My HERO!!!

[Bob Potter]

"Sassanach" (which I am most likely misspelling) is a Scots Gaelic for a foreigner from south of Hadrian's Wall, or "reeking non-hairy English" as a Goon (was it Chisholm MacChisholm?) said at least once. It is probably a corruption of "Saxon." My Scottish host used that on me in the pub one evening. His friends were amused, more that I knew it than that he used it on me.

KOSB's (pronounced Cos-bees) are the King's Own Scottish Borderers, whose pre-Cardwell regimental number I forget. A Lowland regiment, they have made a formidable reputation on many fields. They are not kilted.

The Sutherlands of the Hudson's Bay Company are probably from the same family that raised the 93rd Regiment, which was coincidentally raised at about the same time that the HBC was opening the upper Oregon territory.

Hope this helps.

Like your MLU handle by the way. There are not many Icelander kicking about around here. I have a grad school buddy from Oregon who lived for awhile in Astoria. He was amused by that place's Finnish population. I reminded him that there were just enough Finns in Astoria to scare the Russians away.

Cheers

Bob