Talk:Economy of Scotland in the High Middle Ages

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"There is a lot of evidence that the native Scots favoured pastoralism, in that Gaelic lords were happier to give away more land to French and English-speaking settlers, whilst holding on tenaciously to more high-lying regions, perhaps contributing to the Highland/Galloway-Lowland division that emerged in Scotland in the later Middle Ages."

Hmm... I think this is highly subjective, and highly debatable for a number of reasons. --MacRusgail 20:24, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Great. Care to name any? BTW, you removed a passage which was heavily cited without also removing the note from the notes section. - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 20:46, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, in actual fact, it has been suggested that the Book of Deer was written because a lot of the Gaels' land deeds in the Lowlands were not written down, and to counter the Anglo-Norman takeover. There are also claims of this in McKerlie's histories of Galloway. The Normans are said to have squatted on various pieces of turf claiming that because there were no written deeds prior to the ones they had done for themselves, that they owned the land. A bit like what MacLeod of Dunvegan tried to do recently, when he wanted to sell chunks of the Cuillins. --MacRusgail 19:16, 21 April 2006 (UTC)