A Viking Kilt!

[Dreadbelly]

If a kilted guy in dreads came thumping at my door demanding money, I'd politely offer him a lemonade and ask where he got the lovely kilt, what he uses to keep the frizzies away, you know, make conversation, and while he wasn't looking, smash him in the head with our cast-iron skillet yelling, "Say hello to my well-seasoned friend!!"

You have taught us well!

Back on topic- I've said it before- I'm in the 'no kilt appeared in a vaccuum' group, and even if the Vikings did have something that looked like kilts, they didn't call them kilts, and that makes all the difference.

Heck, if offered lemonade I'd just have to tell them you weren't home. Off on vacation somewhere, perhaps seeing the Fjords on some Viking holiday, off trying to find skirt wearing berserkers.

[Archangel]

Heck, if offered lemonade I'd just have to tell them you weren't home. Off on vacation somewhere, perhaps seeing the Fjords on some Viking holiday, off trying to find skirt wearing berserkers.

ooohyech, that is a scary picture the more I think of it.


(ps. I have some biker friends that have made money by sitting on their bikes on the street, revving away, while somebody else tried to collect a bill.)

(pps. actually, now that I think of it, my mother does that for the feds and courts, very scary.)

[flyv65]

Heck, if offered lemonade I'd just have to tell them you weren't home. Off on vacation somewhere, perhaps seeing the Fjords on some Viking holiday, off trying to find skirt wearing berserkers.

Fjords, eh?

"Come see the lovely fjords, the majestic moose (mind you, moose bites can be very nasty...)."

Bryan...a brief tip 'o the hat to Monty Python, and my apologies to the admins... :grin:

[Dreadbelly]

Fjords, eh?

"Come see the lovely fjords, the majestic moose (mind you, moose bites can be very nasty...)."

Bryan...a brief tip 'o the hat to Monty Python, and my apologies to the admins... :grin:

A moose once bit my sister...

[macwilkin]

Fjords, eh?

"Come see the lovely fjords, the majestic moose (mind you, moose bites can be very nasty...)."

Bryan...a brief tip 'o the hat to Monty Python, and my apologies to the admins... :grin:

"Hello...Polly Parrot? He's Dead!"

"Naw, he's just pining for the fjords!"

And now for something completely different...:mrgreen:

T.

[Dreadbelly]

"Hello...Polly Parrot? He's Dead!"

"Naw, he's just pining for the fjords!"

And now for something completely different...:mrgreen:

T.

This post has been brought to you by The Whizzo Chocolate Company.

Now with more lark's vomit in every bite.

[An t-Ileach]

My references make it clear that the vikings wore the tunic, as you stated, with trousers. They seem to have preferred trousers, sissies, adapting several comtemporary Eurasian styles. This, I surmise, evolved into ABBA.

Or, possibly A-Ha!

It may well be, to pick up on what someone else wrote, that the word "kilt" is from the Old Norse. It certainly isn't Gaelic, whether modern or Old Irish.

But let's not forget that the Lachlannaich established themselves in the Western Isles (in the old Kingdom of Dal Riada, centred on Islay) as the "Lordship of the Isles and the Kingodm of Man", and in Galloway and Man. A lot of Norse words found their way into Gaelic (actually fewer in Islay and Argyll than in Lewis).

But these Lachlannaich acculturated into Scots (Gaels). And so the clans of the Isles are a mixture of (largely) Norwegian Vikings and Dal Riadans, and residual Pictish elements (and some Strathclyde Welsh)... and who knows what else besides?

I am still convinced that the kilt is a Scots garb: not been dented yet.

[arrogcow]

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[Dreadbelly]

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[Archangel]

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Goon show, right?

or social commentary?