@SeraphimDawn  
No Idea

@wselfwulf  
What are the similarities between Scottish and Irish Gaelic?

@Mephistopheles
 
@SeraphimDawn  
and yet the must be enough speakers of Gaelic to warrant a dedicated Tv and radio stations.

@wselfwulf  
@SeraphimDawn
 
At least they still have Scots. (different from Scottish Gaelic)

@wselfwulf  
That’s sad.

@SeraphimDawn  
Nope unless it’s Gaelic school. It’s pretty much a dead language in most of Scotland.

@SeraphimDawn  
@SeraphimDawn
 
By the way, the map on this image is obsolete. The new version is here: >>602553
 
This time, I’ve included more areas for unicorns and Pegasi, if that’s what concerns you.

@Mephistopheles  
I heard there are some Gaelic speaking communities over there.

@wselfwulf  
Just like how Quebec is trying to be more “French” than their cousins in France.
 
Do they teach Gaelic in schools in Scotland?

@wselfwulf  
Not to mention Nova Scotia (New Scotland).

@SeraphimDawn  
Yea I know, a lot of Canadians descended from Scottish ancestry. In fact there is a town in Canada that’s trying to be more Scottish than the Scots.

@wselfwulf  
John A was from Glasgow.  
There are many people in Canada with Scottish ancestry.

@SeraphimDawn  
I thought he was lol

@SeraphimDawn  
The form of the unicorn changed as the mythology was transmitted throughout the Old World. Since the ibexes and the oryxes that were historically common the Middle East and Central Asia are absent in Europe, it makes sense that the European unicorn took on a more equine form.
 
Still, there were still some differences between the European unicorn and a horse besides the horn.
 

@Mephistopheles  
Most of the “unicorns” that are mentioned in Asian and Middle Eastern records are more like goats rather than horses. They only took their iconic horse form through European folklore.
 
@wselfwulf  
I bet you Canada’s first Prime Minister John A MacDonald was a Scottish unicorn.

@wselfwulf  
The point I’m trying to make is that the Pictish unicorn could be a cultural influence from the Romans and not necessarily an autochthonous development. The fact that the Picts left no written records on their own makes it worse, since the most reliable alternatives would then be Roman records and archaeology. And judging by the attestation of spangenhelms and crossbows (both Roman influences) in the Pictish arsenal, there’s a safe bet that the Romans have left a cultural imprint as well.

@Mephistopheles  
yea that’s when most of pictish history was written down but the problem with that is It was a second hand account because it was written by the Romans not the picts them selves plus they where attested in written records from before the Roman conquest of Britain to the 10th century. for example the reason we refer to these people as the Picts is because that is what the Romans called them and it was not in fact what the picts called them selves, In fact we don’t know what they called them selves. The word pict in there language meant “Place of” and because of this the Romans mistakenly thought it was the name of there people. the point being most of pictish history isn’t actually know because the Picts didn’t right anything down and the Romans only got as far firth of forth in Scotland but yet carvings of unicorns can be found as far north as Isles of sky.

@wselfwulf  
Picts were first attested by Eumenius in 297 AD, well after Britain was colonized by Romans. As with other peoples along the borders of the Roman Empire, there certainly would have been cultural as well as material exchanges between the Picts and the Romano-Britons.

@Mephistopheles  
I know this because of working in heritage center, Im trying to find a online source but all I’m find is about the Scottish royal coats of arms but the reason for that goes back to before there was even a Scotland and this part of the world was Pictish, around Late Iron Age. What you have said about the Greeks is true but the problem with the Unicorn is that most culture have a unicorn of some description so there isn’t an exact area of origin.

@wselfwulf  
Interesting. Can you link me to a source?

@Mephistopheles  
and yet Celtic unicorns appeared in Scotland before the first contact with Jews or the ancient Greeks

@wselfwulf  
Unicorns are quite popular in heraldry across Europe, not just Scotland.

And you completely ignored the Celtic unicorns of Scotland.

For some reason, I found myself laughing towards the end… The idea this is a equivalent ends up becoming crazy blurred.
 
And then the unicorns were Jews.

@Mephistopheles  
Military tactician for Shu, Zhuge Liang, who you may be familiar with in the Dynasty Warriors series, was also born in the Shandong.