Daughter Of Druids At Home At Last

The figure in the center of the photo, tall and black-clad but flamboyantly red-scarfed, is my wife. She is also of Scots-Irish origin, along with Dutch, Danish, English, German and Native American. Her mtDNA haplogroup is "H", with mutations that give her matches with persons of Central European descent as well as with Anglo-Americans. Her father, whose forebears were sons of Donegal, is an R1b, with a haplotype intermediate between the Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype and the modal haplotype of Ui Niall's countless offspring - to wit: 13-24-14-11-14-12-12-12-13-14-29. Here she stands, on a mountain side in Argyll, communing with spirits of long-departed Gaels, and paying heed to "tunes of the blood" that only fellow R1b descendants can feel.