When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literature and Philosophy
- Patrick Walker, author of Covenanter tracts (4.2)
- Psalm 121 (20.35)
- Horace (27.13; 27.38)
- Homer, The Odyssey (27.47)
- Virgil, the Aeneid (27.47)
- Martial, Epigrams (28.4)
- Michel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (28.7)
- Ovid, Tristia (28.7)
Historical References
- Alan Breck Stewart
- James Stewart (7, 17, 19, 27)
- King Charlemagne (11.5)
- The Black Watch (12.10)
- The Battle of Prestonpans (12.13; 24.39)
- Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure (12, 16, 17, 19, 27)
- King Charles II (14.18)
- The Duke of Argyle (18.33; 30.3)
- The Massacre of Glencoe (20.2)
- Cluny Macpherson (22, 23)
- General Cope (24.39)
- Rob Roy (25.1; 25.5)
- James More Drummond (25.10)
Pop Culture
- "The Lincolnshire Poacher" folk song (5.10)
- The Water Kelpie (24.27)
- "The Bonnie House of Airlie" (27.1)