Tell me about Lowlanders /his/.

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They made Scotland and indeed Britain successful.

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>>1783411
How did they do it?

>>1783413
>PROTESTANT
>WORK
>ETHIC

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>>1783285
Anglos.

>>1783413
Why is the wall sad?

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>>1783438
it is cold.

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>>1783432
Amen.

I wrote my BA dissertation on the linguistic landscape of the Scottish lowlands from 900 until 1700, and besides linguistic history I'm decently informed about the Lowlands in general. What do you want to know?

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>>1783490
What sets them apart from Highlanders and Southrons?

They speak a dialect of Anglo-Saxon (Scots) and many of their towns and cities are germanic in origin owing mainly to their Northumbrian roots (Berwick, Jedburgh, Edinburgh etc).

For the most part of the Middle Ages up until around about the 1600's, the Borderers on both sides of the English-Scottish border were somewhat autonomous, the Border Reivers would often raid one another regardless of nationality but through a "clan" system. It wasn't until the late Stuart era did the fighting eventually die down.

Not much else to say really, many Borderers were involved in the Ulster plantations and some immigrated to the USA and other British colonies.

t. family from Hawick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzqNSAbE7Fo

>>1783456
>when you're so poor you can't even afford the real death and have to get the cheap knockoff instead

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA4fx3eLUyE
Who were the covenanters and why their songs so good?

>>1783556
They were Calvinist dickheads who got butthurt over BASED King Charles I's liturgy

>not exclusively listening to Royalist ballads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN55RceP41c

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>>1783572
>Charles the first
>based
oh am i laffin

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>>1783600
>current year
>being a Whig

Lad...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkDKt-sl2SE

>>1783515
What doesn't? Culture, religion, language, dress, music, literature, etc.

>>1783600

>being this bluepilled

Charles was fucking right and his trial was illegal

>With quiet dignity the King exasperated the Commissioners by refusing to answer the charges against him. He did not recognise the jurisdiction of the High Court and challenged the basis on which the purged House of Commons could claim to represent the people of England. Each session ended with Bradshaw ordering the soldiers to remove the King—thus emphasising the overriding presence of the Army in the proceedings and underlining the King's claim that the present administration was a worse threat to the liberty and welfare of the people of England than he had ever been.

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>>1783812
>Charles was fucking right and his trial was illegal
This is cavaliers actually believe

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ7greLmS3I

>>1783795
How are their cultures different?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YIA1i0pBtw

>>1783842
Well take all the things I mentioned

>religion
Highlanders are traditionally Catholic, Lowlanders are traditionally Calvinist, England is traditionally Anglican
>language
Highlanders traditionally speak Gaelic, Lowlanders traditionally speak Scots, England traditionally speaks English
>dress
Highland dress usually reflects whatever trends were happening in Ireland and during certain periods Scandinavia, Lowland dress usually reflects whatever trends were happening in England and France, but with more bonnets and buff coats
>music
Highland music again usually reflects Irish music, they even had their own bardic tradition well into the 18th century, whereas Lowland music is more influenced by English and continental music, particularly that of Northern England
>literature
Highland literature is like Irish literature mostly poetic or annalistic, but Lowland literature was more influenced by the Epics of the classical period than anything else

>>1784275
>Lowland literature was more influenced by the Epics of the classical period than anything else

Whose classical period?

>>1784933
THE classical period, ya doofus. Greece n Rome

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Who was more /fa/?

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>>1784950
What Lowland literature are you referring to?

>>1784955
highlanders honestly but also less suited for the fray

>>1784955
They are border rievers, not lowlanders, borderers get a bit tetchy at being called either Scots or English

Can someone recommend some reading about the Border reivers? Got the osprey books about them already.

Don't get nearly enough recognition when it comes to Scotland, despite being more successful than the Highlanders, and making up the majority of the population.

>tfw no cool Lowlands dress though

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>>1783812
Goodnight sweet prince.

>>1785044
Highlanders kicked ass man for man, ie: "in the fray". That was what the "highland/Irish charge" was all about: forcing lowland pussies to fight closer than the length of a pike.

They were just more poorly armed and not as organised.

>>1786365
>MUH HIGHLAND CHARGE
Because running in a ragged formation against sustained volley fire and trained pike men is so effective...

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>>1786283
https://www.amazon.com/The-Steel-Bonnets-Anglo-Scottish-Reivers/dp/1632204568/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=51QPmlcUJuL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR102%2C160_&refRID=0HSKCRKDNVWWR9AVKKNP

Great book that walks the line between scholarly and entertaining.

Same author of the Flashman series if you're familiar.

>>1784275
>>1784950
seriously, what literature are you referring to specifically?

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>>1783459
That cunt and his people are litterally a short ferry ride away from their Scottish homeland. Just fuck off back there. Send the Irish in Scotland back to Ireland in turn. The Turks and Greeks did this on a much larger scale and amidst the turmoil of the immediate aftermath of WW1.

Pic related. THE REAL FLAG OF ULSTER.

>>1783285
Why are Scots allowed to exist?

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>>1786874
>paddies still mad

>>1786878
Because they'd kick your shite clean in so they would.

>>1783668
>loyal to a zionist royal family

Jesus Christ. Long live the Luftwaffe.

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>>1786884
While Catholics, Orthodox Christians and even Lutherans were fighting and dying to keep Muslim scum out of Europe, Calvinist vermin were cooperating with the Ottomans and even Barbary Corsairs.

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>>1786916
Turks in Europe? Wew, I wonder who caused that?

>>1786898
BOMBER HARRIS DO IT AGAIN

Could someone explain this concept to me? So tumultenous times and the sort of lawlessness created a situation where some people could lead a lifestyle of robbing and then getting robbed themselves next month?

>>1786633
The Wallace, The Brus, The Cronikyl of Scotland, The Scotichronicon, etc.

>>1786957
>ywn make your livelihood through cheeky border runs
>ywn engage in top notch banter with a pursuing warden on a hot trod
>ywn get pissed with said warden on a truce day

alack and alas

>>1787046
cheers m8

>>1786957
Basically it went like this, the Borderlands were the theater for the innumerable skirmishes between the English and Scottish crowns. Naturally the people living in the Marches became rather cynical toward royal authority (on both sides of the border) given that it had turned their homeland into perpetual war zone. Many turned to reiving as a means of supporting themselves because more honest forms of employment couldn't develop in a land where one's accommodations were likely to be put to fire and sword on a king's whim.

March Law was developed to impose some form of order on the Borderlands but the wardens tasked with enforcing it quickly learned the appeal of reiving themselves. So you ended up with a situation where lawmen and outlaws were often in cahoots against the distant royals who had little regard for either the Borderlands or Bordermen.

However after the Union of the Crowns the constant warfare which facilitated the reiver lifestyle ended and the Marches became Shires.

True Lothian boy here ama

>>1786878
Why are you allowed to exist?

>>1787554
what do you drink?

>>1787910
A lot

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>>1783459
>>1786884
WE

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>>1788051
You tried this meme the other day and everyone ignored you m8

>>1788029
har har cunt

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>>1788051
WUZ

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>>1788934
PRESIDENTS

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>>1789813
It's weird how they keep banging on about James Buchanan when he's pretty consistently voted the worst President in US history.

Also this quote is made up, which is a little pathetic.

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>>1789867
but a president nonetheless

>>1789867
Wait a minute, they're genuinely proud of James "lol looks like I can't stop the Civil War" Buchanan?

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>>1790397
the civil war couldn't be stopped

>>1786365
So basically they were thick as shit.
Gottit.