TT - I'd say my family, historically full of horse thieves, Lodge owners and lost mine owners, and lovers of Dunn Castle inhabitants would have had a riot meeting up with your dragon slayers, amazons,& fellow horse thieves. Of course, a man with no horse is afoot.
The Light(or swift of)foot thing is indeed very interesting. I am not surprised we all found much ambiguity and conflicting info in our various histories in different versions at web sites and family documents as John, myself, you and the rest sound as though we've all found .
It sure does seem any one history (recorded, versus family word-of-mouth - even more romaticizing) may not be true or entirely so, especially if a web site is selling goods with your name ! - But its fun to imagine and read 'em all.
The one thing I turn up on Dunbar's I just don't believe is that we are historically verbose, loquacious, speak in circular and non-sequiter patterns, are excessively self-deprecating [ one presumes to beat others to the punch!] and just KEEP WRITING AND WRITING AND ...well.... talk the same way to this day. ?????
Which reminds of another un-related anecdote that is rather a long reading tome, but is proven in a latitudinal study (I am wide eyed) soon to be longitudinal in I hope another 48 years...... family story with a meaning of life treatise as an aside, all in one long chain-sentence, fettered with crepuscular logic, involute style, and jetsam and flotsam of superfluous adjectives from which I should pick one of ten for the most part !
Anyone whose had the great misfortune of reading some of my longer winded stuff (yes, like this...LOL) knows that which I speak of; which reminds me.....
so grab a chair, have a spell, and listen while the words jingle and jangle from my next family story..... ( corfidians eyeing possible exits, and slip out the back with a fertive glance and perfunctory nod....) -
geo Steve