For clarity, Claire gets attacked in this episode but isn't raped. During the time the Redcoat took to try to get his breeches unfastened, Claire was able to calm her self and steady herself for what she needed to do to (by way of slowing down the scene to allow us to watch her recall and processes her previous…

*Refers to his Horse Husbandry Handbook

More accurately, Claire didn't "tell" Jamie she was a virgin but considered since he already knew it (he knew she had been married) she thought there may be some misgivings about it given the fact that we have seen that Jamie has high moral standards and abides by a code of honor and part of this "reveal" reaffirms…

Just for clarity, the village women were WAULKING the wool and singing traditional Gaelic wool waulking songs.
From reading blogs and reviews of those who aren't familiar with the books, I can see how challenging it is to watch the TV series "blind". Some of the dialogue and scenes seem ungrounded and pointless, but…