Now applied poetically to Scotland, but at one time Ireland was so called. Hence Claudius says—
“When Scots came thundering from the Irish shores,
And ocean trembled, struck with hostile oars.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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