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Scotsman ^ | 4-26-2005 | Ian Johnson

[Salamander]

I've never heard that.

I watched a show on Scotland a couple of weeks ago on on the History Channel.

The narrator gave a background on the word and announced that "Scot" is an Irish word that roughly translates into "Viking" or "Raider".

He'd gone into the etymology in the first place by way of explaining that the Scots were Irishmen who'd settled in what would be known later as Scotland, after mingling with/displacing the native Picts.

[Peanut Gallery]

from online etymology.com

Scot Look up Scot at Dictionary.com
O.E. Scottas (pl.) "inhabitants of Ireland, Irishmen," from L.L. Scotti (c.400), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Celtic (but answering to no known tribal name; Ir. Scots appears to be a L. borrowing). The name followed the Irish tribe which invaded Scotland after the Romans withdrew from Britain in 423 C.E., and after the time of Alfred the Great the O.E. word described Irish who had settled in the northwest of Britain.

"Scot, with its variants Scotch, Scottish, etc., may have been an Irish term of scorn (Scuit, pronounced shite); its ulterior origin is unknown." [Shipley]

[bannie]

First they attacked the Picts and Jutes and Celts. Then they returned a couple of times to attack the new "breed"--which then included the Vikings of the previous attacks. THEN--in 1066--the Viking descendants who'd moved to Normandy arrived on English soil and did some more mixing up.

Those Vikings were prolific.

[Salamander]

Go to a Scots Highland game and read that out loud.

I dare ya!....LOL!

They were raiders and the Irish version of "vikings".
Their geographic "launching point" from Ireland was Ulster.
To this day, the Ulstermen are called the "Scots-Irish" and were referred to as such when they came to America.
[my personal family history, in fact]

Some "new agers" have tried to tie Scota of Scotland to Egypt and make the Scots descendants of Pharoahs.

History can get pretty weird, depending on who is interpreting it....:)

[Salamander]

I have it on good authority that we're all descended from some paleo-dude named Bob.

[yarddog]

Some "new agers" have tried to tie Scota of Scotland to Egypt and make the Scots descendants of Pharoahs.

I doubt the Scots came from Egypt but there are some odd things about the ancient Egyptians. For instance, Ramses the Great, had red, wavy hair.

[Salamander]

Strap on your tinfoil Tam and have a go at this;


http://www.alastairmcintosh.com/articles/2000_andrew.htm


:)

[shibumi]

I think I can clear up the mystery.

The pyramids are the most famous and obvious artifacts of the Pleiadean culture on Earth. In the compendium of extraterrestrial archetypes, the Pleiadeans are the ones identified as the "Nordic looking" ones (as opposed to the Greys from Zeta Reticuli, or the "Lizard Men" from Draco.)

Since blond and red hair factors are indicative of a Pleiadean blood line, it would be no surprise to find them on a Pharaoh. The Pleiadean archetypes are prominently displayed in Norse mythology in the persons of Odin, Thor Balder, Sif, Freya, Loki, the Giants etc. and are ubiquitous in Northern European cultures.

(Hey!, it's no crazier than that Alastair McIntosh stuff!)

Tinfoil!, Tinfoil! Get Yer Tinfoil Here!

.......are we having fun yet?

[Scotsman will be Free]

Not sure where we came from, but I know that we invented everything.

[Salamander]

My ancestors arrived in Ireland on May Day via a ship that sailed in the air.....:)

[yarddog]

When we got our first "Encyclopedia Britannica", I would just take volumes and read them. I specifically remember noting how many great inventors, etc. were Scotsmen. Truly amazing considering the population of Scotland was less than 10 million.

On a sadder note, I also was surprised how many Frenchmen were in the encyclopedia.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

I long for the "good old days of pillage and plunder" Haggar The Horrible

[SunkenCiv]

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[mcshot]

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