Oor Scots, yer Scots, the National Library of Scotland’s Scots
Andrew Martin, National Library of Scotland Literature and the Arts Curator
The National Library of Scotland is Scotland's lairgest library so it is nae surprise that is whar ye wull find aw the buiks that hae bin publisht in Scots.
We ettle tae hae aw buiks scrievit in Scots whither new or auld, and aw buiks scrievit aboot Scots, whaurivver they are publisht. In coorse we hiv Oor Wullie and The Broons bit mair tae.
Tak tent an hae a neb at the National Library of Scotland collections.
Oor collections include buiks, manuscripts, sangs, maps, soon recording, an film.
Here's a wee introduction tae some of the material we hae aboot Scots an in Scots.
Ye micht wint tae listen tae an auld Scots sang or ballad
- 'The Twa Corbies'
- 'Sir Patrick Spens'
- 'Thomas the Rhymer'
Tak tent tae Makars frae the auld days
- John Barbour
- Blind Harry
- Robert Henryson
- William Dunbar
- Gavin Douglas
- David Lyndsay
Dowie tales frae
- Jean Elliot
- Carolina Oliphant
- Alicia Spottiswoode, Lady John Scott
Ye wull ken this yin
- Robert Burns
But why no gie these yins a go
- Robert Fergusson
- Allan Ramsay
- Robert Tannahill
These gleg Scottish scrievers yaise English an Scots
- Walter Scott
- John Galt
- S R Crockett
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- John Buchan
- Jessie Kesson
- Nancy Brysson Morrison
- Nan Shepherd
Lichtsome wirds o poetry
- Marion Angus
- Hugh MacDiarmid
- Violet Jacob
- Helen Cruickshank
Kenspeckle wirds
- 'The New Testament in Scots' translated by W L Lorimer
Guid man wi smeddum
- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Braw plays in Scots
- 'Ane satire o the thrie estates' by David Lyndsay
- 'Jamie the Saxt' by Robert McLelland
- 'Mary Queen of Scots got her head chopped off' by Liz Lochhead
- 'The Guid sisters' by Michel Tremblay and Bill Findlay
- 'Bondagers' by Sue Glover
- 'Cyrano de Bergerac' by Edmond Rostand and Edwin Morgan
Fir the bairns
- William Soutar
- 'Traditional Scottish nursery rhymes', edited by Norah and William Montgomerie
- 'The minister's cat'
- 'Katie Bairdie had a coo and onything' publisht by Itchy Coo
- Sheena Blackhall
Weel kent bit noo publisht in Scots
- 'Winnie the Pooh' by A A Milne and James Robertson
- 'Peter Rabbit – The Tale o Peter Kinnen' by Beatrix Potter and Lynne McGeachie
- 'Asterix and the Pechts' by Jean-Yves Ferri an Matthew Fitt
- Tintin and 'The Derk Isle' by Hérge and Susan Rennie
Scrievers theday
- Janet Paisley
- Liz Lochhead
- Tom Leonard
- James McGonigal
- Liz Niven
- W N Herbert
- James Robertson
- Kathleen Jamie
- Rab C Wilson
- Matthew Fitt
Scrievers frae Shetland
- Christine De Luca
- Robert Alan Jamieson
Guid reads an aw
- 'S'cots – the language of the people' edited by Carl MacDougall
- 'The smoky smirr o rain' edited by Matthew Fitt and James Robertson
- 'New writing Scotland'
- 'Lallans'
Mair aboot Scots
- 'Scots: The mither tongue' by Billy Kay
The National Library of Scotland his wittens aboot so monie guid Scots buiks an Scottish
scrievers, hae a leuk!
http://www.nls.uk
Ony questions? Ask away. Speir oot Andrew Martin, Curator, Literature and the Arts a.martin@nls.uk
