In the B&B this morning we asked the owner about the relations between the Northern English and the Scots seeing as how the border is so tangible, what with Hadrian's wall (around 100 a.d. but I could be wrong) still standing. After telling us about the savage Scots who would rape and pillage before crossing back over the border in Scotland, she told us that a local woman had been hung in the town square for marrying a Scot in the sixteenth or seventeenth century. Moving to the present, she made us to understand that the Scots were a bunch of freeloaders. It seems relations remain tense.
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