The History of Scotland

ISBN-13: 9783565083206 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str.

Auke de Haan

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Scotland's roots claw into misty crags where Picts scratched symbols on standing stones, fending off Roman eagles that never quite crossed the Antonine Wall, while Dalriada Celts paddled in from Ireland's shores. Norse axes carved the north into earldoms, their sagas spilling into Orkney halls till Macbeth knifed his way to the throne in a Shakespearean stab. Medieval melee followed-Wallace and Bruce's spider-web grit at Bannockburn, turning English longbows into footnotes while Mary of Guise's French flair spiced the courts. It was a brew of border reivers rustling cattle under moonless skies and Reformation fires torching abbeys, forging a kirk that preached thrift amid the thistles.Union's ink dried in 1707, stitching Scotland to England's apron strings for trade winds that blew Highland wool to Lowland looms, but clearances gutted the glens-lairds torching thatch roofs to fatten sheep, crofters fleeing famine ships to Nova Scotia's rocks. Jacobite sparks flew in '45, Charlie's white cockade rallying clans at Prestonpans before Culloden's moor drank the dream dry, pipes wailing over bayonet graves. Enlightenment's candle flickered next-Hume pondering in Edinburgh's New Town, Watt puffing steam from Glasgow workshops, turning peat bogs into iron empires.Twentieth-century thunder rolled: devolution's '99 devolution dusting off the Saltire, oil rigs spiking the North Sea like new cairns while independence whispers echo in Holyrood halls. Scotland's no kilted postcard-it's a dram of defiance, proving a small spine can spine the world's spine with its stubborn song.

Scotland's roots claw into misty crags where Picts scratched symbols on standing stones, fending off Roman eagles that never quite crossed the Antonine Wall, while Dalriada Celts paddled in from...