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[Highlander]

Scottish Clan names started off as not real names, if that makes sense,... Mac or Mc,.. means `son of`,... so you are quite likely to get Donald MacDonald,.. simply Donald son of Donald

Many names discribed the person,.. so that discription was part of his name, so Donald Dubh MacDonald, was Donald `black` MacDonald,.. maybe discribing his hair,... or Alan `the red` MacDonald

Then you get the smaller clans that were attached to the larger clan for protection,.. for instance, The clan Gardner was part of the Clan Gordon,... so he was often a Gordon

Then for whatever reason men changed there names,.. a member of the Clan MacDonalds of Glen Coe,.. called Issac MacDonald,.. would change his name to Donald MacIssac so as not to be connected to a hunted Clan

So whats in a name,..eh...