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**Gaxiciverfere** · 06-30-2009, 12:11 AM

Yes, there are. Mostly out on the western islands and up north. But the clue was in "a Gaelic-speaking peasant community in mainland Scotland in the here and now". Peasants is just daft, what with evolving into the working class, and Gaelic is very much a fringe language, so there's unlikely to be such a community slap bang in the middle of Scotland.

OK, now I see...

Although I haven't read the book yet (I kind of wanted to read it before doing a thread on him), I do know this: it is broken up in two parts, one is about 18th-century Scottish expatriates to Canada (particularly to Cape Breton Island) and the other is about the descendants of those expatriates revisiting their ancestral lands centuries later. Maybe Harry was looking at the other part, the one where there actually WERE peasants in Scotland? I don't know...

06-30-2009, 12:11 AM	#9
Gaxiciverfere Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	Yes, there are. Mostly out on the western islands and up north. But the clue was in "a Gaelic-speaking peasant community in mainland Scotland in the here and now". Peasants is just daft, what with evolving into the working class, and Gaelic is very much a fringe language, so there's unlikely to be such a community slap bang in the middle of Scotland. OK, now I see... Although I haven't read the book yet (I kind of wanted to read it before doing a thread on him), I do know this: it is broken up in two parts, one is about 18th-century Scottish expatriates to Canada (particularly to Cape Breton Island) and the other is about the descendants of those expatriates revisiting their ancestral lands centuries later. Maybe Harry was looking at the other part, the one where there actually WERE peasants in Scotland? I don't know...
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