nigheandonn wrote:I don't know any Gaelic Assyrians, purple or otherwise!
There was a Wolf of Badenoch, I believe, but he seems to have been Alexander Stewart...
You are partly there. Alexander Stewart, Lord Buchan was known as Big Alexander, more properly Alasdair Mor mac an Righ and the Wolf of Badenoch. He might have worn purple and gold for all we know. Anyway, he was a bad lot and reputedly met his come-uppence at
RC after losing a game of chess to a tall dark stranger. What is
RC?