Studies in Lowland Scots/General Index

by James Colville

 

INDEX

 

An attempt has been made in this Index to provide in it not merely a reference to proper names, but to the subject-matter of the volume. With this purpose in view, the details have been grouped under more or less comprehensive heads. Many of these have intentionally received but slight treatment in the text, having been introduced merely as casual steps in the argument, or as incidental illustrations. Thus, under such names as Rome, Constantinople, and the like, the reader is not to look here for information on their historical importance.

 

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Aryan, 17, 19, 226, 243-62 (passim).

 

Aryas. See Table of Contents.

 

Authors quoted or alluded to:—(a) English—Addison, Joseph, 76, 113; Aytoun, Professor, 85; Bacon, Francis, "Essays," 141; Beaumont and Fletcher, 127; Boswell, James, 119; Burke, Edmund, 36; Caedmon, 2; Chaucer, 20, 22, 39, 61, 76, 84, 153, 203, 226, 241; Defoe, 94; Dickens, 39, 192; Eliot, George, 164; Fletcher, John, 127; Gibbon, 4; Goldsmith, 117; Gray, 89; Hobbes, 95; Henley, 78; Hole, Dean, 64; Hume, David, 77-8; Jeffrey, Francis, 94; Johnson, Samuel, 27, 42, 117, 119; Jonson, Ben, 40, Kipling, Rudyard, 95; Langland, "Piers Plowman," 61, 71; Macaulay, 109; Milton, 2, 96, 131, 144-5; Pope, 60; Raleigh, "Soul's Errand," 84; Sackville's "Mirror," 156; Shakspere, 6, 30, 32, 35, 38, 41, 51, 60, 69, 72, 73, 77, 81, 87, 88-90, 107, 123, 130, 139, 149, 152, 173-4, 179, 181, 202, 209-10, 234, 240; Smollett, "Humphrey Clinker," 78, 81; Stevenson, "Underwoods," 76, 98-9, 203; Spenser, 61, 65, 84, 96; Swift, 94; Tennyson, 60; Thonson, James, 77; Wordsworth, 59, 60, 167.

 

(b) Scots—quoted or referred to as using Lowland Scots:-Alexander, Dr. W., "Johnnie Gibb," 16, 23, 42, 60, 147, 155; Barbour, "Brus," 19, 20, 30, 31, 39, 42, 61-3, 96, 234; Baillie, "Letters," 77; Barrie, J. M., 59, 63, 75, 97, 117, 118, 134; Blair's Autob. 237; Blind Harry, 61; Beattie, James, 75, 78, 94, his "Amha," 154, and "Scoticisms," 76, 94; Bell's "Ledger," 231-3; Burns, 31, 39, 41-2, 59, 60-6, 68-70, 76-8, 85, 90, 96, 98-9, 102, 104, 106-8, 112-3, 117-8, 137-9, 150, 154, 163, 172-3, 177, 181, 183, 198, 201-2, 223, 230, Scoto-Fr. in Burns, 241-3; Carlyle, 28, 60, 62, 78, 113, 117, 132; Chalmers, 75, 85; Cockburn, Henry, 59, 94, 100, 110; "Complaint of Scotland," 199; Crockett, S. R., 97, 98; Dunbar, 61, 96; Douglas, Gavin, 61, 76, 87, 96; "Duguid, Dr." 150; Fergusson, 61, 69, 98, 101, 106, 112, 127; Ferrier, Miss, 60; Fountainhall (Lord), 228-237; Galt, 60; Halyburton's "Ledger," 229-230; Hamilton, Mrs., 60; Henryson, 61, 136, 218; Law, the 254 Diarist, 105; Lindsay, Sir David, 61, 96, 179; Kames, Lord, 84; Montgomery, "Cherry and Slae," 237; Holland's "Buke of the Howlet," 123; Hope, Sir Thomas, 229, 235; "Kilwuddie," 201; Lockhart, 181; Maclauren, Ian, 117; Macdonald, George, 99; Nicholson's "Brownie," 29; Ramsay, Allan, 33, 63, 106, 112, 127, 211; Scott, 27, 41, 42, 60, 70, 96, 98-9, 117, 132, 177, 189, 223; Waverleys, 10, 181, 182, 193, 205, 226, 232, 241; Sibbald, Sir Robert, 198; Skinner, John, 62, 106; Skinner, Bishop, 178; Thomas the Rhymer, 20; "Urquhart, Robert," 85, 89; Wynton, Chronicler, 61.

