Relations Between Scotland & England

[Scottish_Republican]

Gaelic has been in Scotland for at least 1500 years. To call it Irish, is a bit like saying that Moscow is still ruled by Vikings.

[Croi Sasanach]

Originally Posted by Scottish_Republican

Gaelic has been in Scotland for at least 1500 years. To call it Irish, is a bit like saying that Moscow is still ruled by Vikings.

Or England is full of Angles ?

[Scottish_Republican]

Well, English is at least a corruption of their name. Moscow hasn't been particularly Norse for a long time. England at least still speaks a language which evolved from Anglo-Saxon.

I wouldn't say the English were particularly German, but they do have some German and French traits to them - mainly through later contact.

[DonHugo]

Originally Posted by Kern

This is interesting stuff. I never knew there were e books of this kind. Interesting to read history without the screaming nationalist 'really we are all gaelic (in fact IRISH even,)' revisionsit take on things. History is history.

More please.

You might be interested in 'The Origins of the British' by Stephen Oppenheimer for a different, plausible, view of our origins.