk start is from Viking. Nobody's even sure where the word Viking comes from, one position is that it is the same root as by in by-law.

What was the topic again? Oh, yeah, noble barbarians or civilized wimp: Rousseau covered it years ago.