Our stories make up our histories, and sometimes quite literally so. After all, the word "story" comes from an older meaning of historia itself — which later gives us "hi-story" per se (just so's to thicken the plot). But realising this, we might well wonder what the real difference between "fact" and "fiction" really is, especially when it comes to the past. And the further back in time we go, the more the edges blur. The laugh of it all is, though, that what historians quite traditionally dismiss as mere "folklore" sometimes turns out to be better history than the "histories" themselves. Of course, our oldest hi-story-tellers would find all of this an amusing twist in the tale, but perfectly human at that in its flaws. So you never can tell (perhaps the proof's in the telling), but in this section, you'll find "stories" of many kinds, including the highest "hi-stories" and other tall tales. Tales told in and around and about Lothiana and her illustrious children, often by them, and on all sorts of things — so let our pageant of pages begin...
