02-19-2010, 08:40 PM
There was no 'scottic' invasion or settlement by AD 600. Western Scotland was heavily influenced by Ireland since the Bronze Age, and gaelic-speaking population was probably living there centuries before the era that interest us. The 'Adventus scottorum' and the legendary foundation of scottish Dal Riada circa 500 AD may just have been a political shift of one gaelic dynasty to another.
Hmm. I've read several sources which claim there was a migration of Irish from the area we now call Ulster to what we now call Scotland circa AD 600. I don't think all call it a conquest or invasion, but they certainly seem to feel a new people group was involved. Leaders and saints are named.
Hmm. I've read several sources which claim there was a migration of Irish from the area we now call Ulster to what we now call Scotland circa AD 600. I don't think all call it a conquest or invasion, but they certainly seem to feel a new people group was involved. Leaders and saints are named.
"Fugit irreparabile tempus" (Irrecoverable time glides away) Virgil
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