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    Wink National Normandy Tartan



    For the last year also, Normandy has a tartan called "National Normandy" deposited very officially in the Scotland and which commemorates the Norman mercenaries who settled down on the Scottish lands, after the crowning of Guillaume the Conqueror. Some of them are at the origin of big dynasties as the Sinclair or the Menzies. This region Normandy which wakes up from its torpor discovers today that it
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    Information:

    http://www.clanhay.net/HISTORY/Normandy_Roots.php

    That is a very striking tartan, thorveild.

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    I agree, that is a striking tartan! I have always known that any peoples not totally isolated are a mix. Glad to see that the origins of many of the "lowland Scots" is finally being recognized.
    Slàinte,
    The pipes are calling, resistance is futile. - MacTalla Mor

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    Wink re

    Indeed it represente our red and yellow flag has the double cross of saint- olaf and the black and white of the first Vikings who settled down in Normandy


    Good evening tothor of Normandy

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