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Subject: Indeed...

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Ed Harris (Venezia)

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Date Posted: 00:26:17 11/07/04 Sun
In reply to: Curnoack 's message, "Wrong!!! Very wrong!" on 21:10:04 11/05/04 Fri

And don't the Highlanders traditionally refer to Lowlanders as 'Sassenachs', which, I can only presume from my limited knowledge of Gaelic, means 'Saxon'?

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Random Jock
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Date Posted: 17:01:39 11/08/04 Mon

The Highlanders tended to refer to the Lowlanders as "Gall". Incidentally this same element is found in the name of the Hebrides (na h-Innse Gall), DoneGAL, GALLoway (Gaidhlig speaking until the 19th century see Lorimer et al in "Scottish Gaelic Studies", "Carn" and other sources), and GALway. The Lowlands are known as "Galldachd" (Gall-dom), NOT "Sasainn".

Sasunnach does indeed mean Saxon, but what Wattie Scott got wrong, is that it was more used for proper English, than anglicised Lowlanders.

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Author: Ed Harris (Back in Shropshire) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:20:25 11/09/04 Tue Thanks for the correction. I see I must brush up on my Gaelic. I have a copy of Mog an Cat somewhere which may help. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]