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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 03 April 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_edsells@cogeco.ca" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Ed Alexander <<a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca
</a>> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.04.03 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
At 08:15 AM 04/03/07 -0700, </span><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">John
Welch</font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" type="cite"><font size="2">I
thought that the Slavonic and specifically Russian identification with
the "Scythians" only occurred in the late nineteenth century
and was a phenomenon of nineteenth-century nationalism, when nation
states emphasised their uniqueness and raison d'etre by identifying
their original ancestors, such as the Anglo Saxons, Celts or Gauls. This
provides much of the humour of Asterix the Gaul and also led to Alexander
Blok's very silly early 20th century poem "The
Scyths".</font></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Perhaps the greatest proven influence of the Scythians was producing
Dionysius Exiguus, the monk to whom we owe our present world year
numbering system. In 526 A.D., Pope John I asked him to provide a
more scientific way of calculating the date of Easter into the future
(linked forever to the Hebrew calculation for determining Passover by
both the sun and the moon). As almost a footnote, he also reformed
the calendar to date from the year One being the birth of Jesus
(remember, people, no zero in the West until after the Crusades), since
in the then current system it was the year 242 since the ascendancy of
Diocletian, who was also a great persecutor of Christians. We think
they knew that they got the year wrong by as much as six years, but it
worked so well with his Easter calculations, that they just let it
slide</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" type="cite"><font size="2">And
Marcel Bas wrote:</font>
<dl><dd>Blame Canada!</dd></dl></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Since we are famous for our politeness, I will thank you for your
sentiments. We are always glad to take a little heat off our
neighbours to the south.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="#008000"><b><br>Ed Alexander</b></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">
<br></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
From: </span><span id="_user_sjswelch@yahoo.com.au" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">john welch</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:sjswelch@yahoo.com.au">
sjswelch@yahoo.com.au</a>></span><span id="_user_edsells@cogeco.ca" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.04.03 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">David Clarke wrote:</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"thought that the Slavonic and
specifically Russian identification with the "Scythians" only occurred
in the late nineteenth century and was a phenomenon of
nineteenth-century nationalism, when nation states emphasised their
uniqueness and raison d'etre by identifying their original ancestors".</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well
OK. The Poles would co-incide with Scots (and Irish opinion about
Scots) about Scythia. There are plenty of other warrior sagas (Goths,
Teutons, Sarmatians) but 3 countries have voted for Skythes. One would
expect a legend of #*^(@ the hero of the Polcski, or MacDheywqau king
of Scutiach.</div> <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">John</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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