WARNING: This text comprises spoilers from all seasons of Outlander
Season seven of is anticipated to be hitting screens this summer season with an prolonged 16-episode run to make up for the earlier shorter outing. The brand new sequence will see numerous previous Outlander forged members returning to the fold in one thing of a reunion for the sequence. Within the meantime, some Outlander followers have been re-visiting the earlier seasons and are inquisitive about (performed by ) and his a number of identities.
Why was Jamie Fraser known as The Dun Bonnet?
Season three of Outlander coated an enormous interval within the lives of Jamie and Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe), specifically their 20-year separation.
Throughout this time aside, Jamie had many adventures and underwent quite a few adjustments after combating within the Battle of Culloden.
Within the direct aftermath of battle, Jamie was tended to by his sister Jenny Murray (Laura Donnelly) whereas he hid out in a cave close to Lallybroch.
Jamie lived within the cave for seven years as he evaded the Redcoats, who have been trying to spherical up any remaining Jacobite traitors and throw them in jail for his or her half within the rebellion.
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Throughout this time, he grew an enormous beard to disguise his true id and wore a hat, quickly turning into recognized by the moniker Dun Bonnet which meant ‘colored hat’.
Jamie ultimately gave himself as much as the English militia when he feared for his household’s lives with troopers persevering with to seek for him.
The identify appears to have come about as Jamie tried to cover his true id, which might result in his seize.
Because the Dun Bonnet, Jamie grew to become a hermit-like determine on account of his solitary existence within the cave and was a person of few phrases.
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Apparently, the cave used for filming has subsequently grow to be well-known after Jamie hid in there with vacationers in search of it out.
The place in Inverness is named Bonaid Odhair Cave, often known as Dun Bonnet’s Cave, and has an intriguing historical past behind it.
Jamie’s Dun Bonnet storyline is definitely primarily based on a real-life determine with Outlander’s writer Diana Gabaldon’s drawing on historical past for her books.
An actual-life James Fraser, who was a clan chief, hid within the cave following the 1745 Jacobite Revolt, in keeping with Go to Inverness Loch Ness.
Very like Outlander, this man hid from the British Military for seven years within the cave which was situated within the Foyers neighbourhood.
The web site states the native individuals would discuss Dun Bonnet when referring to the fugitive in a bid to hide who he was from any troopers on the hunt for him.
Many bloggers have sought out the filming location for the collapse Outlander, which is regarded as fairly tough to succeed in.
Talking about taking up the Dun Bonnet, actor Heughan beforehand stated he didn’t get pleasure from enjoying this a part of Jamie’s life.
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He instructed Romper again in 2017: “I hated Dunbonnet," occurring so as to add: "The hair and the beard was so tough."
A few of Jamie’s different aliases embody Mac Dubh, the identify he had when he was in jail and translated from Gaelic to ‘the son of the black one’ - referencing his father Brian Fraser’s (Andrew Whipp) darkish hair.
There was additionally the identify Malcolm Alexander which Jamie glided by as a printer of seditious pamphlets in Edinburgh.
Different names embody Alexander MacKenzie, Crimson Jamie/Seumas Ruadh and Jamie McTavish, the final one in all these he used to introduce himself to Claire at their first assembly as a result of she was English and probably a spy.
Outlander season 7 will air later this 12 months and seasons 1 to six are streaming on Lionsgate+ now