Flight of the Heron read-along: Part I chapters 1-2

[regshoe]

Hark! now the drums they beat again for all good soldiers, gentlemen...

Welcome back to the Flight of the Heron read-along! This week we read the first two proper chapters, and meet Keith Windham—and Keith meets Ewen Cameron.

As you'll have noticed, Broster is fond of including both Gaelic and Scots words in dialogue; this online Gaelic-English dictionary and this one for Scots may be of use if you'd like to look anything up.

Next week we will continue with chapters 3 and 4.

Comments

[regshoe]

:D :D :D and very much agree with your entire first paragraph! This book just may be a little bit of a perfect gift for slash fandom...

No, the narrator is just an omniscient narrator throughout—what was the line you mean?

[sanguinity]

Some leader called ‘Keppoch’, Captain Windham heard, had then called on the Royals to surrender, or they would be cut to pieces, and to save his men Captain Scott had done so. Immediately on this had come up Ewen Cameron’s chief, Lochiel (who had been asked for assistance), with a number of his clan, including the present narrator, had taken charge of the prisoners, and marched them off to his house of Achnacarry.

I realize now that "the present narrator" was possibly meant to be Ewen? None of that is quoted speech, so I took "the present narrator" to be the omniscient narrator.

[regshoe]

Ah, I see—yeah, I think the 'narrator' here does mean Ewen, because this is all a summary of what Ewen is telling Keith.