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Speech by the MacLaren of MacLaren to the Clan Convention on 24th July 2009

Posted by William Douglas on October 9, 2009 at 3:32am

Just published on the Panalba website, is the speech made at the time of the Clan Gathering in Edinburgh on the role of the clan chief in modern times.Donald MacLaren of MacLaren tells this story:In his bid to unite Dalriada and Pictland, Kenneth MacAlpine invited all the Pictish princes and nobles with rival claims to the throne to a great meeting and banquet. Disarmed at the door, rather like us, they entered all unsuspecting. But pits had been dug beneath the benches on which they were seated

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