Show CLAIM DESCENT FROM CELTS Writer Asserts Scotsmen Are a Unit In Denying Stories of Their Saxon Origin It way WM that deadly flower of Saxon chivalry Edward I who caused the early records of or Scotland to be de de- de Fortunately the Irish Celtic annalists annalists' writings remain and as historians his his- none were more competent or able to form Corm an Impartial Judgment of Scotland's early history than thon they were Nowhere In their annals do they make the slightest mention of 01 the silly theory of 01 the Saxon origin of the peo pea people pIe of ot southern or eastern Scotland and they also know nothing of the fictitious division of Highlanders and Low Lowlanders landers Hector Is also si silent silent si- si lent on the supposed Saxon descent of 01 the Low Lowlander lander and the expulsion of 01 the Celt Instead h he says sas we who have our abode on the confines of 01 England through m much ch commercial intercourse and wars have haye learned the Saxon speech and have ha forsaken our own Our place names prove the es essential of 01 Scotland as the Celtic forms outnumber the English by ten to toone toone i ione one and nd the latter are mostly modern I or corruptions of at the Gaelic The Tho Eng Eng- English lish Ilah language pushed out ont our native Gaelic but neither Saxon nor English displaced the men and any outsiders outsider who fifteen hundred years jears ago were were permitted to survive within our borders borders borders bor bor- ders would soon be fused Into the whole and today we are a n nation or orrace orrace orrace race or breed second to none and as ns Professor Keith the eminent ethnologist ethnologist gist says the Scot Is the fertilizer of ot the British empire Edinburgh Scotsman |