Orm
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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy Well, thanks for the assist, Gentlemen. INP. ALL HAIL THE THREAD!!! All Hail Chickenboy. The new INP King of the Thread. You speak too soon MacDuff MacDuff? Do you take me for an Irishman? Scot! Trust me - you really do not want to tell an Irishman he is not! I thought it was the Scots I might have insulted, and not any Irishman. I was sort of saying that the Scots were Irish. That might be a greater sin, at least to some minds. Indeed. Yet Swedes are often mistaken for Swiss, or Norwegians, and so on. I even, at least once, seen Swedes mistaken for Dutch. And I've been mistaken for German when I was in France. It was a bit frosty before I realized it and informed them I was Swedish. Amazing how fast the French become warm and friendly. Anyway, I thought it might be a bit fun to wander back a bit in history when the Irish were included in the creation of the Scots. A few quotes to show my reasoning. The Scottish people or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically, they emerged from an amalgamation of two Celtic-speaking peoples, the Picts and Gaels, who founded the Kingdom of Scotland (or Alba) in the 9th century. For most of Ireland's recorded history, the Irish have been primarily a Gaelic people "Scotland" comes from Scoti, the Latin name for the Gaels. Beginning in the sixth century, the area that is now Scotland was divided into three areas: Pictland, a patchwork of small lordships in central Scotland; the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria, which had conquered southeastern Scotland; and Dál Riata, founded by settlers from Ireland, bringing Gaelic language and culture with them.
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