Skeleton reveals violent life and death of medieval knight
Hard days for Stirling knight who’d been hit by axe, arrow and sword
The Short and Violent Life of a Knight in Scotland
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History notes
I have started a daily “column” on colgaffneyis e-mail list. Continue reading
Scottish Fair
I spent the day with colgaffneyis at the Minnesota Scottish Fair and Highland Games. It was a good time, but exhausting. Continue reading
Saturday
We slept in this morning. I try to observe at least the beginning of Saturday as a day of rest.
Clann Tartan Mythbuster
One thing that find frustrating about colgaffneyis is that members seem quite happy to repeat generalities about the past (sometimes quite implausible) without checking the historical facts. I have a pretty good BS detector, and it frequently goes off in our camp. Here is a draft of the latest result of this. I will be publishing it in colgaffneyis newsletter. Whether anyone will read it and pay attention is uncertain. However, I have already started work on debunking another Clann myth.
Schedule conflict
Tomorrow colgaffneyis has an event at a Presbyterian Church in Hudson, Wisconsin (Just over the St. Croix River from Minnesota), to kick-off their church year. Unfortunately, our own church, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is also starting its church year. Continue reading
Colgaffneyis: You were warned.
The golden age of Gaelic Scotland
Extreme Scots
Via Agus Araile, where Wes commented:
Background: The Shetland accent is not just an accent. It is a separate and distinct sub-dialect of Scots English. It contains many words, and even grammar characteristics, from the extinct Scandinavian language called Norn, which was a variety of Norse spoken in the Shetlands and Orkneys before the islands were pawned to Scotland. The last speaker of Norn was said to have died in the 1850s. On top of the already diverse Scots dialect, the Norn influence places the Shetland dialect a few steps away from the Queen’s English.
More on galloglas
A follow-up to my book note and link about armor I subsequently posted: Galloglaich: History and Equipment. It is part of the Na Degad: Medieval Ireland site.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 