OT: grandparents who raped and pillaged

[Laura Creighton]

> Laura Creighton wrote:
> > 
> > Correct, but we went from Lawless, to Law imposed by the English, as
> > occupiers.  In our area of Scotland, at any rate, the Scottish Law
> > you mention was only for deals within the Scottish Noble classes
> > (we didn't have any merchants, as far as my grandfather was able
> > to research).  But the Lairds ruled their clansmen as absolute
> > despots in our area of the world.  Reading about it makes me think
> > that my ancestors resembled a motorcycle gang of roving arsonists,
> > robbers, and rapists rather than the picturesque laddies in kilts ...
> 
> Welcome to the club.  In my case, replace the motorcycles with
> cute little ships with dragon heads on the front, stick a pair
> of horns on our helmets, and you've got the picture right. :-)
> 
> -looking-on-others-with-dis-dane-ly yr's,
>  Peter
> -- 

Actually, I am told that there really weren't horns on the helmets.
Some anthropologist got it wrong, but everybody liked the idea anyhow.
So its back to the Society of Creative Anachronism, and Middle Ages
the Way We Wish it Had Been.

For the Ship -- check out http://hem.passagen.se/keer0805/svse.htm
We've got one.  Local.  These people are truly wonderful and truly
insane.

Just-another-benefit-to-living-in-Göteborg'ly
Laura