Dun: means old fortess and Dee is the name of a river, hence Dun Dee means the castle on the river Dee.
Incidentally, to give an insight into the workings of certain freak-ass church thinking, my old church used to argue that the large number of place-names with the construction D_n in Ireland and Scotland identified these places as the home of the Israelite tribe of Dan. (Jacob prophesies about his kids on his deathbed, having nothing better to do, and says something about Dan and a serpent's trail, which said church interpreted as meaning he'd leave his name on everything. A bit like Donald Trump. ...Hey, hang on a minute! Donald? Quick, we need a rewrite!)
One of the splinter group then tried to fit in the Ancient Greeks, or the Danaans as they were sometimes known. That was quite the imaginative leap.
So, your freak-ass church wasn't much for logical history, was it?
Also, I mean, who diasporas to Scotland from Jerusalem? Gee, you know, it's nice and warm down here, but we're being persecuted a lot by these imperial Romans-- I know! Let's flee to a freezing cold, windy country, where we can get persecuted a lot by imperial Englishmen!
Zero sum, yanno?
Well, the Lost Tribes of Israel got around rather a lot. No wonder they were lost.
So, your freak-ass church wasn't much for logical history, was it?
It has been commented upon.
Also, I mean, who diasporas to Scotland from Jerusalem?
On this point, note that Dan was among the Israelites forcibly removed by the Assyrians. (Jerusalem was part of Judah's territory.) So they didn't have much choice on the leaving part at least. (Of course, that still doesn't get them to Ireland.)
Your freak-ass church is clearly related to the people who put Troy in Belgium. There are a frightening lot of such people.
I thought that the plural for grouse was grouse.
Your freak-ass church is clearly related to the people who put Troy in Belgium. There are a frightening lot of such people.
Troy featured in my Pictionary game on Saturday night. Bec drew a very attractive horse with a missing belly and a ladder leading into it to communicate "Helen of Troy".
And here I thought the plural for grouse was curmudgeons.
the Lost Tribes of Israel got around rather a lot.
They got to Jamaica. Maybe they came via Scotland.
the Lost Tribes of Israel got around rather a lot.
They got to Jamaica. Maybe they came via Scotland.
See, they were taking the whole "being lost" thing very seriously. But being pursued all over the galaxy by those pesky Cylon chappies and their Imperious Leader won't have helped, to be fair. Small wonder they got around.
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