here he was at something of a loss , as he had no firm notion what year it was ( brian died-god , will die-when jamie was nineteen , and if jamie was born in may of 1721-or was it 1722 ? -and he was two years younger than jenny ... ) and thus no idea what might have been happening in the world of late , but he delayed a bit , explaining his antecedents in some detail-that was good manners , for one thing , and for another , his birthplace in kyle of lochalsh was far enough away from lallybroch that the frasers were unlikely to have met any of his people .