Scotiana

Hi Mairiuna!  Upon reading your last post Rob Roy, one of Walter Scott’s Most Popular Novels,  which I found so informative,   it reminded me that I had purchased last summer a biography of Rob Roy MacGregor,  His Life and Times written in 1982 by W.H. Murray, edited by Richard Drew Publishing, of Glasgow.
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Absolutely Mairiuna , and it’s also the scottish gaelic name for Scotland 
Have you seen Braveheart ?  If so, you surely remember the famous war cry  “Alba gu bragh! ” by William Wallace. It means something like « Scotland For Ever ».
What an emotionally charged performance Gibson gives us in this film!  An historical epic [...]