Quote Originally Posted by paulhenry View Post
I know all about this, and I'm afraid that it is also rather fanciful, the stuff of myths and legends, and although there might be a few grains of truth somewhere within the stories , but not enough to be very creditable.
Wasn't suggesting otherwise, just that the reference properly was to ancient Ireland rather than more recent Scotland. The Gaelic culture being highly oral, it's likely that anything written down about it would have been done in the Christian era, and unsupported by archeological evidence (textiles in burials, for instance) would pretty much have to be taken simply as legend.