 

Ballads—As I went on a Monday, 22, 31; Brownie of Blednoch, 29; Battle of Harlaw, 90; Book of Ballets (Tho. Morley), 155; Carrick for a Man, 107; Cheild Roland, 18; Cumberland Ballads, 193; Herd's Ballads, 132; Hairst Rig, The, 64, 128-129; Johnnie Armstrong, 206; Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre, 132; Peebles to the Play, 61; Sir Patrick Spens, 33.

 

Bible References—2, 3, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 64, 65, 85, 87, 147, 181, 184, 206, 207, 249, 261.

 

Children's Games, 106, 127, 129, 131, 135, 165, 185-7, 196.

 

Church, The, 73-5, 119, 121-134; Calvinism and Calvinistic, 192, 193; Catholic and Catholicism, 227; Covenanters and covenanting, 193; Cistercians — Pluscarden was not a Cistercian foundation, as stated in the text. Alexander IL granted the settlement, in a Charter of 1236, to the White Monks of Vallis Caulium (valley of cabbages) in the Netherlands, founding about the same time Elgin Cathedral. The Abbey, as we see it, was mainly the work of the Benedictines from Dunfermline, who acquired it in the fifteenth century. After the Reformation it fell to Alexander Seton, builder of Fyvie and all-powerful chancellor under James VI., 143; Culross, 64; Kinloss Abbey, 143; Pluscarden, 143; Presbyterian, 144; St. Giles (Elgin), 144; St. Serf, 64.

 

Cottar, The—Cissy Wood's Story, 160-4.

 

Cottar's (The) Saturday Night in Cape Dutch, 217.

 

Dialect—Effect of Printing on, 109, 141; Of the Schoolboy, 109; Vulgarity in use of, 117.

 

Dialects—General, 97; Classification of, 99-100; Study of, 103, 104-105, no, 139, 141; in Fair Isle, 112; Germany, 108-112; Switzerland, 100.

 

Dialects illustrated (English)—Anglican, 82, 83, 101, 165, 166; Cumberland (general), 68, 146, 149, 151-153, 167-180, 182; Geography and Ethnology of, 165; Scots Connection, 165, 167, 681; Archaic Element in, 173; Idiom and Grammar, 168, 170-171; Dorset, 42 (Barnes); Kent, 132, 146; Somerset, 38; Wilts, 101; York, 146, 101; South and North, 45, 168.

 

