Stonehenge Mystery Deepens As Altar Traced To Scotland

where is that montegriffio character , coming on this forum , nicking all our Scottish recipes.

as the great French philosopher voltaire once famously said......."we ( the civilised world) look to scotland for all our ideas of civilisation "

monte , how can the earliest recipe be found in an English book  when it was us Scottish who civilised you and taught you how to read and write post the roman period?

 we invented marmalade , due to our interaction with our Iberian brothers and sisters , going way back to the old Celtic period. do you think it coincidence the northern Spanish all have red hair and play bagpipes?

 We were eating marmalade , when the English were still living in caves in the hartz mountains of Germany. admit it. You nicked our recipe , and are now trying to pass it off as your own.

och yer arse. Not content with nicking our marmalade recipe , you are now trying to steal the kilt? 

we have plenty of evidence that Scots , and the ancestors of the Scots , were wearing the kilt before anyone had heard of the country of england. Off the top of my head , in Aberlmeno kirkyard in north east scotland, we have an old 8th century Pictish standing stone commemorating the battle of dunnichen fought in the year  685 ad.

The figures on the stone of the Pictish warriors are all depicted wearing kilts according to experts and historians. About 1100 years before the English tried to nick yet another much loved Scottish cultural marker. 

 

 

it wasnt the greek word , but the greek translation of the Celtic word at the time for these islands , which was prydain. 

 The welsh are the native britons .Their language is the native British language.  There is an argument that the original Celtic language that preceded the ancestor of welsh was of course Goidelic , an ancestor of Scottish and irish  and Manx. 

There is actually an argument that the Celtic languages came here with the beaker people.

The kilt was a sign of manliness and power. Originally Celtic warriors would run into battle naked , but by the 7 th century , we had become a bit more sophisticated , and wore the kilt itself.

The idea of the kilt , which comes from the same root word as celt , is hidden , or to hide. it kept your manhood hidden , but allowed the much larger endowed Scottish warriors room to move, unlike their anglo saxon counterparts , whose small size was often ridiculed among the Scots of antiquity. 

As I said monte , there really should be a modern law against the English trying to culturally misappropriate all the great things scotland  has invented.

I mean I haven't laughed so hard since the father in law told me how great English whiskey was. 

no believe it or not , there is still a lot of arguing over where and when the original Celtic language came to these islands. 


the people arrived with the languages and culture. That doesn't necessarily mean they completely replaced or wiped the previous inhabitants , but certainly new waves of European migrants arrived.

 Didnt I read , contrary to the island race push people like vinny lap up , that almost everyone in these islands can trace themselves back to a common European ancestor in Central Europe some 5000 years ago ?

 Prior to Churchills crap book on the British island race , I dont think the thought had ever entered peoples minds that we were some sort of island people separate from Europe , which of course we aren't.