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What is loyalty worth when one man fights for honour, another for kinship, and another for his next meal?
In Walter Scott's A Legend of Montrose, Scotland is split by civil war. The Marquis of Montrose gathers Highland clans for King Charles against the Covenanters, with the powerful Marquis of Argyle among his opponents. Old clan feuds run through the struggle, making loyalty a matter of family as well as politics.
Into this divided country rides Dugald Dalgetty, a boastful soldier seeking a master who will feed him and his horse, Gustavus. The young Earl of Menteith serves the king for honour, while Allan M'Aulay's feared visions trouble his clan. Scott brings comedy into the conflict without letting its dangers fade.
What you’ll discover
- A soldier with terms Meet Dalgetty, whose appetite, boasts, and bargaining sit beside a firm respect for his word.
- Loyalties under strain Follow Menteith as duty to the king pulls against the claims of personal feeling.
- Visions that trouble a clan Encounter Allan M'Aulay, whose supposed second sight brings fear rather than comfort to those around him.
- Clans on the march Enter a Highland world where Montrose's campaign draws strength from clans divided by old feuds.
- A harpist with unanswered questions Meet gentle Annot Lyle, whose origins and place in the M'Aulay household invite curiosity.
Who will love it
For readers who enjoy historical adventure, Highland landscapes and a talkative comic hero, and for anyone curious about Scotland's seventeenth century conflicts.
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- A Scotland split by war and clan
- A mercenary arrives with his horse
- Young Menteith and the king's cause
- Allan M'Aulay and the second sight
- Montrose, Argyle and the clans gather
- What the novel is about and how it is told
Who’s who
- Dugald DalgettyA boastful Scottish soldier of fortune, schooled in the German wars, who sells his sword for pay and keeps his word once given.
- Earl of MenteithA young, honourable nobleman who has chosen the king's side and struggles to balance duty and personal feeling.
- Allan M'AulayA fierce, gloomy Highlander believed to have the second sight, whose visions trouble his clan and himself.
- Annot LyleA gentle young harpist in the M'Aulay household whose origins and place in the family stir curiosity.
- Marquis of MontroseThe brilliant royal commander who gathers the Highland clans for King Charles against the Covenanters.
- Marquis of ArgyleChief of the Campbells and leading Covenanter, a cautious, powerful man feared by many rival clans.
- Ranald MacEaghAn outlaw chief of a broken clan who nurses a long memory of wrongs suffered.
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Die Legende von Montrose
by Walter Scott · 1819
Dugald Dalgetty seeks pay in the Highlands, where civil war puts loyalties to the test.
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A Legend of Montrose is a historical novel by Walter Scott, published in 1819 as part of his series Tales of My Landlord. It looks back to the Scottish Civil War of the 1640s.
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A Scotland split by war and clan
The novel is set in the mid 1640s, when the quarrels between King Charles and his Parliament had spread to Scotland. The Covenanters had signed a national pledge to defend their form of church, and they now ruled much of the Lowlands. Many Highland chiefs, and many nobles who distrusted that rule, stood for the king instead.
Scott shows that this was never a simple fight of two sides. Old clan feuds ran underneath the politics. A chief might join the royal cause because his ancient enemy joined the other, and not because he cared about the king at all. The Campbells, led by the Marquis of Argyle, were enemies of many neighbouring clans, and that hatred matters as much to the story as any loyalty to a crown.
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What is A Legend of Montrose about?
It follows a Scottish mercenary, Dugald Dalgetty, who enters the Highland civil war of the 1640s, where clan feuds mix with the royal campaign led by the Marquis of Montrose against the Covenanters.
Who is Dugald Dalgetty?
Dalgetty is a Scottish soldier of fortune who served in Germany under Gustavus Adolphus. He is boastful and fond of food and pay, but he keeps his word, and he provides most of the book's humour.
Is A Legend of Montrose a true story?
It is fiction set against real history. Montrose and Argyle were real leaders in the Scottish Civil War, but Scott invented most of the main characters. He published it in 1819 as one of his Tales of My Landlord.
The author
Walter Scott
1771–1832 · Scottish novelist and poet
Walter Scott (1771–1832) was a Scottish novelist, poet and playwright. He was born in Edinburgh and lived in Scotland, including at Abbotsford near Melrose, where he died. He wrote Marmion (1808), The Lady of the Lake (1810), Waverley (1814), Rob Roy (1817) and Ivanhoe (1819).
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