Wearing a dirk

[Jock Scot]

I would be very, very careful in attaching any importance to, nearly, anything written in the 1830's about Scotland in general and the Highlands in particular. Much of what was written then, is believed by people of today as fact and examples are often seen on this website of the "romantic views " of a Scotland that never existed. A bit like Hollywood's idea of the "wild west", or, "Braveheart".