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Post by deuce on Feb 26, 2018 13:04:31 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 22, 2018 0:36:22 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 27, 2018 13:58:01 GMT -5
Wallace Bled
Scots, wha hae wi’ Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led;
Welcome to your gory bed,
Or to victory!
Now’s the day, and now’s the hour;
See the front o’ battle lour;
See approach proud Edward’s power—
Chains and slavery!
Wha will be a traitor knave?
Wha can fill a coward’s grave!
Wha sae base as be a slave?
Let him turn and flee!
Wha for Scotland’s king and law
Freedom’s sword will strongly draw,
Freeman stand, or freeman fa’,
Let him follow me!
By oppression’s woes and pains!
By your sons in servile chains!
We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free!
Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow!—
Let us do or die!
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Post by deuce on Mar 28, 2018 0:24:19 GMT -5
Margot Robbie as Elizabeth in the upcoming Mary, Queen Of Scots film. Losh! What a fine lass she is.
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Post by deuce on Apr 13, 2018 23:36:40 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 5, 2018 9:55:11 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on May 20, 2018 22:18:16 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Aug 15, 2018 1:43:54 GMT -5
A decent doc on the prehistory of Scotland:
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Post by deuce on Aug 24, 2018 11:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 19, 2018 8:50:49 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 3, 2018 9:53:34 GMT -5
I visited Largs and its museum on my second trip to Scotland in 2014. Cool stuff!
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Post by kemp on Oct 5, 2018 8:19:45 GMT -5
Possibly in bad taste if you're a Star Trek fan ... ...... Trainspotting in Space.
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Post by deuce on Oct 6, 2018 21:53:35 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 15, 2018 12:25:24 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Oct 27, 2018 15:28:25 GMT -5
James Macpherson was born this day in 1736: www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mac/jamesmacpherson2.htmlAdmired by everyone from Goethe to Napoleon to Robert E. Howard, James profoundly influenced the concept of Scottish identity and more-or-less sparked the interest in Celtic tales that we still see today. While James was denounced as a "forger" of the Ossian tales, I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The tales contain elements of genuine Gaelic folklore. That cannot be denied. In my opinion, Macpherson "embellished" tales he heard growing up as a boy. We know other folklorists--like Lonnrot in Finland--"edited" and "tidied up" what would become national epics. Macpherson probably felt that if he admitted any embellishment, he and the Ossian tales would be completely written off by anti-Scottish English colleagues. There was no shortage of those in the wake of the two major Jacobite Scottish rebellions which Kail has discussed on this thread several times. Those uprisings scared the crap out of the literati and elites in London. Despite all that, the Ossian tales were a smash hit in the Isles and the Continent. "Oscar"--despite its Gaelic provenance--became a popular name in Germany and Sweden due to that popularity. TL;DR: Macpherson got the shaft, though he wasn't blameless.
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