Re: [scots-l] another place for Rob (or maybe Nigel) to visit

[David Kilpatrick]

John Chambers wrote:
> 
> Jack Campin writes:
> | Maybe the Kirghiz got it from Persia, but I can't see how any chain
> | of influence could have transmitted an instrument design from Persia
> | to Scotland in the Middle Ages either.
> 
> Not much mystery there, actually.  The  Norse  were  trading  through
> Russia  down to the Black Sea by at least the 800's.  They spread all
> sorts of things along their trade routes.
> 
And unless I'm mistaken, the Rus were Vikings in origin and European Russia owed as 
much
to Nordic influence as Scotland and England did, only a bit earlier.

David
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