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What is Scots culture? The word culture is understood to include everything that distinguishes one group of people from another. In this section of the website we look at those things that have traditionally been part and parcel of being a Scots speaker. Such things include the written literature, personal and place names, the music and song, and the customs of the country. As a rule this culture – which was named Lowland to distinguish it ... more
The Scottish Song Tradition
The old style ballad (before 1700)
The leading and oldest kind of song in Scots is the historical ballad. The ballad was composed for two kinds of audience: the ordinary people or the courtly gathering. Among the first type, old myths an... more
A History of Writing in Scots
The Northumbrian Anglo-Saxon poem the ‘Dream of the Rood’ – which is carved on the Ruthwell Cross in Dumfriesshire, and dates to c.750 - along with some writings in the Lindisfarne Gospels (from c.900) may be justly accounted the earliest writi... more
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