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To: Vicomte13

""Scotii" was a Roman term for some of the people from the island they called "Hibernia", after the Hibernii (or
Ivernii) tribes that lived there: Ireland."

And later on we were just known as angry folk?


46 posted on 07/11/2005 6:28:30 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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To: Domestic Church

Isn't the derivation that the Irish called the place Erin? Eire-land in Germanic derivate?


47 posted on 07/11/2005 6:59:12 PM PDT by Vicomte13 (Et alors?)
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