reiver

Personally, I am dividing my time between the Orange Culture, and the Wrecker Culture (*), but Lowland Scots Culture is beginning to creep up in appreciation, much like a blue bonneted border reiver upon some English cattle (*).

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

For long periods between the 13th and 17th centuries, the borders were practically lawless, as the "border reiver" families of Scotland and England raided each other and the two countries 'armies battled for dominance.

English Border Town Yearns to Return to Scotland 2008

“Ay, but Catharine,” replied the glover, “hath a second thou knowest little of: Father Clement has taken the young reiver in hand, and he fears a hundred devils as little as I do a flock of geese.”

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

I have mentioned in one of my previous diaries that in the ancient language (most likely arameic) Hebrew means - the person who lives on this side of the river and Arab - a person who lives on that side of the reiver.

Lebanon Winners and Losers and The Future of Warfare. 2006

I have mentioned in one of my previous diaries that in the ancient language (most likely arameic) Hebrew means - the person who lives on this side of the river and Arab - a person who lives on that side of the reiver.

Lebanon Winners and Losers and The Future of Warfare. 2006

Mary Forster Forster Forrester, Foster was another one of the large Borderland reiver families.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

Mary Forster Forster Forrester, Foster was another one of the large Borderland reiver families.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

Mary Forster Forster Forrester, Foster was another one of the large Borderland reiver families.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

Mary Forster Forster Forrester, Foster was another one of the large Borderland reiver families.

First Man James R. Hansen 2005

Finally, Cole functions as the Erl-Konig, the child-stealing Faerie reiver.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004