acolyte - novice druid in training

Am Monadh Ruadh - the original Scots Gaelic name for the Cairngorm mountains, which translates to English as “the red hills”

aye - yes

bairn - child

bastart - bastard

baws - balls, testicles

Beinn Nibheis – old Scots Gaelic for Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Scotland

blaeberry - European fruit that resembles the American blueberry

blethering - chatting

bleezin’ -drunk

blind - cover device

blood kin - genetic relatives

boon - gift or favor

Bràithrean an fhithich - Brethren of the raven

brieve - a writ

brilliant - British slang for excellent or marvelous

buckler - shield

bugger - British slang for a contemptible person

cac - Scots gaelic for “shit”

Caledonia - ancient Scotland

cannae - can't

caraidean - Scots Gaelic for “friends”

Chieftain - the head of a specific Pritani tribe

clout - strike

comely - attractive

conclave - druid ruling body

conclavist - member of the druid ruling body

couldnae - couldn't

cow - derogatory term for woman

croft - small rented farm

cudgel - wooden club

daft - crazy

dinnae - don’t

disincarnate - commit suicide

doesnae - doesn’t

dru-wid - Proto Celtic word; an early form of “druid”

eagalsloc - synonym for “oubliette”; coined from Scots Gaelic for “fear” and “pit”; an inescapable hole or cell where prisoners are left to die

ell - ancient unit of length measurement, equal to approximately 18 inches

fack - fuck

facking - fucking

famhair - Scots Gaelic for giant (plural, famhairean)

fathom - understand

feart - Scottish or Irish for afraid

firesteel - a piece of metal used with flint to create sparks for fire-making

Francia - France

Francian - French

Gaul - ancient region that included France, Belgium, southern Netherlands, southwestern Germany, and northern Italy

Germania - Germany

goosed - Scottish slang for “smashed”

greyling - species of freshwater fish in the salmon family

hasnae - hasn’t

Hispania - Roman name for the Iberian peninsula (modern day Portugal and Spain)

incarnation - one of the many lifetimes of a druid

isnae - isn’t

keeker - black eye

ken - know

lad - boy

laird - lord

larder - pantry

lass - girl

league - distance measure of approximately three miles

leannan - Scots Gaelic for “beloved”

lochan - a small lake

magic folk - druids

mayhap - maybe

mustnae - must not

naught - nothing

no’ - not

NOSAS - North of Scotland Archaeology Society

oubliette - a dungeon with an opening only at the top

ovate - Celtic priest or natural philosopher

Pritani - Britons (one of the people of southern Britain before or during Roman times)

quim - woman's genitals

quisling - a traitor who collaborates with the enemy

reeks like an alky’s carpet - very smelly

ruddy - a British intensifier and euphemism for bloody

shouldnae - shouldn't

skelp - strike, slap, or smack

slee - sly, cunning

solar - rooms in a medieval castle that served as the family's private living and sleeping quarters

spew - vomit

staunch weed - yarrow

Tha mi a ‘gealltainn - Scots Gaelic for “I promise”

’tis - it is

’tisnt - it isn’t

tor - large, freestanding rock outcrop

tree-knower - the Skaraven nickname for the druids of their time

trencher - wooden platter for food

trews - trousers

’twas - it was

’twere - it was

’twill - it will

’twould - it would

uisge beatha - old Scots Gaelic for “whiskey”

undercroft - a room in a lower level of a castle used for storage

vole - small rodent related to the mouse

wasnae - wasn’t

watchlight - a term for a grease-soaked rush stalk, used as a candle in medieval times

wee - small

wench - girl or young woman

willnae - will not

wouldnae - would not