Where are the Scottish originally from?

Question

I.e where did they travel from,

i think it's Ireland but i'm not sure

Answer 1

Glasgow

Answer 2

We all came out of Africa about 300,000 years ago, so Im told by my intellectual superiors.

Answer 3

Ireland??

Surely You Mean Scotland

Answer 4

Thre was an indiginous tribe there already and then merged with vikings who invaded and then inhabited that coastline - as they did in Ireland.  hence the red hair.

Answer 5

Short Answer:  Many places; Scotland has been inhabited for 8,500 years.

Long Explanation:  The Scots like the English are a mix of several distinct cultures.  

1)  The original inhabitants of Caledonia were the Brythonic Celts, whom the Romans encountered to the North of the Roman-occupied province of Britannia.  These people were composed of two groups that correspond roughly to the inhabitants of the Highlands and Lowlands of contemporary Scotland.  The Picts lived North of the Forth while a group of Roman-influenced Brythonic Celts lived in  the area from the Firth of the Clyde southward.  Proto-Celtic culture formed in the Early Iron Age in Central Europe and spread rapidly over much of the Continent.

2)  In the 5th century CE, the Old Irish-speaking Scotti, or Scots, took possession of Argyll and the West of Scotland; their descendants would speak Scottish Gaelic.

3)  Anglo-Saxons from the Continent expanded into Southern Scotland in the 7th century; their descendants spoke--and still speak--a Scottish dialect of English.

4)  In the 8th and 9th-centuries, the Norse invaded and intermarried with the inhabitants of the Hebrides and the other Western Isles as well as Caithness and Sutherland.  

5)  After 1066, some Normans came North;  they occupied a similar position in Scottish society that their southern counterparts did in English society.  Robert the Bruce and Edward I were two Norman aristocrats battling for turf.

Present-day Scots and descendants of Scots in the United States, Canada, and Australia are probably a mixture of all of the above ethnic groups.  Additionally, in recent years, peoples from around the world have immigrated to Scotland just as they have to the rest of the United Kingdom and the European Union.  Scotland, like England, Canada, Australia, and the US is a multi-cultural society.

Answer 6

Scotland.  ;)

No seriously, in Northern Scotland, most are descended from the Pict's who were the original Scots and most likely descended from Vikings.

Southern and western Scotland had an influx of Celtic tribes from Ireland.

Answer 7

h**l

Answer 8

I've asked three of my Scottish friends. One is from Scotland, one is Polish and one came from England!

How far back do you want to go? Do you think Scotland was just sitting empty waiting for someone to arrive and declare themselves Scottish

To say "I think it is Ireland" does make you sound a little dumb.do you have an idea where the Irish came from for instance.

Do you mean the Celts or Kelts maybe

Do you mean how did  the Scottish nation form?

Answer 9

Um... from Scotland

Answer 10

Yes, they are (most recently) originally from Ireland.

Celts, overtook Scotland from the Picts. It is likely that being Scottish makes one a unique mixture of both. Bit like Anglo-Saxon.

Both the Celts and the Picts are European tribes of Germanic origin.

Norse (Viking) blood is usual amongst the coastline inhabitants of all the Germanic tribes.

Answer 11

My mum, who was Irish, told me that Ireland became crowded, so all the red heads were sent to Scotland.

I dont know if that is an oldwives tale or no    but when we traced our  Scottish Clan tartan name back thru history, the researcher said it originated in Ireland.

Answer 12

vikings!

Answer 13

Africa - like everyone else

Answer 14

They are one of the celtic tribes that came from Eastern Europe and gradually moved (or were pushed) westwards.  Where they came from before that is not recorded.

Answer 15

the Scottish originally come from Ireland i think your right they come from there

Answer 16

The earliest accounts of the Scotti are from Roman sources, particularly Ammianus Marcellinus who describes their relentless raids on Roman Britain. The Scotti are confirmed by later sources to be the Gaelic speaking inhabitants of Ireland. It would appear that the ancestors of the Gaels migrated across the sea from Celtic Gallaecia to Ireland and then established themselves as a dominant minority over other linguistically Celtic groups,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotti

However !

Leslie Alcock (1970) examined the archaeological evidence in detail and concluded that there was very little to support the idea that there was a 4th/5th century invasion from Ireland. Similarly, Foster finds no archaeological evidence for this migration. However, she concludes that distribution of artefacts and similarities in monument construction show close links between Antrim and Kintyre from the Neolithic onwards. The evidence also supports an extensive Gaelic-speaking presence during this period along Britain's western coast, including Cornwall, Devon, Dyfed, Anglesey and south-west Scotland.

http://www.postroman.info/scotti.html

Answer 17

vikings

Answer 18

mainly nordic, ie vikings and celts