Quote Originally Posted by Superdan View Post
I'm reading that book as well! it is very interesting the way "titles" were so blatantly based on your personality. i'm not sure i have the objectivity to say what my own might be. but i enjoyed reading about Magnus Bare-legs King of Norway 1093-1103 so named for his fondness of the Scottish kilt!

it just goes to show that foreigners have a a long history of hi-jacking the traditional highland garb
and getting it wrong, or at least the person who wrote the book was wrong, according to the many discussions here on the Kilt, the Breacan an Fhéilidh or great kilt wasn't invented till the 16th century.
he would have been wearing a variation on the léine with maybe a skin or blanket for additional warmth