Not before Games Workshop got their claws into them (The same group who gave us green orcs no less).
It's not as if the Scottish have a strong history of mining either (though the violent, hairy, drunkards bit I do get).
I mean, classically the dwarves should have a Scandinavian / Nordic / Germanic accent, not Glaswegian. I could even understand it if they were Welsh (That would also go a long way to explain the hairy women).
But I guess we're stuck with a bunch of dwarves spewing faux-Scottish gibberish and reminding me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7VoFiagfs
It's not as if the Scottish have a strong history of mining either (though the violent, hairy, drunkards bit I do get).
I mean, classically the dwarves should have a Scandinavian / Nordic / Germanic accent, not Glaswegian. I could even understand it if they were Welsh (That would also go a long way to explain the hairy women).
But I guess we're stuck with a bunch of dwarves spewing faux-Scottish gibberish and reminding me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k7VoFiagfs
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