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Gaelic speakers who have seen the movie "the Eagle"...?
Does the language spoken by the Highlanders/Britons in the movie bear any resemblance to any Gaelic tongue that you are familiar with? Is it recognizable in any way? Can you pick out enough words from it that you would find it convincing as an Old Gaelic tongue? I was only able to pick out a couple, such as "Hrall" (thrall) meaning slave, and "mac" meaning son.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The language you hear spoken in the movie is modern Scottish Gaelic. I distinguished at least three regional Western Isles accents (Skye, Lewis, and something else I couldn't identify), plus at least one Irish accent, in the spoken Gaelic I heard. I was able to understand about 2/3 of what I heard, including large chunks of the sections that did not have subtitles.
It was not supposed to resemble an old Gaelic tongue. The movie's director says that he deliberately used Scottish Gaelic as "a stand-in for Pictish", since it's a bit early (140 A.D.) for the Gaelic-speaking settlements on the west coast of Scotland to have become well established.
Source(s): I am an intermediate/advanced Gaelic learner (not fluent). I used to live in Skye (in south Sleat) and be able to carry on normal conversations with the local native speakers, and have taught Gaelic at the beginner/intermediate level in the United States. One of my students subsequently became a lot more fluent than I am and went on to become an officer in An Comunn Gaidhealach Ameriga. - 5 years ago
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