Humza Yousaf just announced that he is resigning as SNP party leader and First Minister of Scotland. Thank God

Someone sent this to me the other day. Documentary type presentation from BBC Scotland about Celtic music in the Spanish region of Galicia; Irish and Scottish musicians toured the region to explore and share musical traditions. It’s mostly narrated in Scottish Gaelic but has English subtitles. 🇪🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NP6a_MdJa1I

Scene from a carved stone slab found at St. Andrew’s Church in Andreas, Isle of Man; 10th century AD. 🇮🇲 The scene depicts the Germanic hero Sigurd the Völsung, roasting the heart of the dragon Fafnir over a fire. In this particular scene, Sigurd is shown sucking his own finger as he cooks.

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In addition to what’s discussed in the below article, the possibility exists that this “Stone of Scone” is not, in fact, the original coronation stone of the Scottish monarchs. The stone was taken from Scone, in Scotland, by king Edward I of England, during his 1296 invasion. There is a theory that the monks of Scone Abbey hid the Scottish kings’ coronation stone prior to the English king’s arrival, either placing it in the river Tay, or burying it in the ruins of a old hill-fort on Dunsinane Hill, and that the English king was tricked into taking a substitute. Some versions of the theory even posit that it was afterward entrusted to Aonghus Óg MacDomhnaill by the future king of Scotland, Robert the Bruce, and taken to be hidden somewhere in the Hebrides, ultimately ending up on the Isle of Skye.

Another theory revolves around the fact that the stone taken by Edward and kept for centuries in Westminster Abbey was stolen and taken back to Scotland by a group of Scottish students in 1950. It took British police four months to locate and recover the stone. Rumors circulated that the item they recovered was not the original, but that a stonemason had been hired to craft a replica so that the police would recover a forgery. However, this is not likely the case, as it has now been shown by geologists that the stone recently used for king Charles III’s coronation is indeed Old Red Sandstone that was quarried near Scone. It’s somewhat unlikely that a stonemason working in 1951 would have been so careful as to use locally quarried stone to create a forgery with which to trick the authorities. Still, the theory that the stone currently displayed at the Perth Museum is a fake and that the original Stone of Scone is somewhere on the Isle of Skye remains a viable one.

https://www.sott.net/article/491088-Experts-say-that-the-Stone-of-Destiny-was-a-doorstep

I went there 2 weeks ago. On the bottom left, there is the cairn of Gavrinis. Old tomb from Neolithic era.

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Gold coin (1 stater; 7.29 g) of the Gallic king Vercingetorix, found at an unspecified location in Auvergne, France; 1st century B.C. 🇫🇷

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Fionn mac Cumhaill gets the Salmon of Knowledge from his tutor; illustration by Scottish artist Harold Robert Millar. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

The scene recreated here is from the Irish tale The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn. The tale recounts how the Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhaill had been wandering Ireland during his youth and hiding from his father’s enemies, who were trying to hunt him down. At a certain point, he met the bard (minstrel) Finn Eces, who lived near the river Boyne, and began an apprenticeship with him. Finn Eces had been trying to catch a special fish with supernatural qualities, the Salmon of Knowledge (Irish: An Bradán Feasa) for seven years without success. The salmon was said to contain all the knowledge in the universe, due to having eaten nine hazelnuts —hazel was the Celtic tree of knowledge— that fell into the otherworldly “Well of Wisdom” (Irish: Tobar Segais, Tobar Nechtain, or Tobar Chonnlae).

One day, Finn Eces finally caught the coveted salmon, then handed it to Fionn with instructions to cook it, but not to eat any of it. Fionn followed the instructions, but accidentally consumed some of the salmon when he sucked his thumb after burning it while cooking the fish. In this way, Fionn was inadvertently endowed with all the knowledge contained in the salmon, thereby becoming clairvoyant. From then on, Fionn was said to be able to gain knowledge about anything in the universe simply by biting down on his thumb.

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