Lowland Scotland also at one point spoke Scottish Gaelic, which is backed by place name evidence and many sources even say so. The popular believe that all Highlanders are purely Celtic and all Lowlanders are purely Germanic is a complete myth. What Shannon also fails to acknowledge is the fact that in the 19th Century, many Scottish Highlanders and Irish migrated to the Scottish Lowlands because there was more employment opportunity.
So there is also a large concentration of Irish DNA in the lowlands. Get off your high horse Mac and George. Shannon is talking more recent than the base origins, and she is certainly not referring to genetics.
Her post was not designed to give a history of Scottish or English origin. The purpose of the post, and it did so fairly well, was to describe the somewhat modern rise of the tartan fad, as well as to explain why some people with Scot heritage may not be able to find their clan tartan.
Such exerps from history are common on tours. If a person wants to know more, or prior to the events discussed, they can look it up themselves. While your posts were interesting, they were not applicable to Shannon's post. Shannon's post answered my immediate questions. That's her job. If I wanted an expert on genetics I would have looked on a different site. Thank you for the post. My english is very bad.
Asi que muchas gracias por el articulo, me ha despejado muchas dudas. Espero que sigas con tus articulos a pesar de las criticas. Muchas gracias. The arguing in the comments section is hilarious. What's gaelic for paddywhackky?
Get in mah bellah! No, but seriously though dawgs, interesting stuff. What say you all about evidence of the ancient basque origins of pretty much everyone in the Isles? Pretty funny if you ask me. Of course feudal cum capitalist oppression of the highlanders and the irish is effed up. Good though that the IRA took out that right wing bastard Mountbatten.
Mother's side are primitive French-Scots highlanders and a mix of more evolved Irish Flemings with a good helping of McCormick, McCarthy et al sheep-shaggers. I lean toward devolution but kind of feel sorry for those living in England as their country has gotten more and more right wing and decrepit over the years.
Ah well, maybe they deserve it for living off the blood of the oppressed and backward. Alex, regarding your last paragraph, are you speaking of the southern US states? If so, was this dislike between the American highlanders and lowlanders true?
The MacDonalds vs the who? Shannon wrote a good piece, a lot true by what Ive read in other articles concerning the clearances.. I have heard that the Scottish and Irish came from ancient Israel. What do you have to say to this Shannon. I have just returned from Britain and on a tour of Newcastle Northern England we were shown a large piece of Hadrians Wall which is still intact.
I would guess that the people of what is now known as the Lowlands of Scotland many miles north of Newcastle and everybody north, west, east and south of them down to Hadrians wall would all have been of similar stock. Picts, Gaels, but all Celts as i understand the term.
The differences referred to in the original post may have occurred in later centuries, but genetically and historically these people are all largely the same i respectfully submit. Scotland is in danger of becoming a Mythical Highland Theme Park I am sorry. But I am very angry about this. I am sick of my heritage trying to be destroyed. I am from lowland Scotland Glasgow specifically and I am annoyed. My surname is Hughes, my surname tells me I am of Brythonic Celtic origin If Lowland Scots are not truly Scottish then surely we would just be an extension of England?
The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria only reached what is now modern day Edinburgh. Gaelic was spoken everywhere except in the South-East because that was Northumbria Scotland is a mix of Irish, Picts, Cumbrians and Brythonic people. Many lowlanders have Irish roots.
Clans also existed in the lowlands Clan Wallace and Clan Bruce being the most famous , and so did bagpipes, just not the same as the Great Highland Bagpipes But yes sadly, I have to admit, kilts are a new thing to the lowlands, but it's okay, Kilts developed over a period of centuries, growing from just a small area in the Highlands to all over the Highlands and some parts of the North-Eastern Lowlands to the national symbol of Scotland, it developed from being just simple everyday wear to well sewed and fashioned cultural wear with each tartan belonging to a certain caln, the concept of clan tartan is fairly new Denying us lowlanders Gaelic, kilts, bagpipes and clans Is the same as denying us haggis, shortbread and irn bru, because shortbread was actually influenced a bit by Mary Queen of Scots who was a lowlander, so please don't post offensive and untrue statements like these, if lowlanders weren't true Scottish, then we would just be apart of England and the Scottish border wouldn't be far outside the Highland area.
