Too Much Knowledge Disruptive To My Stereotypes

[piperdbh]

As I'm sure most of you will agree, whether they came from Europe or Africa or Asia or anywhere else, most of us come from a long line of people.

[sathor]

You didn't mention the Romans. Bloody Roman. They made it to Brittan, and you know some freaked out early Brits (I forget what 'tribe' they would have been) probably fled north, and intermarried, and I'm sure some Romans left some, um, souvenirs, when they left. And those Romans really liked to mix things up....

I doubt if anyone could claim a pure-blooded succession as the whole history of the human race has been founded upon migration and conquest and subsequent colonisation and America is just one of the most recent examples of that (along with Australia and Africa). Scotland itself has experienced similar events with the Picts being usurped by the Scots (from Ireland) at the same time as the Norsemen (Vikings) followed by the Normans (yet more Vikings). Recent migrations have been less intrusive, perhaps because the climate is inimical to people from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa but anyone claiming to be a pure-blooded Scot is probably deluding themselves. Scots over the past few hundred years have settled and inter-married in all parts of the world and brought their own particular values and ideas with them. It was Scots who valued and fostered education for all above all else, who decried the class system so beloved of the English ("The man's a man for a that") and these are sentiments ingrained into the Scottish psyche. If you too espouse these values then who is to say you don't have Scottish blood somewhere in your veins.

[Smayniac]

Crack me up Todd...

So it all goes back to Scandanavian....Viking Scot, Viking Noman....where's that horned helmet???

Ron

There's another stereotype blown, no horns or wings on those helmets except in fantasy art.

Bob

[sathor]

There's another stereotype blown, no horns or wings on those helmets except in fantasy art.

Bob

If we can live with tartans at the ren fest, we can have our horned helms dagonit!

[Tony]

You didn't mention the Romans. Bloody Roman. They made it to Brittan, and you know some freaked out early Brits (I forget what 'tribe' they would have been) probably fled north, and intermarried, and I'm sure some Romans left some, um, souvenirs, when they left. And those Romans really liked to mix things up....

What did the Romans ever do for us?

[beloitpiper]

Ron, I was in the same boat. I learned that the Gordons were Norman, and I was shocked. Then I got a DNA test which certified me Celtic. So even though the chief was from Normandy doesn't mean everybody in the septs were also.

[sathor]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health?

[macwilkin]

Ron, I was in the same boat. I learned that the Gordons were Norman, and I was shocked. Then I got a DNA test which certified me Celtic. So even though the chief was from Normandy doesn't mean everybody in the septs were also.

Ever hear of that place next door to Normandy called Brittany?

T.

[sathor]

What did the Romans ever do for us?

now the answer I would love to give, instead of the one that was set up.

Funny metal Kilts?

[Dirk Skene]

......So, with increasing knowledge I've gone from believing my family is Scottish to now believing we're French-Scandanavian....

More tartans to buy now....

You better hold up on the research or you're gonna go broke