Clans at Bannockburn?

[Husky]

Originally posted by Skyelander


As to your implication, that I cannot produce sources: I reproduce this from the highly respected "Collins Encyclopedia of Scotland" edited by John and Julia Keay.
ISBN # 0002550822 printed in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner Ltd.

Excerpted from Page 594, LANGUAGE, Scots:

paragraph 5, after a description of Scandinavian influence and Norn;

"By the 10th and 11th centuries Gaelic must have been in use to some extent all over Scotland, but in the 12th century it began to lose ground to Northern English. The Normanised kings of Scotland, particularly David I (1124-53), were impressed by the social and cultural innovations of Anglo-Norman England, and many Anglo-Norman and Flemish landowners were given grants of land north of the border [a practise that began with Malcolm III]. ...

"Although the upper classes spoke Norman French and the Clery Latin [exactly as I wrote initially], the native language of most was a type of Northern English influenced by Scandinavian tongue of the former Viking inhabitants of Northern England and the early burghs was to develop into the later Scots tongue, aided no dount by the presence in the south-east of a long-established Old English dialect."

That, of course, is very much the traditional account, but in no way is your simplistic source backing up your idea of an 12th century highland-lowland division ... which is simply fictitious in any case.

[Scottish_Republican]

Well, I'm glad someone agrees with me.

[TheVoyageur]

Originally posted by Skyelander
Unfortunately there is a pattern here. I've seen it before on other forums and I see it here with Scottish_Republican. Every board that also has an overly tolerant moderation, tends to become dominated by one personality.

Clearly, Scottish_Republican views himself as the dominant person on this forum. Perhaps he is?

I wouldn't go as far to say that, SR is a dominant person on this forum. As with many other internet forums around, he is merely a person who has:

A) A lot more time on his/her hands to post a lot more topics and replies to people.
B) Has a lot more information/knowledge at hand concerning various topics of a wide and varied Scottish nature than a lot of us.




P.S. Regarding your website: Constructive criticism is a good thing.

[Scottish_Republican]

Voyageur, I have the good fortune to be a very fast typer. It helps!

Anyway, if you take each forum here one by one, you'll find I'm not on most of them, for example I don't post on these ones -

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