Dialects illustrated (Scots)— Aberdeen, 28, 45, 65, 66, 75, 78 Aberdonian, 78, 99, 100, 104, 106, 110, 123, 130, 133; Aberdeenshire, 147, 153, 155, 157, 172, 178, 194; Angus, 98, 99, 133, 139, 163, 184; Angus and Mearns (phonetics), 161-162; Ayr, 42, 66, 221; Ayrshire, 99, 102, 103, 107, 112, 113, 148, 150, 166, 200, 201, 212; Banff, 42, 133, 146, 150, 151, 153, 160; Buchan, 23, 64, 99, 101, 105, 147, 148, 151, 153, 154, 166, 198, 217; Borders (The), 30, 65, 76, 98, 99, 125, 127, 154, 160, 170, 180-182, 184, 187; Campbeltown, 102, 182; "Flory Loynachan," text and glossary, 113, 116; Caithness, 62, 65, 99, 181; Edinburgh, 18, 86,98, 102, 105, 111, 119, 127-8, 130, 132, 135, 146, 179, 180, 181, 205, 211, 229, 230, 237; Dumfriesshire, 100, 103, 142, 150, 151; Dumbartonshire, 181, 192; Fife, 31, 42, 64, 65, 66, 71, 75, 85, 99, 102, 104, 109, 111, 113, 118, 120, 121, 124, 130, 133, 134, 135, 139, 140, 142, 147, 148, 149, 152, 153, 155, 156, 169, 170, 172, 177, 179, 181, 184, 188, 210, 211; Northern, 9, 13, 45, 63, 77, 83, 90, 91, 97, 102, 146, 168, 169, 173, 182, 197; Village Life in, 117-139; Vocables of, 139-141; Forfar, 70, 104, 111, 128, 139; Galloway, 65, 98, 99, 102, 104, 111, 125, 139, 165; Cattle Trade, 166, 167; Words and Idioms, 172; Glasgow, 36, 81, 88, 102, 111, 134, 135, 150, 169, 171, 173, 174, 182, 186, 188, 232, 233, 236, 238-9; Lanarkshire, 42, 66, 72, 83, 99, 125, 127, 139, 150, 170, 178, 182, 203, 209, 210; Lothians, 42, 65, 98, 99, 111, 170, 188; Kincardine, 98, 161, 182; Wood Narrative, 160-164; Moray—Farm Life in, 141-160; Ross Narrative, 142-160; Phonetics and Vocables, 152-154; Dialect, 64, 66, 99, 125, 133, 136, 181; Nithsdale, 142, 147, 170; Shaw's Glossary, 149-177; Ulster, 103, 123, 124, 132, 148; Orkney and Shetland, 10, 18, 42, 62, 63, 69, 70, 71, 85, 88, 100, 101, 103, 123, 124, 125, 131, 132, 133, 134, 146, 149, 152-154, 166, 170, 181, 198, 206, 210; Orcadian Sketches, 18; Edmonston's Glossary, 42, 100; Norse, 65, 110, 132, 165, 166, 182, 195; Perthshire, 129, 133.

 

Farm Life in Morayshire, 141-160. See for details, Contents III. 2.

 

Folk Lore, 129, 130, 135, 136, 154-155, 183, 185, 186, 187; Auld Nick, 185; Candlemas, 151; Charm(a), 160; Clyack Feast, 154; Clooty, 152; Guisers, 104, 129; Hades, 28; Hallowe'en, 129, 154; Hansel Monday, 75; Hogmanay, 104; Maiden, The, 154; Mummers, 104; Pechs, 220; St. Katharine's "Well, 211; St. Swithin's Day, 153; St. Michael's Day, 201; Wee Bunnock, 150; Weather Lore, 189.

 

Folk Names for (a) Animals:—Ask, esk, the newt; calls, to a cow, 148, duck, 149, pigeon, 149, lapwing, 156, bat, 128, turkey-cook, 130; clip-sheer, earwig, 149; oushie, wood-pigeon, 124; dunter, eider-duck, 124; gellie, leech or tadpole, 120; foggie-toddler, yellow bee, 149; garie-bee, 149; golak, beetle, 149; gleg, gnat, 122; keelie, sparrow-hawk, 122; lerrick, lairrick, lark, 126; paitrick, partridge, 124; rannie, wren, 129; Sandy Cam'l, pig, 133; St. Anthony's pig, 133; staig, colt, 147; stokannet, sheldrake, 172, 180; spyug, sparrow, 125; teuchat, lapwing, 125; wallop, lapwing, 156; whaup, greater curlew, 119; whittret, weasel, 124; yellow yite, or yorlin, yellow hammer, 156. For (b) Plants:—Apple-reenie, 119, 121; bachelor's buttons, 121; bane-wort, 177; benner gowan, 177; bun-weed, 148; boon or boor-tree, 123-4, 159; corn fever-few, 117; curly-doddy, ribwort, 123; dishielogie, tussilago, 156; gairner's gairtens, 121; gool, 148; grundie-swallie, groundsel, 123; little goodje, sun spurge, 123; lilly-oak, lilac, 121; liquorice, common rest-harrow, 123; lucy awrnits, earth nuts, 123; soorocks, sorrel, 123; speengie rose, peony, 121; stinkin Elshender (Alexander), stinkin Willie, stinkweed, and weebie—all names for ragwort, 148.

 

Folk Songs, 130, 135-136, 146.

 

Grimm's Law and Diagram, 7-9.

