Scottish Clans

[spathiphyllum]

So how do they work? Is it like a family or a blood line, or is it more area orientated?

[Rockrose]

Many clansmen although not related to the chief took the chief's surname as their own to either show solidarity, or to obtain basic protection or for much needed sustenance.[2] Most of the followers of the clan were tenants, who supplied labour to the clan leaders.[3] Contrary to popular belief, the ordinary clansmen rarely had any blood tie of kinship with the clan chiefs, but they took the chief's surname as their own when surnames came into common use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[3] Thus by the eighteenth century the myth had arisen that the whole clan was descended from one ancestor, with the Scottish Gaelic of "clan" meaning "children" or "offspring".[3]

[spathiphyllum]

Interesting... So who were the original clan leaders, what kind of era did it originate from?

[Rockrose]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_clan

[malagabob]

There has been a program on BBC4 “Rise of the Clans”. Saying the various clans had and were from a specific area

[spathiphyllum]

That would make an interesting watch. I like the ideology of it.