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A study into the origins of the Scottish Gales, through an examination of hill and river names in County Antrim in Ireland and Argyll in Scotland.
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A study into the origins of the Scottish Gales, through an examination of hill and river names in County Antrim in Ireland and Argyll in Scotland. The commonly accepted view of the origin of the Gaelic speaking Scottish Gales is that in the early 6th Century there was a mass movement of the Gaelic speaking Irish from Ireland across to Argyle. Here the Irish Gales are said to have displaced the Brittonic speakers and therefore introduced Gaelic to the west coast of Scotland. In the mid 9th Century the kings of the Scottish Gales took over the Pictish region on the east of Scotland to form the country now known as Scotland. This view, although well established and supported, is littered with holes in the argument. In an article by Ewan Campbell, it is shown that there is no solid archaeological evidence to suggest a vast movement of people from...
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