What's up with Scottish Dwarves?!?

[Storm Raven]

Fair enough. I've been guilty of giving my Dwarves Yiddish accents. Then again, I've always thought that in Human societies, Dwarves would fill a niche comparable to that of the Medieval Urban Jew.

No, that would be gnomes.

 

[ivocaliban]

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Poul Anderson's Three Hearts and Three Lions (1953). It was a strong influence on D&D in general and Hugi, the dwarf character, does seem to possess a Scottish (or strikingly similar) accent.

 

[pawsplay]

Yes the Norse and pagan Germans worshipped Thor. As you'll note in the original post, relations between the Germanic gods and the Dwarves were not at all that great. Thor especially makes a poor choice, viz. deity of the Atmosphere not Earth, literally kicked Dwarves around, etc.

But then, in those stories, dwarves would have wizard as a favored class.

 

[pawsplay]

Fair enough. I've been guilty of giving my Dwarves Yiddish accents. Then again, I've always thought that in Human societies, Dwarves would fill a niche comparable to that of the Medieval Urban Jew.

Amusingly enough, while Tolkien's dwarves were originally named for Swedes and Saxons, he switched to a Hebrew inspired language for Lord of the Rings.

 

[Tonguez]

I always thought of Dwarfs as Bravarian

but this might just persuade me...

Lemme see.....

Dwarves are stereotypically tight with their money, dour, live in clans, prone to drinking lots of alcohol and enjoy a good fight.

No, I can't see anything to link them to the Scots at all.........

 

[MonsterMash]

Lemme see.....

Dwarves are stereotypically tight with their money, dour, live in clans, prone to drinking lots of alcohol and enjoy a good fight.

No, I can't see anything to link them to the Scots at all.........

For much the same reasons my dwarves are portrayed with a Yorkshire accent (my attempt to do a Sir Geoffrey Boycott).

 

[pawsplay]

I'm not sure that deliberate minstrelsy is necessarily a good approach to fantasy races.

 

[Brakkart]

I always thought of Dwarfs as Bravarian

but this might just persuade me...

You'd like the Kogolor Dwarves in the Hollow World setting then, they live in forested hills/mountains and even wear lederhosen!

 

[D'karr]

You'd like the Kogolor Dwarves in the Hollow World setting then, they live in forested hills/mountains and even wear lederhosen!

The hills are alive with the sound of stunties...

 

[Kishin]

I noticed the same thing, and in an effort to make my homebrew stand out, I made Dwarves into Russians.

The Dwarves in Guild Wars have Russian accents, which I think is infinitely preferable to Scottish, especially since most of the time the Dwarven 'Scottish' accent is played up to an annoyingly comical degree.