 

Historical Allusions:—(1)—Events, 2, 61, 71, 76, 77, 89, 90, 120, 157, 166, 193, 228, 231, 235, 236, 237. (2) Personages—"Robin" Bruce, 107; Knox, 77, 157, 183; Melvill, Andrew, 77; Dundas, Henry, 120; Harley, Earl of Oxford, 94; Huguenots, 199, 228; Hardwioke, Chancellor, 89; Turner, Sir James, 229; Sweno, Norse hero, 143; Pyrrhus, 261; Rob Roy, 78; Darius, 245; Cope, Sir John, 89; Graham of Claverhouse, 228; Hackston of Rathillet, 237; Archbishop Sharp, 237; Cromwell, 27, 77, 78, 231, 232, 240; Lord Stair, 89; Lord Lorn (1st Marquis of Argyle), 77; Lethington (Secretary to Queen Mary), 183; Lollards, 166; William of Orange, 228; Alexander II., 143; James V., 119, 230; James VI., 77, 127, 179; Jacobites, 77, 88, 120, 178; Napier, Sir Charles, 244; The Union, 181.

 

Languages illustrated:—Anglo-Saxon—1, 2, 9, 11, 13, 16, 19, 24, 39, 41, 43, 44, 45, 65, 123, 128, 171, 177. Danish—70, 108, 112, 149 (Denmark). Dutch (Holland)—13, 19, 25, 32, 43, 72, 171, 179, 188, 191, 192, 196, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206 (in Scots), 209, 210, 220, 228. Dutch (Cape-Taal)—13, 179, 185, 188, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 213, 215, 216, 217, 218, 220, 222, 224; Taal (affinity with German), 195, 215; affinity with Gothic, 206; phonetics of, 194, 195, 223; phonetics of Braid Scots, 190, 195, 196, 197, 198, 202, 203, 215; Burns in "Taal," 192, 198-9, 210, 212-17, 220-25; Reitz's translation, 212-13, 216, 220. English (general)—76-71, 66, 204; historical, 24, 29, 30, 34, 39, 84, 127, 165, 166, 202, 232; grammar, 34, 35, 36, 39, 76, 78; phonetics, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 79, 80-3, 86; provincial dialect of, 97; Scots in, 97; Inglis tongue, 76. French—11, 37, 71, 83, 104, 170, 199, 204, 229; in Scots, 184, 227-43. German—High, 7-9, 12, 124, 153, 168; Low, 7-9, 31, 195; Heliand, 25; general, 177, 182, 191, 198, 202, 205, 209, 215, 216, 222, 231. Iranic—244, 263; Zend-Avesta, 244; Ahura-Mazda, 245, 256; Indo-European, 7, 9, 22, 261. Keltic—general, 7, 39, 41, 63, 67, 77, 124, 178, 192, 200-1, 222, 226, 244, 258; Gaelic, 39, 40, 42, 63-4, 66, 67, 68, 77, 83, 103, 110, 124, 163, 191, 200-1, 204, 222, 247; Erse or Irish, 39, 77, 81, 124, 150, 232, 245; Welsh, 248. Latin—general, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 247; in Gothic, 15; grammars in Scots, 233-7; grammar, 15, 35, 37, 40, 90; Greek—general, 193, 244; grammar, 8, 10, 35, 40, 90; in Gothic, 11, 15, 19, 26, 27, 32, 36. Norse—32, 65, 182, 195; Frisian, 7, 9, 13, 43, 160, 188, 191, 205; Icel., 179, 181, 184, 200; Norse-Kelt., 25; Norse-Goth., 32; Norse in Scot., 166; Scand. (Norse), 5, 7, 10, 14, 39, 42, 63, 66, 110, 132, 171, 177, 179, 180, 188, 201, 204, 213; Runes, 6, 9, 10, 11, 21; Phœnician, 9, 21. Sanskrit—7, 14, 39, 40, 90, 244, 245, 246, 258, 262; grammar, 40. Semitic—14, 257, 261. Slavonic—7, 18, 19, 244. Teutonic,—11, 21, 28, 35, 37, 41,43, 64, 90, 194, 205, 226, 244, 248, 258, 261. Vaidic—18, 34, 243, 257, 258.

