Some of my forebears were Scots, though of the lowland variety so I have been told. I have become interested in Scottish history and culture since watching the Outlander series Outlander (TV series) - Wikipedia, based on Diana Gabaldon's saga of the same. name. The highland Scots were a hardy lot who had to contend with a very austere environment with the minimum of equipment and necessities. We could well learn from some of what we might in the present consider improvisations, which to them, were a way of life. There a number of other YouTube clips on the Fandabi Dozi channel, well worth a look at.
Scottish on both sides of my family… Gordons & Erskines… named after Robert the Bruce and after a long line of Bruces going back six generations or more… Some of my progenitors were paroled from British Prisons after the Battle of Culloden, as indentured Servants to New England…
