Flight of the Heron read-along: Part I chapters 5-6

[regshoe]

What is right and what is wrang, a short sword and a lang, a weak arm and a strang for to draw...

Welcome back to the read-along! This week's chapters are getting a bit more serious, historically and for our characters...

Next week we'll read the first two chapters of Part II.

Comments

[philomytha]

The discussion in the hut is such a great scene, the way Keith thinks Ewen is getting at him about High Bridge and Ewen's horror when he realises he's actually made Keith feel bad, it's such a great demonstration of Ewen's highly sensitive chivalry.

I can't remember where I read this now, but apparently wool has an exothermic reactions with water, so wringing the plaid out in water would actually make it warmer to sleep in - a wonderful little detail that Broster gets right there.

[regshoe]

Aww, yes, Ewen is such a sweetheart—I do like that he gets that one barb in at Keith and then immediately feels bad for him.

wool has an exothermic reactions with water, so wringing the plaid out in water would actually make it warmer to sleep in

Oh, nice! That would make sense.

[luzula]

Regardless of whether people actually did it, I do wonder if Broster got that detail about wringing the plaid in water from Burt's letters? Someone tells him that anecdote as well, with pretty much the same reaction as Keith has...

[regshoe]

That sounds very plausible! Aww, I love reading the historical sources and coming across the bits where Broster got the details in the book from—that's great.