 

Note to Norse above.—The bulk of the volume goes to illustrate, directly and indirectly, the ancient and enduring influence on the Makers of Lowland Scotland of their Norse kinsmen from over the North Sea. In this connection Chalmers in his "Caledonia" says—"The Flemings who colonised Scotland in the 12th century settled chiefly on the east coast, in such numbers as to be found useful, and they behaved so quietly as to be allowed the practice of their own usages by the name of Fleming-Lauche (cf. Eng. Dane-lagh), in the nature of a special custom." So it happened that the "Laws of the Four Burghs" forms one of the oldest and most illuminating documents on the history of the Scots vernacular. This couplet, in popular fashion, gives emphasis to the point:—

"Boeytter, Brea (d), in (an') griene Tzis,
Iz goed Ingelsch in' eack goed Friesch."

It was late before the name Scottis tongue was given to Lowland speech in contrast to Erse or Gaelic. In point of fact, the Lowland tongue is mainly the archaic form of the ancient Northumbrian, and therefore ought to be invaluable to the student of historical English.

 

Minor sources—Abbotsford Series (ed. G. Eyre Todd), 106; Atkinson, Mr., 103; Alliterative Poems (ed. F. J. Amours, B.A.) (Sc. Text Soc.), 124, 227; Angellier, Mons., 108; Baillie, Robert ("Letters"), 77; Ballantyne, John, 206; Beowulf, 17; Birrell, Augustine, 95; Bopp, 17; Breal ("Essai de Semantique"), 91; Burness, William, 219; Burt, Edward, 111, 113; "By-ways of History," Colville's, 229-233; Calderwood, Mrs., 89, 92, 109; Campbell, Sir Colin of Glenorchy, 77; Carmichael, 235; Chambers' Dom. Annals, 102; Traditions, 105; Popular Rhymes, 150; Christison, Sir Robert, 79; Cunningham of Craigends (S. H. S.), 127; Cramond, Dr., 155; Carrie (biographer of Burns), 78, 117; "Diversions of Purley," Home Tooke, 38; Dick-Lauder (Moray Floods), 189; Dunlop, Matthew, 116; Elphinstone, of King's, Aberdeen, 229; Erskine, 79-80, 86; "Farewell to Edinburgh," 98; Flory Loynachan, 113-6; Foulis, Ravelston, Diary, 185; Furnivall, Dr., 40; Gibson (Cumb.), 101, 105, 173; "Good Words" (Dr. MacCullooh), 235; Gregor, Dr., 101, 105, 129, 133, 142, 166, 211; Grimm's Law, 7-8, 17, 41, 245; Grosart, Dr. ("Poems of Alexander Wilson"), 105; Haldane, Dr., 73; Hamilton, Mrs., 60; Heliand (Die), 25; Henderson, T. F. (Scott. Vernacular Literature), 96; Hermand, Lord, 86; Holland's "Buke of the Howlat," 123; Horace, 33; Innes, Cosmo, 229; Junius, Francis, 2; Kantian Philosophy, 256; Latham, 262; Law, Dr. T. G. (Nisbet's Scots Test.), 44; Laws of Four Burghs, 39, 61, 87; Lowther's Journall (1629), 222; Masson, Professor, 2; Morley, Henry ("Shorter English Poems"), 61, 71, 136; Müller, Max, 243, 246, 260-261; Mure, Elizabeth, of "Caldwell Papers" (1712), 240; Nansen, 179; Napier of the Mint (1590), 179; Nisbet, Murdoch, 43, 44; Miss du Toit, 214; Olive Schreiner, 192; Penelope in Scotland, 98; Penn, 94; Privy Council Regs., 63, 202, 231-232; Punch, 79; Purvey's Revision of Wyclif, 43; Records—Burgh, Kirk-Session, and Guilds, 63, 236; Robertson, Joseph, antiquary, 64; Robertson, historian, 78; Robertson of Ochtertyre, 88; Ross, John, Narrative, 157-160; Ruddiman, Thomas, 235; Sackville, Induction to the Mirror for Magistrates, 156; Sanders, Robert, printer, Glasgow, 235; Schippert, 108; Skene, historian, 64; Simson, Alexander, grammarian, 235; Skeat, Prof., passim; Skinner, John, 62; Stanley, 81; Smith, Adam, 78; Statistical Account of Scot., 101, 102; Stevenson the Engineer, 133; Ten Brink, 108; Thomson, Thomas, antiquary, 100; Tudor's Orkney and Shetland, 132; Varro, 247; Wallace, Dr. William, 65; Wallace, Professor, 177; Wallace, Covenanter, 193; Wiggin, Kate Douglas, 98; Willcock's Argyll, 77; Wilson, Alexander, 105; Wood, Cissy, 161, 163; Wyclif's Bible, 1, 43; Young, Arthur, 132; Young, Sir Peter, 237.

