[at-l] Re: Historical Facts? (was nickname)

[saunterer@jimbullard.org (saunterer@jimbullard.org)]

At 05:35 PM 1/12/02 -0500, Dave Hicks wrote:
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>From: <saunterer@jimbullard.org>
>
> > Historical facts?  'What is recorded' is probably a more accurate
>statement.
>
>Somewhere in my reading of Scottish "history", I read that the winners write
>the history; the losers the ballads, poetry, folklore, tradition, legends
>[or something like that] and the truth lies somewhere between.

That has the ring of truth, as Gandalf once said.

sAunTerer