ext_59017 ([identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/) wrote in [personal profile] la_marquise 2011-08-02 09:39 pm (UTC)

Yes. And Scotland, of course, was Alba. 'Scot' means Irish, in Latin, and the Irish colonised and overwhelmed much of Alba in the 2nd to 6th centuries. History is full of elisions, displacements and false victorious stories.

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