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"This Celtic background made these Highlanders a high-spirited people, as stalwart and vivid as the rugged land they conquered and tamed, devoted to family and soil and principle. If they were sometimes violent in nature, the other side of such emotionalism revealed itself in a love of poetry and music that gave the Highland clans many haunting and lyrical Gaelic melodies .."