The Scots Gaelic Myth

[Allan Thomson]

But again I am questioning your evidence for that & whether it is right to consider Gaelic as any more belonging to the landmass we call Scotland than English. Both are outside incursions pushing into what was a P Celt country. The thing is that there's Pictish Crosses commemorating.battles with the Nothumbrians and Northumbrian Halter fragments found in the Montrose area before the period of the rise of the Kingdom of Scotland. So for the Lowlands a Saxon tongue was in place well before (if there ever was one) a Gaelic incursion into any significant part of Lowland Scotland at all - both obliterating an earlier P Celt tongue.

I'm in favour of Gaelic signs in the Highlands & Gaelic medium education in the Islands. What I am opposed to is the desire to cover over true history in a highly political move to make out that all of Scotland somehow should be Gaelic.