though it were ten thousand mile…” is from the beautiful Robert Burns poem, O my Luve's like a red, red rose, written in 1794 after Magnus’s time.
beannachd leibh - farewell or blessings be with you.
"Fra banc to banc, fra wod to wod, I rin, Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie, Lyk til a leif that fallis from a trie…” is from a Sonet by Mark Alexander Boyd. 1563-1601
breac - trout.
iasg mòr - big fish
uile-bhèist - monster
mucag is Gaelic for piglet
m’bhean - my wife
m’bhean ghlan - means clean wife, Fraoch's nickname for Hayley.
Droch-spiorad - evil spirit
Locations:
Fernandina Beach on Amelia Island, Florida, present day
Magnus’s home in Scotland - Balloch. Built in 1552. In early 1800s it was rebuilt as Taymouth Castle. (Maybe because of the breach in the walls caused by our siege from the future?) Situated on the south bank of the River Tay, in the heart of the Grampian Mountains. In 2382 it is a ruin.
Kilchurn Castle - Magnus’s childhood home, favorite castle of his uncle Baldie. On an island at the northeastern end of Loch Awe. In the region Argyll.
The kingdom of Magnus the First, Riaghalbane, is in Scotland.
His Caisteal Morag is very near Balloch Castle lying on the south bank of the River Tay about a mile from Loch Tay.
Edinburgh in the year 1554. I spent a lot of time enjoying this reconstruction...
True things that happened:
Sir Colin, otherwise known as 'Grey Colin’, began building a tower house on the east end of Loch Tay, known as Balloch Castle in 1551-1552. Balloch means 'the house at the narrow pass'.
Sir Colin is said to have chosen the site for Balloch castle because he was instructed in a dream to found it where he heard a blackbird sing.
In 1787, Robert Burns described the beauty of Balloch Castle and its surrounding lands in verse, as follows:-
The Tay meandering sweet in infant pride,
The Palace rising on its verdant side,
The lawns, wood fringed, in Nature's native taste,
The hillocks dropped in Nature's native haste...
His son, Sir Duncan Campbell, born in 1550 (I fudged that date a bit) was otherwise known as Black Duncan, or Duncan of the Seven Castles. He is the bairn Kaitlyn nurses.
Here’s a few of the dark things he did in his lifetime:
He imprisoned his first wife while he courted another, swore he wasn’t married, and made his first wife deny their marriage before he let her free.
He had many men of Clan Gregor killed and their lands given to Campbells.
Apparently he had a pit in the courtyard of his Finlarig Castle for all the beheadings of noblemen. There was also a special oak tree for the hanging of commoners.
Sir Duncan's lands were widespread and difficult to control he built or strengthened seven castles:
Kilchurn Castle on Loch Awe was repaired.
Taymouth Castle, formerly known as Balloch, was strengthened at the east end of Loch Tay.
Edinample Castle at the west end of Loch Earn was built.
Achallader at the head of Glenorchy was built.
Finlarig at the west end of Loch Tay was built.
The island Castle on Loch Dochart was built.
Barcaldine was built.
From A Boke or Counseill Against the Disease Commonly Called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse* (1552), a common and very deadly illness that year.
As Cynthia Tyler pointed out, “Sweating Sickness often ended quickly, in death... But, since Kaitlyn and Magnus are from different times, are healthier thanks to better nutrition, have tried to stay clean because they know about germs, maybe that's why they didn't succumb.”
This is a short description of the tour that Mary of Guise and Lord Châtellerault took to Aberdeen in May of 1552.
Mary of Guise became queen consort upon her marriage to King James V of Scotland in 1538. Her infant daughter, Mary, ascended the throne when James died in 1542. Then she ruled Scotland as regent from 1554 until her death.
When Mary of Guise became regent on 12 April 1554. (Just two years after Magnus and Kaitlyn were there) Her daughter, Queen Mary, just eleven years old, sent congratulations to "la Royne, ma mere" ("the Queen, my mother")
Mary Queen of Scots was born at Linlithgow Palace.
James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault, (also Earl of Arran) was next in line to the throne after the King's descendants, so on the death of James V on 14 December 1542, the Earl of Arran stood next in line to the Scottish throne after the king's six-day-old newborn baby daughter Mary, Queen of Scots.
Arran was appointed the Governor and Protector of Scotland.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist and was a prominent member