Lallans Scots Poetry

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Come and explore the treasures of Lallans Scots Poetry. This lens has some notes on the dialect along with Lists of and Links to major poets, anthologies, and other information sites.

What is Lallans? 

Language or Dialect?

Is Lallans or Lowlands Scots a dialect of English or a separate closely related language?

Like Modern English it developed from Old English a Germanic dialect but there are significant differences in its vocabulary pronounciation and grammar.

Some major features of Lallans follow:

A gerund ending with -in rather than -ing.

Use of 'ae' or 'a' where English has o.

Participles ending in -and and -an instead of -ing.

The -ed suffix is -it or -t.

Ken for Know

One is ane or yin.

Vowel usually a(u) sometimes o(u) plus LL in Standard English is aul aa or aw or awl.

H dropping. Also V from the middle of words.

A plural marker that is -is or -ys.

Confusion and interexchange of sh and s sounds at the beginning of words.

Metathesis of r with thirst becoming thrist etc.

Loan words from French spelt with a y after l or n if the original French word had a palatal sound.

"WH" spelt quh or qh.

Lallans Language Links 

Language Resources Online

Dictionary of the Scots Language
An Online Electronic Lexicon of Lallans Scots!

Great Stuff on Amazon about the Lallans Language! 

A Dictionary of Scots Words & Phrases in Current Use (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebook)

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Scots-English/English-Scots Dictionary (Hippocrene Practical Dictionary)

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Luath Scots Language Learner: An Introduction to Contemporary Spoken Scots

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The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language

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Flickr Photos - Scotland 

[Portrait of Sir Walter Scott] (LOC) by The Library of Congress

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The Scott Monument by National Galleries of Scotland Commons

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Old Town Edinburgh from the Calton Hill by National Galleries of Scotland Commons

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Bookbinding by Martin Burns

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Lallans Scots Poets 

A list of the some of the major Scots Poets

You can use the names on this list for search parameters on Google and Wikipedia.

some of these poets wrote in Scots English rather than Lallans Scots but I have included them if they wrote in a "scottish" way about Scotland!

The list is in chronological order.

Various Balladeers Makars and Folksongs!

John Barbour 1320 - 95 Author of The Bruce

James the First 1394 - 1437. The Kingis Quair

Robert Henryson 1420 - 1490 The Testament of Cresseid and other poems.

William Dunbar 1460 - 1520 Various poems including the famous Lament for the Makaris

Gavin Douglas 1475 - 1522 translated the Aeneid.

Sir David Lindsay 1490 - 1555

Alexander Scott 1520 - 1590

Sir Robert Sempill of Beltrees 1595 - 1680

Grizel Baillie 1665 - 1746

Allan Ramsay 1684 - 1758

Alison Rutherford / cockburn 1712 - 94

Jean Elliott 1727 - 1805

Robert Fergusson 1750 - 74

Robert Burns 1759 - 96

Caroline Oliphant Lady Nairne 1766 - 1843

Anne Lindsay 1750 - 1825

Elizabeth Hamilton 1758 - 1816

Joanna Baillie 1762 - 1816

James Hogg 1770 - 1835

Walter Scott 1771 - 1832

George MacDonald 1824 - 1905

Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 94

Violet jacob 1863 -1946

Marion Angus 1866 - 1946

Helen Cruikshank 1886 - ?

Edwin Muir 1887 - 1959

Hugh McDiarmid 1892 - ?

Kathkeen Raine 1908 -

Great Lallans Scots Stuff on eBay 

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Great Lallans Stuff on Amazon 

Anthologies of Lallans Scots Poetry

The Northern Muse. an Anthology of Scots Vernacular Poetry.

Complied by John Buchan. I own a copy!
It's excellent!

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The Bruce: Or, The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Part 3

The great Epic of Robert Bruce by Barbour

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More songs of Angus, and others

Violet Jacob is one of Scotland's most famous women poets

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The King's Quair: A Poem

Written by James the First while in captivity in England

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William Dunbar: The Complete Works (Middle English Texts)

If you cant afford this try to find the Faber Edition!

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More Flickr Photos of Scotland 

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Smailholm-01 by Peter-Lorimer

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William Dunbar House, Kilburn, London. by Jim Linwood

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Midnight Poet by Hermés

Midnight Poet

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Great Lallans Stuff on CafePress 

New Amazon Voting (Plexo) 

Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic

Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations from the Gaelic

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Poems and Songs (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Burns

Poems and Songs (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Burns

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The Songs of Robert Burns by Donald Low

The Songs of Robert Burns by Donald Low

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