[Leica] Highlands PAW 06

[John McMaster]

Indeed, this area and the Caithness flag (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Flag_of_Caithness.svg)  have far more Norse heritage than Gaelic.  

One day, the two of us should meet up Piers.....

john

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.uk at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of piers--- via LUG
Sent: 10 February 2019 18:04
To: Leica Users Group
Cc: piers at hemy.org
Subject: Re: [Leica] Highlands PAW 06

Agreed, Don, but the pace names where John lives give clear evidence that
your arrival by longboat would not be the first!

Lybster, Ulbster, Camster are certainly not Scots in origin, nor Gaelic.
Just insert an 'e' to make ....seter and you have clear Norse names. And
about ten miles away is Wick, or Vik as it undoubtedly once was. And a
little further south, around me, there are numerous ....dal place names, as
well as Dingwall, otherwise Thingvollr.

But I will keep a lookout for the second coming!

Piers

On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 at 13:59, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Your seascapes are wonderful.  I do hope you have made a few large prints
> even though you can view the scene out your window.  Even though you are
> considerably south of Sweden, with views like that I would build a longboat
> and go...
>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 6:47 AM John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Just a couple this week, one with and other without a bird over the
> > highlights ;-)
> >
> > http://johnmcmaster.com/PAW/2019/06
> >
> > C & C welcome
> >
> > john
> >