At 1/19/08 04:35 PM, Bullion wrote:
Celts > Vikings, come take the shetlands back, i dare you.
Weren't they a Part of Scotland Initially, And We were ones to actually take it, And just got it back....So No real loss for us?
I mean, We've basically colonized the Entire Celtic Nations Probably, each one at It's individual Time...
I mean, We took the shetlands, And Sold them back..
Wiki Quote:
In the 14th century Norway still treated Orkney and Shetland as a Norwegian province, but Scottish influence was growing, and in 1379 the Scottish earl Henry Sinclair took control of Orkney on behalf of the Norwegian king Håkon VI Magnusson.
In 1348 Norway was severely weakened by the Black Plague and in 1397 it entered the Kalmar Union. With time Norway came increasingly under Danish control. King Christian I of Denmark and Norway was in financial troubles and, when his daughter Margaret became engaged to James III of Scotland in 1468, he needed money to pay her dowry
Apparently without the knowledge of the Norwegian Riksråd (Council of the Realm) he entered into a contract on 8 September 1468 with the King of Scotland in which he pawned Orkney for 50,000 Rhenish guilders.
On 28 May the next year he also pawned Shetland for 8,000 Rhenish guilders. He secured a clause in the contract which gave future kings of Norway the right to redeem the islands for a fixed sum of 210 kg of gold or 2,310 kg of silver. Several attempts were made during the 17th and 18th centuries to redeem the islands, without success.
Took the Isle of man, And you got it Back.
Basically, We've just been Pwning you, Deciding Your countries Suck ass, Leaving those shitholes, And Pwning you even Further by Leaving Norse Influence on your Culture.