#scots — Public Fediverse posts
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Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Rhiannon Purdie, Professor of English & Older Scots at the University of St Andrews; Steve Boardman, Professor of Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh; & Michael Brown, Professor of Scottish History at the University of St Andrews – discuss John Barbour’s epic poem THE BRUS. Written c.1375, it is the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8
#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #Scots #Scotslanguage
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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See thon raws o flint arraheids
in oor gret museums o antiquities
awful grand in Embro –
Dae’ye near’n daur wunner at wur histrie?
Weel then, Bewaur!
The museums of Scotland are wrang…—Kathleen Jamie, “Arraheids”
from SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018)https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kathleen-jamie/selected-poems/9781509882953
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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This chaumert cairn kists bitties
O oor bricht an battert past—
A things that Scots hae keepit or drappit or lost
Or couldna tak wi them when they deed
Or went awa for guid…—Jim Alison, “Ingaunees”
originally published as a poster for The National Museum of ScotlandToday, 18 May, is International Museum Day
https://icom.museum/en/international-museum-day-2/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #museum #LewisChessmen #archaeology #InternationalMuseumDay
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#dotScot race across the world continues with #Scots #Australia 🏴🇦🇺🌏🤝
https://dot.scot/blog/2026/professor-stewart-gill-on-scot-and-the-scots-in-australia/
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#dotScot race across the world continues with #Scots #Australia 🏴🇦🇺🌏🤝
https://dot.scot/blog/2026/professor-stewart-gill-on-scot-and-the-scots-in-australia/
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#dotScot race across the world continues with #Scots #Australia 🏴🇦🇺🌏🤝
https://dot.scot/blog/2026/professor-stewart-gill-on-scot-and-the-scots-in-australia/
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#dotScot race across the world continues with #Scots #Australia 🏴🇦🇺🌏🤝
https://dot.scot/blog/2026/professor-stewart-gill-on-scot-and-the-scots-in-australia/
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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bide the storm ye canna hinder,
Mindin’ through the strife,
Hoo the luntin’ lowe o’ beauty
Lichts the grey o’ life.—“Sea Buckthorn”, by Helen Burness Cruickshank (1886–1975), born #OTD, 15 May
2/4
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/sea-buckthorn/
#Scottish #literature #20thcentury #womenwriters #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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Frae fields whare Spring her sweets has blawn
Wi’ caller verdure our the lawn,
The Gowdspink comes in new attire,
The brawest ’mang the whistling choir…—Robert Fergusson (1750–1774), “Ode to the Gowdspink”
from The Poetical Works of Robert Fergusson (Glasgow, 1800)#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #18thcentury #RobertFergusson #Spring #birds #naturepoetry #goldfinch
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New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAlmost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
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New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAlmost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
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New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAlmost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
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New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAlmost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
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New Open-Access ebook
Atlas of Scottish History to 1707
published by the Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAlmost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts
https://books.socantscot.org/digital-books/catalog/book/25
#Scottish #history #IronAge #Roman #Picts #Scots #DálRiata #Vikings #Norse #AngloSaxon #earlymedieval #medieval #latemedieval #renaissance #earlymodern
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Scraping an encrustit stane
wi some carved letters, lichent-owre,
an archaeologist, ye glowre;
sae lichtly, lichtly mak it plain…—Robert Garioch, “…That is Stade in Perplexite…”
from A Kist o Skinklan Things (ASL 2016)4/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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Watch an animation of “Sisyphus” online, read by Garioch – via the National Library of Scotland
3/4
https://movingimage.nls.uk/film/2912
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage #animation
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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
sat on the heather a hanlawhile…—Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
sat on the heather a hanlawhile…—Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
sat on the heather a hanlawhile…—Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
sat on the heather a hanlawhile…—Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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Bumpity doun in the corrie gaed whuddran the pitiless whun stane.
Sisyphus, pechan and sweitan, disjaskit, forfeuchan and broun’d-aff,
sat on the heather a hanlawhile…—Robert Garioch, “Sisyphus”
from The Collected Poems of Robert Garioch (Macdonald, 1977)2/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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They are lang deid, folk that I used to ken
their firm set lips aa mowdert and agley,
sherp-tempert een rusty amang the cley…—“Elegy” by Robert Garioch (1909–1981) – born #OTD, 9 May
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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They are lang deid, folk that I used to ken
their firm set lips aa mowdert and agley,
sherp-tempert een rusty amang the cley…—“Elegy” by Robert Garioch (1909–1981) – born #OTD, 9 May
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage
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They are lang deid, folk that I used to ken
their firm set lips aa mowdert and agley,
sherp-tempert een rusty amang the cley…—“Elegy” by Robert Garioch (1909–1981) – born #OTD, 9 May
from The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks 20211/4
https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #Scots #Scotslanguage