• "Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

    Diana Gabaldon: "Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.
    "Dragonfly in Amber". Book by Diana Gabaldon, 1992.