I'm slogging through book 5 very slowly, but I have a question - why does Aunt Jocasta refer to Jamie as Jamie Roy? I thought this was just his smuggling name. Is it because Duncan does?
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"How do you know this?"
"That's what I do... I drink, and I know things."
Did she? I don't recall. And Duncan calls Jamie by MacDubh, never Jamie Roy.
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At the point of Crisis and Annihilation, Survival is Victory- Dunkirk
Someone at the Gathering calls him Jamie Roy, and I could have sworn it was Jocasta. Maybe I didn't read that part thoroughly enough and I confused characters.
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"How do you know this?"
"That's what I do... I drink, and I know things."
Let me check on that.
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At the point of Crisis and Annihilation, Survival is Victory- Dunkirk
Jocasta listened carefully, a small furrow between her brows. He’d expected her to pause for thought when he’d finished, but instead she replied at once.
“Aye,” she said, “I ken Joanie Findlay, and her brother, too. Ye’re right, her husband was carried off by the consumption, two year gone. Jamie Roy spoke to me of her yesterday.”
“Oh, he did?” Roger felt mildly foolish.
The "Roy" is actually "ruaidh," which is gaelic for "red."
shareThat's right, yes. Thank you.
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At the point of Crisis and Annihilation, Survival is Victory- Dunkirk
Well, Red Jamie (or the Gaelic version) was his name as the Jacobite soldier. I don't see why Jocasta would call him that, either.
I think this was an error by DG.
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"How do you know this?"
"That's what I do... I drink, and I know things."
You'd call someone 'Red Jamie' to distinguish them from another Jamie without red hair. There is no reason for Jocasta to know about the people in Jamie's past who have referred to him in this way; it's just to distinguish him, so the talkers both know to whom she refers.
shareThat's a good point, but in a conversation between Roger and Jocasta, I think they'd both know who just "Jamie" is. So would the reader, because there was no mention of another Jamie at the Gathering.
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"How do you know this?"
"That's what I do... I drink, and I know things."
I agree, it seems a bit odd. But there were lots of people there who may have met Jamie through the uprising and perhaps he was generally being referred to as 'Jamie Roy' by others at the Gathering, and they were following suit?
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