“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Elisiv of Kiev has been on my list of important subjects since December 2018. The Many Hidden Mysteries of Grand Tartaria Below is not the perfect video for my point but it’ll do. MY DNA. I’ve talked about quite a bit : 36% Scottish, 29% Scandinavian….1% Russian. As we are talking about almost 1,000 years […]
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Since when did Killarney become a National Park? I’ve read the Annals of Innisfallen. Brian Boru and his grandson Muirchertach Ua Briain must be turning in their graves. Muirchertach Ua Briain had a bit of a tiff with Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway about the title of High King of Ireland. Enter the Ravens of […]
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D’y’all know this song? Maybe not. It’s a “traditional” UK song called A Mother’s Lament. David sings it at the end of Taken at the Flood. See below. Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole(A Mother’s Lament) Traditional Song A mother was bathing her baby one nightThe youngest of ten and a delicate miteThe mother […]
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Thanks to an amazing friend, I learned quite a bit about Alasdair and the Lord of the Isles. She is much more Scandinavian than me. “They” say that Mac Colla was 6ft 7inches…though slightly shorter when “they” beheaded (?) him in Ireland. Mac Colla’s father Coll Ciotach, who was again taken prisoner at Dunyvaig, was […]
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I put them both in the same category. Thieving. Lying. Criminals. Rob Roy would have spoken pure Gaelic. Unless he was wheedling his way out of a tricky sitch via the English. Did Rob Roy speak Gaelic?HIGHLANDS AND LOWLANDS Lowlanders spoke Scots, for example, a blend of English and Gaelic with French influences, which Sir […]
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Just li’l old me. On my own. As in INDEPENDENT & not CO-DEPENDANT ! With my mates. Phil & Bill…fellow CELTS/SCYTHIANS yada yada.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the latter. His wife, Mary Shelley, wrote the former. Better known as Frankenstein. A bit of poetry then a bit of a GB goggle. Go away :o) BTW : Ken Bran is a Belfast Boy…FECK ME !
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My turn now after nearly 3 years of TORTURE. I’m calling in mine own. The gallowglass were from the western coast of Scotland, principally Argyll and the Western Isles.[2] Their weapon of choice was a battle axe, but claymores were not uncommon. The gallowglasses (also spelled galloglass, gallowglas or galloglas; from Irish: gall óglaigh meaning foreign warriors) were a class of elite mercenary warriors who were principally members of the Norse-Gaelic clans of […]
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via IrishForeignMinistry. BARFTASTIC :o( Begorrah. All the Irish people that I’ve known and still know will be so NOT social distancing. Have y’all ever been to a Celtic Wedding or a Celtic Wake? The hugs and the kisses and the dancing and the kilts and the music and the food and the ……. ! Even […]
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My youngest son was born in Co. Antrim. Ten miles from Belfast. Knockdhu is 20 miles from Belfast but I never went there. Wish I had. It reminds me so much of the Highlands of Scotland…a bit fierce and unforgiving at times :o) Y’all know how much I LOVE (!) Team Time programming, yes? Let’s […]
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Oh. Such fun to be had :o) Ken is a Belfast Boy. Andrew is a Dublin boy. If you GET my vibe, you’ll get it. If not…!
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If there is just ONE SINGLE thing that can turn me from a Baconian to an Oxfordian it is THIS… GB 14th March 2019 : Cathars/Starfort/Oxford And Inspector Morse. And Lewis. And AW. AND KEN BRAN x I’ve said before that the authorship of the Shakespeare plays was not important to me. Who ever wrote […]
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