Sassenach means “stranger” , foreigner or “outlander,” and is a nickname thatJamieuses forClaireBeauchamp RandallFraser. It also refers to people of English descent. It can also be a derogatory term or insult , depending largely on how it is said and to whom . Special Offer – book yourLallybroch tour now for £32.50 per person. Unique private andcustom tour bookingsfor the autumn . Phone or Whatsapp us on +447305-294773 . Availability is currently good for mostautumn tours. If you are planning ahead for 2022 pleasecontact usas we can now accept provisional bookings for next year .
Outlander‘s Claire Randall is called a number of unsavoury names ranging from witch to whore, but only one eventually becomes a term of endearment:Sassenach.
It means a foreigner. Actually, it’s a less than polite Gaelic word for an English person , but it’s nothing personal .
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So how did it become a kind of pet name for Jamie to call Claire ?
It all stems from the fact thatOutlanderauthor Diana Gabaldon wanted some Gaelic in her story .
“Very early on I began doing research as much as I could into Gaelic. While I don’t speak Gaelic by any stretch of the imagination, we want a few little terms and sentences scattered around to give a flavour of the language,” Gabaldon said
Sassenachwas one of those key terms.
“Well, I had this English woman showing up, and I did know thatSassenachis in fact a fairly derogatory term for someone who is a foreigner, but specifically for an English person given the long and acrimonious relationship between England and Scotland. So, it seemed natural that someone would refer to Claire as aSassenach,” she continued.
Jamie eventually takes up the term for her, but he doesn’t mean it as an insult.
“To start with, she has a slight idea that it’s a derogatory term, but she knows he’s plainly not trying to insult her. He’s just pointing out that she’s strange,” Gabaldon says.
“As time went on, he adopted it as a term of endearment for her, and because one of the things and only one of the things that attracts him to her, is that she is an English woman. He kind of likes to think of it as ‘I’ve got one of their women.'”
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Sassenach means “foreigner” or “outlander,” and it is Jamie Fraser’spet name for his wife , ClaireBeauchamp RandallFraser. 
as the relationship between Jamie and Claire deepens , Jamie starts to call Claire Sassenach until it becomes a kind of pet name for her . Jamie says it in a playful way without any of the the malice in normal usage
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