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regshoeHark! 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.
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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Date: Oct. 4th, 2021 05:04 pm (UTC)I think I also warm to Ewen, the Ideal Man, more in these chapters than in the prologue, because the admiration for his manifold good qualities feels like it's coming from Keith instead of directly from the omniscient narrator.
Yes, that's a good point—of course I enjoy the OTT admiring descriptions for what they say about Keith and his feelings, but it's a more... natural-seeming? sympathetic? way to hear about Ewen himself too, in a way.
I've had so much fun learning about Jacobite history since getting into this fandom, and I thought this was a good place to ramble about the random facts I've picked up—I'm glad you're enjoying the commentary!