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To look Iberian/Greek is not a sin, but I agree with you that the majority of Scottish and Irish people are more similar the other people of Northern Europeans.
For example this Scottish rugby player is similar to typical Dutchmen looks.
I think you mean "migrated". In the UK the Vikings invaded then migrated after. The Anglos Saxons, from north Germany and Denmark, migrated. Vikings never took women with them, mixing with the local women. I do believe Viking women migrated to the British Isles.
Viking women did migrate to the parts of the British Isles which were under Viking rule for a while. However they were not that numerous, Viking expeditions usually comprised of males, when they reached the British Isles, they would take Celtic or Anglo-Saxon women for wives/concubines. Actually a good number of people in Manx, Herbrides ,Shetlands, Orkneys, Faroes Isles and Iceland are descended from unions of Scandinavian males and Celtic females dating from the Viking Age.
They're often lumped together for their supposed 'Celtic' connection but Scotland seems to be just as if not more connected to northern England and Norway as it does to Ireland. The exception would be Northern Ireland and Donegal which in some ways have more in common with southwestern Scotland than they do with the rest of Ireland.
Good question! Well according to a genetical study titled, "Population structure and genome-wide patterns of variation in Ireland and Britain". Genetically across the greatest levels of haplotype diversity is found in southern Europe( Iberia/Balkans) and lowest levels in Ireland and Scotland. Thus population of both countries are genetically close, the very slight differences are that the Scottish somehow lay between the English and the Irish.
Well, Scotland was inhabated by the 'Picti'. These Celtic peoples, so called by the Romans because they painted their bodies and faces, were locked off from England by Hadrian's wall. When the Western Roman Empire fell in 476, Hardrian's wall was no longer defended. The Angles and Saxons to the south largely reverted to paganism. The Picti, however, who were never under Roman (or Christian) influence anyway, remained unchanged in their Pagan and iron age life. But once Ireland was fully converted and adopted Christianity, the Picti were slowly taken over by the Gaels (Irish) who from Iona (western Scotland) set up a power base that included a way of life that revolved around monasteries. For more information, research the name, Saint Columba. The Picti adopted the name Scots and then spoke Gaelic.
Slightly off topic: Gaelic sounds so beautiful to me. It is a tragedy that it is spoken by so few. I know a speaker in LA. I only wish she had taught it to her daughter.
By the way, there are differences between Irish (Gaeilge) and Scot's Gaelic (Gaidhlig).
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I don't think it is that simple. Scotland has just as much in common with Ireland as it does with England. Scotland and Ireland both share a similar culture. Both Irish and Scots Gaelic are from Old Irish. This is why both countries have names using the Mc/Mac prefix. They also share a similar music tradition and a lot of their folktales are the same.
Both were Celtic in the past and both were invaded by England and are now majority English speaking countries.
I think all the countries of the British Isles are connected and have a lot of history and culture in common if truth be known.
I guess that Scotland would be very similar to England had not Saxons expelled from England by French would not have settled the lowlands....if Henry the VIII would have had beautifuls inheritors with Catherine, if Cromwell had not decided to exterminate the Irish and settled the island with Scots....had the UK not occupied and not starved the country to death packing their inhabitants in death ships to America, etc, etc, etc.
If those things would have never happened, maybe they would be very similar.
I guess that Scotland would be very similar to England had not Saxons expelled from England by French.
The Normans were not French. They were from Scandinavia, hence the name Nor-Man. Men from the north.
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