Another question about clans--adopted children

[Paul Henry]

That whole color-scheme thing rang a bell and I was pretty sure it had to do with ancient Irish society from before the Gaelic colonization of Scotland; so I did a little looking around, and:

I know all about this, and I'm afraid that it is also rather fanciful, the stuff of myths and legends, and although there might be a few grains of truth somewhere within the stories , but not enough to be very creditable.

[Dale Seago]

I know all about this, and I'm afraid that it is also rather fanciful, the stuff of myths and legends, and although there might be a few grains of truth somewhere within the stories , but not enough to be very creditable.

Wasn't suggesting otherwise, just that the reference properly was to ancient Ireland rather than more recent Scotland. The Gaelic culture being highly oral, it's likely that anything written down about it would have been done in the Christian era, and unsupported by archeological evidence (textiles in burials, for instance) would pretty much have to be taken simply as legend.