The Lothians Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
former local government region of Scotland
About The Lothians
The Votadini buried their princess in about 600 AD on what would become Edinburgh Airport. But the headstone (visible when taxiing) was already 3000 years old, and the crags they lived upon were the plugs of a line of volcanoes thrown up over 300 million years ago. They inscribed the headstone in Latin, acquired in the Roman era, and their battles were described in the sagaY Gododdin. All this reflected a region that was lowland and easy to reach, that became part of an Anglo-Saxon kingdom based in Northumberland. It was only in 973 AD that "Laudian" was ceded to Scotland: a Glaswegian might say that the handover has yet to be implemented. Medieval Scottish monarchs were scared of English control and used the "Queen's ferry" to move between their capital Dunfermline and Edinburgh, which on
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