| MacDonald
means, of course, "Son of Donald". Donald was a chap
who lived in the Highlands a very long time ago. He had eight
sons, all of whom he christened "Donald". All eight
Donald Mac Donald's had several children of their own, and the
family tradition of naming each of them, including the girls,
Donald to ensure that the Mac Donald name would be upheld was
continued, and before very long there were thousands of bloody
Mac Donalds all over the place.
One day, fed up with all the obvious
confusion this caused, a certain Donald Mac Donald decided
to break with convention and in the face of mighty opposition
from the Clan Chief, Donald Mac Donald of Glen Donald, he
named his two sons Ewan and Gregor. Within a generation the
Mac Ewan's and Mac Gregor's were born and before very long
everybody was at it, creating new Clan divisions and rifts
with each new name.
Nomenclature anarchy broke out in the
highlands, and it became a popular highland pastime to see
who could think up the silliest name for their son, in order
to create new family offshoots, and perhaps one of the best
examples of this is Mac Whirter.
Thereafter, for centuries, inter-clan
strife became a way of life in the glens and mountains.
The most well known MacDonald's are
Flora MacDonald, who is famous for introducing Bonnie Prince
Charlie to cross-dressing, and Ronald MacDonald, who invented
hamburgers.
If you are a MacDonald, your biggest
family trait is to harbour grudges like nobody's business,
mainly because it is the sworn duty of every MacDonald to
make sure nobody ever forgets what those bastard Campbells
did to them at
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