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This interested me as I recently had to write an essay on the Anglo-Scottish Borders from the late medieval to Tudor period, and have come across a lot of myth there... Mainly though that was to do with the nature of the borders, the origins of Anglo-Scots rivalry, and The Border Reivers.

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May 18, 2008
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