Tarrel wrote: We seem to have skipped Spring and gone directly to Summer this weekend!
Us Sassenachs must have missed this...
EDIT: ...though I seem to understand you were once one of us...
I had to Google that to see who it was directed at. What do you call American tourist while they attempt to drive on the correct side of the road roaming the countryside looking for the long lost estate and title?
Don't worry, it's a Latin word for the Germans used by the Irish in southern Scotland to refer to the English who were actually mostly Nordic.
The whole sorry mess probably really narks the Picts.
JavaScriptDonkey wrote:
Don't worry, it's a Latin word for the Germans used by the Irish in southern Scotland to refer to the English who were actually mostly Nordic.
The whole sorry mess probably really narks the Picts.
Apart from it's a Gaelic word used by the Scots in northern Scotland meaning Saxons who are originally German used to refer to southern English who were mostly French that was completely right JSD.
JavaScriptDonkey wrote:
Don't worry; it's a Latin word for the Germans used by the Irish in southern Scotland to refer to the English who were actually mostly Nordic.
The whole sorry mess probably really narks the Picts.
Apart from it's a Gaelic word used by the Scots in northern Scotland meaning Saxons who are originally German used to refer to southern English who were mostly French that was completely right JSD.
But Andy!! The southern "French" English were the Normans from Normandy the section of France captured and settled by the Vikings AKA Norman.
Being descended from southern English stock and being 6' 3" tall with grey blue eyes I suspect there is some berserker blood in there somewhere.
JavaScriptDonkey wrote:
Don't worry, it's a Latin word for the Germans used by the Irish in southern Scotland to refer to the English who were actually mostly Nordic.
The whole sorry mess probably really narks the Picts.
Apart from it's a Gaelic word used by the Scots in northern Scotland meaning Saxons who are originally German used to refer to southern English who were mostly French that was completely right JSD.
We could say that the Highlanders weren't Scots at all as most Scots spoke Lalland or Doric and being often from Northumberland or thereabouts mostly genetically Norse.
I suspect it's original meaning was simply 'low lander' but it depends how far North you go in Scotland - too far and your banging in to Nordics again.
