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No writer can touch sir Walter Scott - Joyce and the Wizard of the North
https://blog.oup.com/2023/06/there-is-no-writer-can-touch-sir-walter-scott-joyce-and-the-wizard-of-the-north/"There is no writer can touch sir Walter Scott": Joyce and the Wizard of the NorthWhile Walter Scott was one of the greatest novelists of nineteenth-century literature, at least in terms of sales, James Joyce was probably the major novelist of the twentieth century in terms of impact and influence. According to Joyce’s brother Stanislaus, the Irish writer "couldn’t stand" the Scot’s wo...
Found and Lost? The Long Road Taken By Robert the Bruce’s Heart
Robert the Bruce is one of the most, if not the most famous Scotsmen to have ever lived. Infamous for the 14th-century reign that saw him taking on England’s much bigger and better-equipped army and beating them! There probably wouldn’t be a Scotland today without him. However, as famous as he is, very few people are familiar with the gruesome fact that he had his heart shipped half away around the world. Or how even stranger still, it was lost for centuries. And the tales of Robert the Bruce...
Robert Burns
RB is also Roast Beef and Roland Barthes! -zas Jun 2022 Robert Burns (person) See all of Robert Burns, there is 1 more in this node. (person) by Gone Jackal (2.9 mon) Rep: 51 ( +52 / -1 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Jan 15 2001 at 17:32:42 A short, oversimplified biography: Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January, 1759 in Alloway, a village in Ayrshire, Scotland, to a poor but educated farmer. Since the village was too poor to afford a school master, he was educated by his fath...
The Order of the Thistle: A Symbol of Positive Anglo-Scottish Relations from the Medieval to the Modern Period
The Order of the Thistle has been Scotland’s highest order of Chivalry since the late seventeenth century. It is made up of sixteen members – initially limited to twelve – who are Scottish, or of Scottish descent and have contributed in a significant way to Scottish National life. Membership of the order is one of the country’s highest honours, as it is given as a personal gift by the sovereign – the leader of the order, who chooses two further royal members. The Order has always played an in...
Asgard in Orkney - Petroglyphs, Ancient Races And A US Connection
Within the rolling green hills of Scotland lie thousands of ancient stones covered with mysterious glyphs. And, somehow, a near identical stone can be found hidden in the great Appalachians of North Carolina in the United States, near a mountain summit. How can it be that the same symbols appear in both Prehistoric Scotland and North Carolina ? These symbols whisper a cryptic message to us from a forgotten time. Scholars and amateurs alike can only stare in wonder, scratching their hea...
William Wallace - Wikipedia
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