[MR] Re: Scots and Iraq

[Brett McCoy]

t_neill t_neill wrote:
> This quote makes me wonder about what their doco shows:
> 
> "The programmes - accompanied by a book - also claim the mythical land 
> of Atlantis existed in what we now know as the North Sea, and that many 
> Scots spoke Old Welsh before Gaelic."
> 
> Atlantis?  Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. I wonder 
> what their evidence is.
> 
> And are they saying very few Scots have Viking blood?  Because the area 
> was owned by Norway for a long time, and there certainly were vikings 
> and scandinavians living there for centuries.

It's pretty far fetched, especially considering what we know now as modern Iraq 
is very different from ancient Mesopotamia, an area that has been populated by 
many different peoples, both Semitic and non-Semitic.  Which might they mean 
the Scots are related to?

Why is it everyone with some theory that could have been interesting have to 
interject it with yet another new theory of Atlantis?

-- Istvan