Hmmm. not in those temperatures, I shouldn’t think, Bob. If so, the clan
chieftain would have had a hard time getting me out of my warm trews to go into
battle, claymore or no ;-)
Perhaps it was further back in Pictish times, or something.
Chris
On 20 Sep 2014, at 14:11, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I recall, Scots used to swarm into battle buck naked. It wasn’t until
> relatively recently that they started wrapping themselves in dresses. The
> only reason no one called them names was those honking big swords they
> carried. <g>
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