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Made my very first purchases on #Bandcamp today! I purchased a compilation by @ionafyfe - a supremely talented traditional #folk singer from #Scotland (who I discovered on Mastodon first) - please check it out and consider going for some great #music! Her Scots language version of "In The Bleak Midwinter" is already a favorite for the season!

https://ionafyfe.bandcamp.com/album/iona-fyfe-digital-download-compilation

#TradMusic #TraditionalFolk #Scots #ScotsLanguage #FolkMusic #CelticMusic #BandcampFriday

Sean Bala

@seanbala@mas.to · 2 months ago

https://ionafyfe.bandcamp.com/album/iona-fyfe-digital-download-compilation

#TradMusic #TraditionalFolk #Scots #ScotsLanguage #FolkMusic #CelticMusic #BandcampFriday

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 months ago

WRITERS!

Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

https://nws.submittable.com/submit

#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

New Writing Scotland Submission Manager

New Writing Scotland publishes works by writers resident in Scotland or Scots by birth, upbringing, or inclination. Prose (fiction and nonfiction); poetry; drama; screenplays; and graphic artwork (monochrome only). We have a maximum recommended length of 3,500 words in total. The work must be neither previously published nor accepted for publication and may be in any of the languages of Scotland.

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 3 months ago

WRITERS!

@writingcommunity

Submit free via Submittable 👇

https://nws.submittable.com/submit

#Scottish #literature #writing #WritingCommunity #IAmWriting #poetry #shortfiction #shortstories #Scots #Scotslanguage #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

New Writing Scotland Submission Manager

HighlandLawyer

@HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social · 4 months ago

Richts that cannae be enforcit in law
Are nae onie kind o richt at aw.
#Scotstober #Richts #ScotsLanguage

Iona Fyfe

@ionafyfe@mastodon.scot · 4 months ago

Today, September 30th is #InternationalTranslationDay. Did you know that Taylor Swift’s iconic Love Story was translated into the Scots Language? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The Scots Language is an Official Language of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Not to be confused with the Celtic language of Gaelic, Scots is a West Germanic language. There are many dialects of the Scots language including Doric in the North East, Orcadian, Shetland and Glaswegian. Do you think Love Story works in Scots?

#InternationalTranslationDay #scotslanguage

HighlandLawyer

@HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social · 5 months ago

Excellent passionate piece by Len Pennie about the Scots language, & the learning thereof
https://youtu.be/Q0G82O6YHSA
#Languages #ScotsLanguage

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5 months ago

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

The Six O’Clock News
Tom Leonard

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
thirza right
way ti spell
ana right way
to tok it. this
is me tokn yir
right way a
spellin. this
is ma trooth.
yooz doant no
thi trooth
yirsellz cawz
yi canny talk
right. this is
the six a clock
nyooz. belt up. — The Six O’Clock News Tom Leonard this is thi six a clock news thi man said n thi reason a talk wia BBC accent iz coz yi widny wahnt mi ti talk aboot thi trooth wia voice lik wanna yoo scruff. if a toktaboot thi trooth lik wanna yoo scruff yi widny thingk it wuz troo. jist wanna yoo scruff tokn. thirza right way ti spell ana right way to tok it. this is me tokn yir right way a spellin. this is ma trooth. yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz cawz yi canny talk right. this is the six a clock nyooz. belt up.

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5 months ago

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 5 months ago

Tom Leonard reads “The Six O’Clock News”

🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZaxEbhibdw

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 5 months ago

—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
🎂 Tom Leonard, 22 Aug 1944

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Glasgow #Glaswegian #voice #Scots #Scotslanguage #TomLeonard

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 7 months ago

Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader

“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots

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📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

Photograph by Duncan Cumming of the Barbour quotation in the Makars’ Court, Edinburgh.

A grey paving stone, engraved with the words

Fredome
is a noble thing

John Barbour
(c.1320–1395) — Photograph by Duncan Cumming of the Barbour quotation in the Makars’ Court, Edinburgh. A grey paving stone, engraved with the words Fredome is a noble thing John Barbour (c.1320–1395)

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 7 months ago

Currently on BBC Sounds: Melvyn Bragg & guests – Michael Boardman & Rhiannon Purdie of the University of St Andrews,, & Steve Boardman of the University of Edinburgh – discuss ideas of chivalry & freedom in John Barbour's c.1375 epic, the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots

3/3

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpm8

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage #chivalry

BBC

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Barbour's 'Brus'

How the earliest poem in Older Scots framed the legend of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn.

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 7 months ago

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

Robert I, King of Scots, killed Sir Henry de Bohun in single combat on the first day of the Battle of Bannockburn #OTD, 23 June 1314. The epic vernacular poem “The Brus” by John Barbour (c.1320–1395) describes the event

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/starn/poetry/the-brus/book-12/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

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Image description: “Bruce and de Bohun”, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. King Robert I, wearing chain mail, with a gold circlet around his helmet, and a flowing red-gold cloak and a surcoat bearing the Scottish lion rampant (red, on a yellow background) , stands up in the stirrups of the grey horse he is riding. He holds the reins tightly in his left hand and wields a battle-axe in his right. Sir Henry de Bohun, with golden plate armour and a flowing red cloth tied to his helm, rides past, his long lance missing the king. He is crouched low, almost seeming to bow, his head lined up for the blow from the king's axe. — Text is too long for ALT-text – however full text can be found via the link, lines 25 to 85. Image description: “Bruce and de Bohun”, by John Duncan (1866–1945), Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum. King Robert I, wearing chain mail, with a gold circlet around his helmet, and a flowing red-gold cloak and a surcoat bearing the Scottish lion rampant (red, on a yellow background) , stands up in the stirrups of the grey horse he is riding. He holds the reins tightly in his left hand and wields a battle-axe in his right. Sir Henry de Bohun, with golden plate armour and a flowing red cloth tied to his helm, rides past, his long lance missing the king. He is crouched low, almost seeming to bow, his head lined up for the blow from the king's axe.

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Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot replied · 7 months ago

Back to the Future: The Bruce & Relevance to the 21st-Century Reader

“Scotland’s Iliad and Odyssey rolled into one”—Christine Robinson discusses how John Barbour’s #medieval epic poem is a liberating text for modern writers & speakers of Scots

2/3

📷Duncan Cumming: Barbour quotation, Makars’ Court, Edinburgh

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage

Assoc for Scottish Literature

@scotlit@mastodon.scot · 7 months ago

Schyr Hanry myssit the noble king…

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https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/aboutus/resources/stella/projects/starn/poetry/the-brus/book-12/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #medieval #14thcentury #history #MiddleAges #Bannockburn #epic #vernacular #poem #Scots #Scotslanguage