Imagine having your nation invented in the 18th and 19th centuries

>>14938289 (OP)

ImagiNation

>>14938289 (OP)

So basically most nations?

>>14938289 (OP)

The Declaration of Arbroath is literally one of the earliest explicit statements of national identity as we understand the term today 



>but muh clan tartans n shiet 



Yeah just about every country has made up 19th century bullshit traditions, who the fuck cares

>Against the English claim that the kingdom of Scotland was an English –or rather,Anglo-Norman–fief, the Scots insisted that it was an ancient independent monarchy;indeed, more ancient than that of England.In 1301 the rival myths were trotted out before the Pope–the Roman Pope Boniface VIII.In 1320, when the Avignon Pope John XXII refused to accept the verdict of the battle of Bannockburn, the Scottish leaders in arms drew up the famous Declaration of Arbroath–the Scottish Declaration of Independence.There the (mostly Norman) barons described to the Pope,in detail,the travels and exploits of their ‘Scottish’ ancestors:how they had passed from greater Scythia over the Tyrrhenian sea,and beyond the Pillars of Hercules;how they had stayed, for long tracts of time, inSpain, unconquered among the fiercest of warriors;and how,‘twelve hundred years after the setting forth of the people of Israel’,by victory after victory and travail after travail,they had won for themselves the abodes in the west which they now held in continuous freedom and independence.They had expelled the Britons and utterly destroyed the Picts; they had been assailed again and again by Norseman,Dane and Saxon;but they had never been subdued. ‘Within this realm’, they added confidently, ‘there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of native royal stock,nullo aliengena interveniente’,without a single outsider among them.How had the figure of 113 kings of Scotland been arrived at?Under the pressure of events, the barons had evidently taken a quick look at the latest king-list and done a rough count of the kings that they had found there.They had read the list as a direct line: starting with Fergus son of Ferchar and all his successors of Dalriada until they petered out, then going next through the line of Pictish kings (without adverting to the fact),before coming back on the home straight with Kenneth mac Alpin and his successors of the ‘amalgamated’ monarchy

>>14938289 (OP)

Appalachians are lowlanders and can restart the clan traditions and larp as Americans highlanders even though they’re from the lowlands.

>english schoolday ends

>english anon posts it again 

kek

Some fun facts:



>80% of Scotland's population is in the lowlands which is just a continuation of north England

>the Scottish language was just English minus the French influence since the Normans didn't conquer Scotland in 1066

>the medieval Scottish kingdom was ruled by Norman lords who spoke English and ruled an English-speaking peasantry

>the Scots lost every battle they ever fought with England outside the Pyrrhic victory of Bannockburn

>haggis are first mentioned in a 14th century English cookbook

>bagpipes are found across Europe and are not native to Scotland at all

>the kilt was invented by an Englishman
