I admire your dedication to this research—that sounds like a fun experiment! (By the way, thanks very much for linking that video about the plaid—I've gone and watched a few of the other Highland historical/outdoorsy videos on the same channel and they're all great fun and very interesting :D)
(Best random thing I've come across so far is this line from a history book I was reading today: That gentle Jacobite, Robert Kirk, minister of Balquhidder and Aberfoyle, Gaelic scholar and an authority on the fairies (on whom he wrote an admirable book), was allowed simply to fade away, though whether into a grave or into a fairy hill is still a matter of some controversy.)
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Date: 2020-01-08 08:53 pm (UTC)(Best random thing I've come across so far is this line from a history book I was reading today: That gentle Jacobite, Robert Kirk, minister of Balquhidder and Aberfoyle, Gaelic scholar and an authority on the fairies (on whom he wrote an admirable book), was allowed simply to fade away, though whether into a grave or into a fairy hill is still a matter of some controversy.)