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

[cahn]

Oh excellent, I was going to ask about the seven gory severed heads! :D

These chapters are, wow, yeah, that whole meeting between Ewen and Keith is fannish catnip <3

Thank you SO much for the historical background; I think I would have been quite a bit more lost without it!!

[luzula]

Hi, I'm glad to see you here! : D

Yeah, the first time I read the book a lot of the details were lost on me (those different Christian denominations and their political alignments, for example!), but it was fine because as you say, Keith and Ewen's relationship is utter catnip. *g*

Glad you enjoyed the write-up and that it was helpful!