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By Chuck Backhaus
Times-Democrat Staff Writer
In Scotland the fog, or as the natives call it, thy “mist,” adds a perpetually mysterious haze to its rugged and beautiful landscape. With its multitude of mountains and roughly 800 islands, where myth and fact are most often entwined as one, Scotland has been shrouded in mystery since its origin.
In fact, not much is known about its infancy; however, the prevailing wisdom is that the people of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal) or rather, south west Europe were the first to inhabit its shores.
There is little evidence about when they came or why but they were believed to have been followed by the Celts (or Irish) and then later still by the Germans, and finally by the Romans who invaded and brought Christianity to the pagan tfibes.
In some respects, Scotland — the name is derived from the Scots, an Irish people — was one of the first great melting pots. And subsequently, nearly everyone with ties to the Eastern Hemisphere, however indirectly, can claim some Scottish ancestry.
So what is uniquely Scottish? Well, as you might suspect, it is many things to many people. Nokesville’s Norman Weaver is a descendent of Clan Gregor (the McGregors), a fierce clan that was, for 150 years, temporarily abolished by
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