In Ireland and Scotland broken men were clansmen who no longer had any allegiance to their original clan,[1][2] and might be outlaws.[3][4]
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References
- Adam, Frank; Innes, Thomas (2004). The Clans, Septs and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands 1934 (reprint ed.). Kessinger Publishing. pp. 27. ISBN 978-1-4179-8076-5.
- Campbell of Airds, Alastair (2002). A History of Clan Campbell: From Flodden to the Restoration: (Volume 2 of A History of Clan Campbell) (illustrated ed.). Edinburgh University Press. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-902930-18-3.
- Fox, Richard Gabriel (1971). Kin Clan Raja and Rule: State-Hinterland Relations in Preindustrial India (reprint ed.). University of California Press. pp. 146.
- Roberts, John Leonard (2000). Clan, King, and Covenant: History of the Highland Clans from the Civil War to the Glencoe Massacre (illustrated ed.). Edinburgh University Press. p. 134.