Wandering Willie's Tale | Compare and Contrast
Seventeenth Century: In the seventeenth century, the old feudal relations involving service and protection, though passing away, still survived to some extent in Scotland, especially in the northern Highlands region.
Modern Day: Feudal tenure was legally abolished in Scotland in 1748, and by the nineteenth century, when Scott was writing, it was only a memory. Today it is hardly even that; the notion of landlord-tenant relations involving military service or any other sort of relationship beyond rent payment is hard even to grasp.
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