Originally Posted by
Jock Scot
Grizzbass.
I am afraid religion and the history of the various aspects of it are of little interest to me. Interestingly, rightly or wrongly, I tend to connect Druids to Stonehenge in Southern England and parts of Wales, but connecting them to Scotland is, I am afraid, well beyond my ken.
Stonehenge is much, much older and it was finished about 1700 years before there were Celts and Druids in Britain. Stonehenge was as old to the Druids as Hadrian's Wall is to us.
The Gaelic Scots didn't get to Scotland until after the Romans had left (they invaded from Ireland and "Scoti" was the Roman name for the Irish). Caledonia was inhabited by Briton tribes related to the Welsh. That is where the Picts likely were. They were tough guys and the Romans were eventually handed their adzes to them by those tribes. The Gaels don't seem to have pushed them out but rather they slowly merged with each other to create the modern Scotus Horribilus Kiltii.
Those ancient U Nialls from Donegal were a randy bunch.
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