A bheil Gàidhlig fo thoirmeasg an seo?

[SeamusAlba]

Originally Posted by Duthill

So they say

aye, so they do. Says so on Wikipedia for one.

[Duthill]

Yep , it does.
I have never come across any dispute regarding Canute being a Dane .
Was there a reason that you brought his name and race into this chat , other that the fact that you yourself were unsure of Canute's nationality and just needed conformation ?

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by SeamusAlba

It depends how you define a people. Democrats and Republicans hate each other too dont they? There is competition for resources from lobbyists. Dynastic families hated their own relatives. Hence why the Borgias were all separate people too.

Democrats and Republicans ???
Are you lost ? Perhaps you are confused about the topic and the medium , and have wandered into the wrong classroom at middle school . To equate the centuries long warfare that was waged between the Danes and the Norwegians with the lukewarm political party enmity that exists within a nation is childish in the extreme.


This thread , and indeed this forum is about things Scottish .
Lets try to keep it that way eh.

[SeamusAlba]

Originally Posted by Duthill

Democrats and Republicans ???
Are you lost ? Perhaps you are confused about the topic and the medium , and have wandered into the wrong classroom at middle school . To equate the centuries long warfare that was waged between the Danes and the Norwegians with the lukewarm political party enmity that exists within a nation is childish in the extreme.


This thread , and indeed this forum is about things Scottish .
Lets try to keep it that way eh.

youre just annoyed that Canute was a Danish king of England. The United States went through a Civil War I seem to recall, and the Democrats were at one time the party of the South. There was nothing childish about that. Whether a Southerner is or was ethnically different from a Northerner is a matter of opinion. Likewise with the enmity between and within Norse political society. I see nothing wrong with the broad sweep being focused on, as its simply one definition of their ethnicity. A European of the 1860s, may well have called a Southerner an American after all (let alone a Canadian!)

Also you've mentionned Britain and Ireland. How do you define the limits of Scottish?

[SeamusAlba]

Originally Posted by Duthill

Yep , it does.
I have never come across any dispute regarding Canute being a Dane .
Was there a reason that you brought his name and race into this chat , other that the fact that you yourself were unsure of Canute's nationality and just needed conformation ?

Well it mentionned his ruling large parts of England as well as having overlordship over the Gall-Gaedheal on Wikipedia and that seemed to contradict your blanket assertion that Danes were never rulers of England. The Danelaw covered the majority of it from what I recall and he is listed as a King of England so, how I thought he was worth mentionning.

Yorvik was a Norse capital is really all I was aiming for initially you know. If you wish to be pedantic then fine, but it said it was on the History Channel

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by SeamusAlba

youre just annoyed that Canute was a Danish king of England.....

Canute was not the King of England , he was a king of part of England .

Try reading the posts in their entirety , and then have a crack at comprehending the information they contain .

[Duthill]

Originally Posted by SeamusAlba

Also you've mentionned Britain and Ireland. How do you define the limits of Scottish?

If and when you ever manage actualy study the complex topic in question , you will understand the ridiculousness your question .