Poetry of Scotland includes all forms of verse written in Brythonic, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, French, English and Esperanto and any language in which poetry has been written within the boundaries of modern Scotland, or by Scottish people.
A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript, the major source for Scottish Medieval and Early Modern poetry
The first part of the text from the Gododdin from the Book of Aneirin, sixth century
The seal of Gavin Douglas as Bishop of Dunkeld
George Buchanan, playwright, poet and political theorist, by Arnold Bronckorst
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair
Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, legal name Alexander MacDonald, or, in Gaelic Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill, was a Scottish war poet, satirist, lexicographer, political writer and memoirist.
The poet's Gaelic name means "Alasdair, son of the Reverend Alasdair". His father, also named Alasdair, was known as Maighstir Alasdair which was then the way of referring to a clergyman in Scottish Gaelic. In English, Maighstir Alasdair was known as the "Reverend Alexander MacDonald".
Castle Tioram is the traditional seat of the Clan MacDonald of Clanranald.
Allt Coire Mhuilinn, near Kilchoan, where Alasdair MacDhòmhnaill both farmed and lived with his family while working as a schoolmaster.
David Morier's depiction of the 1745 Battle of Culloden – An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745
After Culloden: Rebel Hunting by John Seymour Lucas depicts the rigorous search for Jacobites during "The Year of the Pillaging."
