One of those "technically true, the best kind" things. Raised north of the wall in Edinburgh, I was very aware how Northumberland was similar to my landscape and mentality of the locals. They have bagpipes. the TH in thumber leads to asking if its a T and Humber and it does refer to the river Humber, its the land north of the humber. It makes you think how Yorkshire leads there. Certainly the Jacobites didn't pause long at Hadrians wall heading south, the last time England was invaded at scale (They got as far south as Derbyshire)
North of Hadrians Wall is sometimes treated as more Scottish than not. South is the other way round.
So not a border, but instead perhaps, a boundary which encompasses Scotland more than not?
The Border Reivers crossed the Tweed, the badlands north of Hadrians wall were part and parcel of a cross-border community which made its own laws, and in turn led to laws against them.
The border was .. mutable. Hadrian's wall was not the border.
> the TH in thumber leads to asking if its a T and Humber and it does refer to the river Humber, its the land north of the humber. It makes you think how Yorkshire leads there.
IIRC, Northumberland was the only part of Northumbria that didn't get absorbed into the Danelaw (the swathe of north and central England conquered and settled by Vikings from the late 800s), which is why it retains the name of the former, much larger region.
North of Hadrians Wall is sometimes treated as more Scottish than not. South is the other way round.
So not a border, but instead perhaps, a boundary which encompasses Scotland more than not?
The Border Reivers crossed the Tweed, the badlands north of Hadrians wall were part and parcel of a cross-border community which made its own laws, and in turn led to laws against them.
The border was .. mutable. Hadrian's wall was not the border.