Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song, full of the richness of NE Scots dialect and the complex realities of rural life a bare 100 years ago.
And Rabbie Burn’s poem urging social equality: “A Man’s A Man For A’ That”
It was chosen for the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, when Scots reclaimed a modicum of self-governance again. https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o
Words are here: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/a-mans-a-man-for-a-that
Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song, full of the richness of NE Scots dialect and the complex realities of rural life a bare 100 years ago. And Rabbie Burn’s poem urging social equality: “A Man’s A Man For A’ That” It was chosen for the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, when Scots reclaimed a modicum of self-governance again. https://piped.adminforge.de/watch?v=hudNoXsUj0o Words are here: https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/a-mans-a-man-for-a-that