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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by tacomonstrous on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:28AM (#13939997)
It's not an unreasonable legend. Conventional wisdom is that all Indo-Europeans sprang from the steppes of Central Asia. Having it mentioned in a 14th century declaration is pretty fascinating!
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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by arethuza on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:34AM (#13940058)
Given the context of the Declaration (i.e. The First Scottish War of Independence) it sounds to me like propaganda trying to claim an ancient and separate lineage for the Scots.

Mind you the Declaration is a great document - proclaiming Scottish freedom and saying that while Robert the Bruce is a cool guy if he doesn't turn out to be a good king then he'll be sacked and another one found from somewhere. Which is a fairly novel idea for kings.

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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by throwaway91111 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:06AM (#13940353)
The proto-indo-European migration is thought to have been a cultural and linguistic migration, not a mass physical migration or a conquest.
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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by clw8 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:31PM (#13946132)
Source on that? IE spread from the Dnieper River area to Western Europe and Western China in a rather short amount of time. Clearly there was a lot of migration from the Urheimat.
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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by empath75 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:31AM (#13940026)
Sort of. The languages did. But there were people in Scotland before any indo Europeans got there.
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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by wavefunction on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:12PM (#13943779)
And people before those people, most likely!
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Re:Ancient Romans depicted Huns as barbarians – their bones ... by mason240 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:09AM (#13940374)
That is was written in the 14th century makes it very suspect.
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