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regshoe ([personal profile] regshoe) wrote2021-10-02 05:51 pm

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

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.
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[personal profile] hyarrowen 2021-10-03 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the depths of the Little Ice Age at that point, so it'd be a much starker scene than present-day Scotland. And even I, much though I love the uplands, have to admit that an entire landscape full of heather in bloom is a startling sight!