Talk:Caledonia

message: The article notes that the name is often used "poetically", as confirmed by its referenced source and by Webster's New World Dictionary 1986, but I do not know personally of any examples of poetic usage, and this was mainly the information I was looking for in the article. 216.115.11.39 (talk) 00:01, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poetic Usage Examples 

message: A map would be nice.  The Jade Knight 08:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But probably 90% guesswork. On the OS map of Ancient Britain, Caledonii is indeed marked, but apart from the fact that Dunkeld is plausibly derived from their name, I don't think anyone knows exactly where the Caledonians and Caledonia were in relation to other tribes or confederations. Atholl, or maybe just northern Perthshire, are reasonable guesses. Angus McLellan 19:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: There is also a song named Caledonia by Celtic Women 70.121.244.60  (talk) 20:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well sort of. They sang it but it's actually the Dougie MacLean song mentioned in the article. Quite a few people have covered it. -- Derek Ross | Talk 17:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Celtic Thunder covered it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0KZjmiL7xs&feature=related -John in Cinci IP  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.83.23.189 (talk) 05:40, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, as I said above, them and a bunch of other people. Read the Caledonia (song) article if you want to find out who they all were. -- Derek Ross | Talk 07:28, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Celtic Women song

message: Is this really just about "Caledonia as a name for Scotland" because it seems like it's also part disambiguation page? I think someone might have muddled up the pages. I'm going to move all of these links over to the disambig. page and delete them from this page.--France3470 01:07, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion 

message: The Scoti came from Spain, not ireland.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.200.171 (talk) 17:43, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not hardly. See Scoti. — Huntster (t • @ • c) 20:03, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Scoti" is term the Romans originally used for Gaelic conducting raids on Roman Britain; later the term applied to all the peoples living in present-day Scotland after the Gaels eventually began settling there.  Long before this period, early adoption of Celtic culture in Irish populations appeared and may have originally arisen out of interactions and or immigrations between Celtic peoples in Iberia or Britain. (See Celtiberian_language and Celtic_settlement_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland.) Assuming this is what the original comment meant to address, then in a historical sense the comment is correct, however only indirectly; it would be at best misleading to state that "the Scoti are from Spain," since the Romans specifically applied the term to peoples coming from Ireland. — Dan (talk) 13:21, 13 August 2010 (UTC)

text: Rubbish. This is not the place for your WP:FRINGE.50.111.58.135 (talk) 11:54, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Scoti

message: "New Caledonia" which is a "sui generis collectivity" (in practice an overseas territory) of France, made up of a main island (Grande Terre), the Loyalty Islands, and several smaller islands. It is located in the region of Melanesia in the southwest Pacific. At about half the size of Taiwan, it has a land area of 18,575.5 square kilometres (7,172 sq mi). The population was 240,400 inhabitants as of January 2007 official estimates.[1] It has an Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of .nc. The capital and largest city of the territory is Nouméa. The currency is the CFP franc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.165.163.114 (talk) 05:54, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  See Also 

message: Does anyone know the relevance to the Celtic Woman song 'Caledonia'?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.223.7.186 (talk) 20:41, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See above, they covered the Dougie MacLean song. FlagSteward (talk) 14:11, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song 

message: Substituted at 10:43, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: The Historia Brittonum reference to Coit Celadon looks well enough sourced, but it's pure original research and unrelated speculation to say "Traces of such mythology have endured until today in Midlothian: near the city centre of Edinburgh stands an old volcanic mountain called Arthur's Seat." A good source is needed to show any connection between that and Caledonia. .  dave souza, talk 20:04, 27 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Arfur's Seat

message: Hello, I added a sentence to the opening paragraph making note of the fact that Caledonia was the first and oldest recorded name for the area that would become Scotland. Any reason why this was removed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.4.16.225 (talk) 20:27, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Very, very strange, I never saw these talk page edits on my watchlist. Sorry about that, never knew you wrote anything. As for the lead, material is not required to be cited in the lead if it is cited elsewhere in the body. Further, nothing should be added that is unsourced regardless of what else is already in the article, and the onus is on the original editor to back their edits, not all the other editors. If you can source your statement, then do so. — Huntster (t @ c) 01:03, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

text: Such a claim isn't obvious to the level of the sky is blue, so it needs a verifiable, published source to remain in the article. - BilCat (talk) 23:34, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Because another name may have been recorded by the Romans as being used earlier, regardless of what the Romans called it. - BilCat (talk) 00:39, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed First/Oldest Recorded Name