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Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond

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Most experts agree this song is about the 1746 Battle of Culloden but there’s disagreement about who is singing and what they are doing. You can read about some of those at Wikipedia. The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond, sung by Ella Roberts The way I learned it—from Grandma Swanstrom, I think—the singer is a woman who has lost her lover in the war. “Ye’ll take the high road, and...

Scotland to America, 1596

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“An entry in a late sixteenth-century register has revealed that a ship known as “William” of Aberdeen made a voyage to “the new fund land” (Newfoundland) in 1596. It is the earliest documented reference to a Scottish ship sailing to North America.“ “Historian discovers earliest evidence of a Scottish ship sailing to North America“, Medievalists.net (Dec. 2018). This...

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