And I'm not saying that I know either. I don't. I'm just saying that there are a great many possibilities as to why Ewan MacColl was so drawn to the traditions of Highland culture....aside from strictly negative assertions that he was a "cultural imperialist".

We may all have been a great many things in the past that we do not outwardly appear to be now....and I mean "the past" going back for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years.

And I said "may"...because I don't know for sure. Nor do you.