
Scottish clans: everything you wanted to know
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The Myths of the Scottish Clans
The biggest mets about the scottish clans are that they all belong to a different race, which you could call celtic. Stephenle: An awful lot of what we call clan life is very difficult to distinguish from an feudal society. We have to remember that somebody like camela blocheel in the eighteenth century was a gentleman at the court of louis the fourteenth. And they didn't slot into noble society by a wearing animal skins and wielding broadswords 24-hour days. It was very easy for these people to slot into european noble society.
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