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

[regshoe]

Charlie chose the place himsel', the graveyard of Culloden...

Well, it looks like Keith's prophecies about the fate of the Jacobites, at least, weren't too inaccurate...

Next week we'll read chapters 3 and 4 of part III.

Comments

[regshoe]

Oh wow, thank you for all this information—fascinating stuff, and I did not know it was this complicated! I think we're supposed to understand that Ewen owns Ardroy outright ('Ewen... had ruled his little domain'; 'Mr Cameron was apparently a landed proprietor', though that second one could easily by Keith's misinterpretation), but you're right that it's not clear. (This isn't really a side of the historical detail that Broster gets into much!).

[hyarrowen]

Ewen... had ruled his little domain

Oooh, nice catch! I'd always just assumed it was his outright, but that was mostly due to English-centric views of inheritance which are unwarranted. But that phrase points to it being the case.

[luzula]

I think that phrasing tells us nothing of whether he owned or rented--he would have "ruled" it in the clanship sense in any case.

[hyarrowen]

Yes indeed - that was just the way I took it. This is one of the great things about this read-along - pre-conceived ideas get challenged!