Quote Originally Posted by H. Hastings View Post
(Hey Bradley, did I get your attention? )
The irony is my family is Campbell affiliated and now I'll have a MacDonald tartan kilt. Personally, all history between the clans aside, I can't think of a better way to show the respect I feel for my friend than to wear his tartan.
Not all MacDonalds and Campbells were deadly enemies. One branch of the MacDonalds were hereditary pipers to a branch of the Campbells (I can't think which branches, and I'd need to trawl through my library to find out again). Even the Massacre of Glencoe wasn't purly a Cambell Vs MacDonald affair on a grand scale. Although the event was orchestrated by a Campbell laird who had a grudge against the local MacDonald branch clan MacIan (and also some MacGregors), who amongst other 'attrocities' had stolen his prize stallion. The force that carried out the massacre were commanded by the laird's nephew, who was blackmailed into carrying out his orders, but very few of the men under his command were Campbells.
Also Micheil MacDonald gives an amusing (but very serious) account of how his MacDonald forebear might have been the son of a man called Donald Campbell (his son would have been designated MacDonald ie: 'son of Donald') in his book 'Scots Kith and Kin'.