Scottish Gaelic died out in the 's and got replaced by Middle English. It began to retreat into the Highland area and the North Eastern lowlands and also Galloway. The whole Isle is a tale of counties and tribes, with little difference between them. You are essentially an extention of northern England just as the northern English are an extention of the scottish.
I'm a Yorkkshire lad who doesn't like southerners and would have my county "Gods own country" run free of England in a heartbeat. Truth is the whole Isle is largely of a county mentality, divided, feudal, and highly divided. There is no national sentiment in England, so why would there be one in Scotland too. If a MacLeod can see that a Macdonald Tate is male, why cannot the rest of you? Would someone be able to suggest reading on Scotlands lowlanders? My ancesters are MacEwens and am very interested in what their lives were like and about their language.
I haven't worked my family tree for a while but do have a ships manifest in a folder somewhere with my few times great grandfathers name on it. They settled on P. I have recently sent my DNA to Ancestry. So the MacEwen tartan was only created in the recent centuries as only highlanders sported them?
Were lowlanders more civilized since they were close to England? Thank you for any suggested reading or links. Most interesting and funniest part of all of this is so many people assuming everyone wants to be Scottish. Not that there's anything wrong with being Scottish, my husband's family had a number of ancestors arrive in Canada from Scotland in the 18th Century from different families.
But it's fantastical that anyone imagines they're true anything. A DNA test will show we're all a bunch of mutts. If we weren't, we would all be unhealthy inbreeds.
Especially highlanders after so many were killed and run off the land. They would have had to marry non-highlanders to survive. Where did this assumption that everyone wants to be Scottish come from? I got a dumb American question as many posters seem to be Scottish and I know it don't really apply to the artical but I'm hoping you can hummer my stupidity.
I've traced my ancestry back to Thomas Sharp born in midlothian Scotland is that highland or lowlands? I apologize that a spelling error offended you Scarekrow but I think for being highly disabled with multiple disabilities including autism and multiple sclerosis which which causes me some aphasia issues my post was pretty clear concise.
Maybe instead of being the spelling police you could help me out and just answer the question I ask. The Lowlanders' culture was Germanic.
To make my point clearer, please remember that the ancient Romans took many slaves from the Slavic peoples and from the Middle East, and the DNA from these people can be found in Italians today. That, however, does not make Romans Slavic or Arab. I am from the lowlands of Scotland, and I take great offense. You have a very bias view on Scotland, based purely on myths. It is a well known fact the belted plaid became a popular form of men's wear in the lowlands in the 17th century.
Scottish Gaelic was spoken in the lowlands in the past, but it retreated to the highlands sometime in the 's because it was replaced by Middle English. I speak some Scottish Gaelic myself and I have a basic knowledge of the language Such as phonology, pronunciation, grammar, syntax etc etc.
My surname name is Hughes by the way and I have a clan, my Hughes's come from Ireland. Literally every founding father of the United States was full blood Scottish or Scots-Irish, and they brought their tartans and traditions with them. Many of our founding military officers were retired Scottish, Scots-Irish, or English soldiers or sailors that came to the Americas because it was the only place with affordable land and room for growth. Our local law enforcement traditions also copied their Scottish brothers in blue back on the old country.
Most American accents are derived from those Scottish roots, and you can still hear striking similarities to Scotland in many small communities throughout the entire eastern half of the United States, especially in rural areas of the former colonies.
Aye mum, my mother maiden name is Tate. But I guess if you go back far enough it's tait. What my question is, is what happened to the TAIT clan? I can't find ANY information on it at all. Fallow land may be: bare land with no crops at all. Highlands or uplands are any mountainous region or elevated mountainous plateau. Generally speaking, upland or uplands refers to ranges of hills, typically up to — m 1,—2, ft. Highland or highlands is usually reserved for ranges of low mountains.
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