← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Ed Toner
Thread ID: 11605 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2003-12-26
2003-12-26 00:11 | User Profile
Forwarded are a number of sites which will be of interest to those who come from a Scottish background...The topic is the Letter of Arbroath, or the Scottish Declaration of Independence: Addressed to the English King and the Pope, demanding that they be freed from "dominion" from under both..
This Letter was signed in 1320 by 37 Scottish Chieftans and what it has to say about themselves is exceptionally revealing...For it shows that they well understood their past, knew who they had been before coming to Scotland, and how they got there...
Declaration of Arbroath
[url]http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/blknow_arbroath.htm[/url] [url]http://www.constitution.org/scot/arbroath.htm[/url] [url]http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/arbroath.html[/url] [url]http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/home/scotland/arbroath_english.html[/url] [url]http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/uk/arbroath.html[/url] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/independence/features_independe[/url] nce/arbroath.shtml [url]http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/eurodocs/arbroath_1320.htm[/url] [url]http://www.podsnet.org/Soteg/Library/Celts/Scots/02hib.htm[/url]
2003-12-29 12:25 | User Profile
[I]Most holy Father and Lord, we know and gather from ancient acts and records, that in every famous nation this of Scotland hath been celebrated with many praises: This nation having come from Scythia the greater, through the Tuscan Sea and the Hercules Pillars, and having for many ages taken its residence in Spain in the midst of a most fierce people, could never be brought in subjection by any people, how barbarous soever: And having removed from these parts, above 1,200 years after the coming of the Israelites out of Egypt, did by many victories and much toil obtain these parts in the West which they still possess, having expelled the Britons and entirely rooted out the Picts, notwithstanding of the frequent assaults and invasions they met with from the Norwegians, Danes, and English; And these parts and possessions they have always retained free from all manner of servitude and subjection, as ancient histories do witness.[/I]
Thanks for that link!!! I wonder where they got their history from. Sythia does indeed seem the origin of the Kelts. But going down through Italy and by boat through the Med is strange. Also, the Picts were Kelts, and modern historians say that they simply merged with the Irish invaders to for a single nation.