About St. Ninian, would you care to expand that section to explain what happened that Christianity needed to be re-introduced later? Based on my own knowledge of the history of the area, I assume he was a contemporary of the late Romans, and that his efforts came to naught after they left. But I don't know that, and a bit of clarification might be useful -- Paul Drye I have got more to say about St Ninian but I want to check my facts first, basically he lived sometime between 360ish and 432. It's believed that he converted the Southern Picts to Roman Christianity but they recanted. No one knows why. -- Derek Ross |
so-called adj 1. Commonly named : popularly termed 2. falsely or improperly so named.
Given the remainder of the paragraph on the Clearances, I think it's clear which meaning of the term is being used. -- PaulDrye
Yes, there is an ambiguity here; certainly when someone says 'so-called' to me, though, I tend to think immediately in terms of definition 2, as I guess, would most people... sjc
What I was going to change was the date for the start of known habitation in Scotland... by 2000BC we were already into the Bronze Age. Mesolithic midden has been discovered on Lewis and near Inverness which dates to at least 5000BC... Dweir
I have got more to say about St Ninian but I want to check my facts first, basically he lived sometime between 360ish and 432. It's believed that he converted the Southern Picts to Roman Christianity but they recanted. No one knows why. -- Derek Ross