{"id":5628,"date":"2008-11-18T22:25:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/bletherskite\/?p=144"},"modified":"2008-11-18T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T22:25:05","slug":"campaign-to-return-scotlands-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/?p=5628","title":{"rendered":"Campaign to Return Scotland&#8217;s Birth Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Scotland&#8217;s Birth Certificate&#8217; describes the earliest surviving record of the country&#8217;s existence. This ancient document which is 1,000 years old is being held in the national library of France, where it has been since the 17th century.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39707\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39707\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/margo-macdonald-407x255.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39707\" alt=\"Margo MacDonald MSP\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/margo-macdonald-407x255.jpg\" width=\"407\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Margo MacDonald MSP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A campaign has been launched top return this unique piece of Scotland&#8217;s past returned to Scotland. MSP Margo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scottish-clans\/clan-macdonald\">MacDonald<\/a> and archaeologist and presenter of the BBC&#8217;s &#8216;The History of Scotland&#8217; Neil Oliver, are actively joining the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Manuscript contains the very first mention of the country Albanium &#8211; the Latinised version of the Gaelic name for Scotland. The rare text is a list of the 12 Kings of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scotland\/kings-queens\/the-house-of-alpin\/\">House of Alpin<\/a> &#8211; Scotland&#8217;s first Royal Family. And charts the particularly bloody decade of Scotland&#8217;s history from the reign of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scotland\/kings-queens\/0843-mcalpine\/\">Kenneth MacAlpin<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotclans.com\/scotland\/kings-queens\/0971-kenneth2\/\">Kenneth II<\/a>, who died in 995. It explains how Scotland was unified under the Alpin family.<\/p>\n<p>Translations of the text reveal a very bloody account of each of the Kings and their achievements. Of Kenneth I it says &#8220;He attacked Saxonia six times; and burnt down Dunbar and captured Melrose&#8221;, but that he died of a &#8220;tumour&#8221; in the palace of Fortevoit. The authors also wrote of their intollerance of what was considered failure of King Aed, who ruled from 877 to 878, it was written: &#8220;The shortness of his rule has left nothing memorable to history; but he was killed in the town of Nrurim&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>We at ScotClans will be avidly following this campaign and are extremely keen to read a translation of this document in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Scotland&#8217;s Birth Certificate&#8217; describes the earliest surviving record of the country&#8217;s existence. This ancient document which is 1,000 years old is being held in the national library of France, where it has been since the 17th century. A campaign has been launched top return this unique piece of Scotland&#8217;s past returned to Scotland. MSP Margo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57,49,7,58],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-5628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-house-of-alpin","category-macalpine","category-macdonald","category-scottish-history","category-scottish-kings-and-queens","tag-macalpin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project1-m9gb2xku8.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}