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

[regshoe]

I suppose Hector, if anyone-- a fated foe, "the gods have lured me to my destruction!" etc.?

Sounds good :D Hmm, 'Hector' is an interesting name—it turns up in Scotland because it's used as the Anglicised form of the Gaelic name Eachann (at least one Hector/Eachann appears in FotH, in fact), but Eachann is not etymologically related to the Greek Hector at all.

Ah, I see. Yeah, I also don't think that Ewen would be dishonest like that, especially in front of Lochiel (though that's based on stuff about their relationship from later on in the book, so we shall see...).

Haha, no worries about the spelling—'Keith' is actually one of the words that breaks the (otherwise reasonably consistent) 'I before E except after C, when the IE sounds like E' rule. I don't know what etymology is responsible for that...!