Ireth
Myth Weaver
I'm working on a story which involves two characters with chronological, geological and linguistic barriers between them that they have to overcome. The story is set in Scotland in the early 1360's. The protagonist, a newly-turned vampire named Ólan, was born in 1337 and turned in 1360; he travels from his hometown of Edinburgh to Eilean Donan castle early in the novel. When he reaches the castle he meets Aileen, the ghost of a girl who had been murdered there almost 150 years before. Aileen was born and raised in Eilean Donan in 1200, and died there in 1215.
My question here is, what languages could Ólan and Aileen be expected to speak while growing up, and how far apart would their native tongues be? How easily could the two communicate (barring the fact that Aileen is quite insane from a century and a half of isolation on top of being traumatized by her murder by a vampire, which is another issue in and of itself)?
My question here is, what languages could Ólan and Aileen be expected to speak while growing up, and how far apart would their native tongues be? How easily could the two communicate (barring the fact that Aileen is quite insane from a century and a half of isolation on top of being traumatized by her murder by a vampire, which is another issue in and of itself)?