1. Celtic and Germanic folk share a common root ancestry
2. Scotland is almost as Germanic as England, you just don't realist it.
3 The Kingdom of Northumbria was situated half in what is now southern Scotland and half in northern England. It was mostly populated by Germanic Angles and Frisians from the 5th century onwards. Even after that kingdom collapsed and Scotland eventually gained the borders that it has today the people who live in those areas are still descendants of those original Angles and Frisians who kicked out the Picts.
4. Edinburgh is named after King Edwin of the Angles who ruled Northumbria.
5. Dumfries another Scottish city is ‘probably’ named after the Frisians (A Germanic Tribe) who settled there. Dumfries possibly means Ridge of the Frisians.
6. Scots language has its origins in the 4th and 5th century Early Old English spoken by the Angles. It was then influenced again much later in the 12th and 13th century due to immigration of Scandinavian Middle English-speakers from the North and Midlands of England. Scots is one of 3 languages spoken in Scotland and it is of Germanic origin.
7. The East coast and Islands of Scotland were heavily occupied by Scandinavian folk. Some Islands were given back to Scotland as late as the 18th century by Denmark.
8. Orkney, Bannockburn, Caithness, Dingwall are Germanic names but there are too many place names of Germanic origin to list in Scotland. This alone should tell you how Germanic Scotland is.
9. Sutherland at the very North of Scotland is so called as it was the "Southern Land" to the viking settlers.
10. As any Scot will tell you "Mac" means son of , thus the Macleods (who have a long history in Sutherland) are Sons of Leod, Leod being the King of Norway. King Olaf the black haired who settled the Orkney islands and is said to have been a descendant of the God Freyr.
11. Dingwall, south of Sutherland was so named as Assembly Field, or Parliament in Norse.12. chief God/hero of the Gododdin (Lothianers prior to Northumbrian accession) was.... Gwydion (another name for Odin)