 

Moeso-Gothic, historical names connected with—Adrianople, 6; Ægean, 5; Alario, 6; Andalusia, 5; Asia Minor, 2; Atanlf, 6; Arian heresy, 3; Athanaric, 6; Attila, 6; Auxentius, 3; Balkans, 5, 6; Bulgaria, 3, 6; Cappadocia, 5; Carpathians, 5; Chalons (battle), 6; Claudius (Emp.), 5; Constantinople, 3; Dacia, 5; Danube, 5; Decius (Emp.), 5; East Goths (Ostrogoths), 5; Ermanaric, 5; Eusebius of Nicomedia, 3; Erithigern, 6; Huns (Tartars), 5, 6; Moesia, 3, 43, 44; Odoacer, 6; Theodoric the Great, 2, 6; Theodosius (Emp.), 6; Trehizond, 5; Ulphila=Wulfila, 1, 2, 6, 205; Valens, 6; Vandals, 5; Wallachia, 5; West Goths (Visigoths), 5.

 

Moeso-Gothic, fragments of—Arezzo scrap, 6; Bucharest ring, 6; Book of Kings, 3; Codex Argenteus, 2, 6; Facsimile as frontispiece; Epistles, 40; Epistle du Rumonim, 6; Ephesians, 29; Milan fragment, 6; Viennese MS., 10.

 

Moeso-Gothic Gospels, names associated with—Camb. Univ., 2; Dort, 2 Dusseldorf, 1; Francis Junius, 2; Landgraf of Hesse, 1; Arnold Mercator, 1; Prague, 1, 2; Ruhr, 1; Stockholm, 2; Upsal, 2 Werden, 1; Wulfila (Bishop), 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21, 24, 26, 35, 40, 41, 42, 64, 65, 87, 133, 147, 157, 181, 184, 205, 206, 207, 213, 258, 259; his translation, 2, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30-3, 38, 49, 53, 65, 82, 133, 147, 206, 247, 258, 259, 260. For further details, see Contents I.

 

Nationalities referred to—France, 108, 227-41; Germany, 136, 138, 153, 167, 186, 188; Goths, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 15, 28, 43, 205, 258; Guth = God, 28; Gut-thiuda, 6, 7, 22; Gutos, 6; Gothones, 6; Holland, Hollander, 2, 25, 66, 72, 103, 110, 138, 188, 190-1, 193, 196, 198, 204, 209, 211, 228, 232-3; Hindu, 113, 244, 258, 250, 260 Non-Aryan—Basques, 243; Eskimo, 249; Lapps and Finns, 243; Magyars, 243; Mongols, 258; Osmanli, 243; Scotsman, 191, 192, 206, 207; Scot, The, 77, 110, 206, 207, 209; Scots, imitative, 81-5, 94, 110; Scottish, bi-lingual, 71, 77, 79; Scottish, in Ulster, 103, 123-4, 148; Scottis, braid, 192; Scottis, braid, = Doric, 14, 85, 92, 99, 210; Scotland, 156, 165, 166, 167, 199, 200, 201, 203, 204, 205, 211, 212, 250 ; Transvaal, 132, 160, 190, 205, 208, 209, 224, 259.

 

Persons and Places of Linguistic Interest—Ahura-mazda, 245; Auld Howf, Dundee, 224; Buchanan, 81, 111; Bullers o' Buchan, 149; Bushman's Hoek, 204; Cupar-Ang-gus, 81; Cowgate, 81, 111; Dakshin Aranya, 245; Deccan, 245; Erin, 245; Esk, 143-149; Eyemouth, 180; Farintosh, 16; Fridge, Frier, 22; Frome, 81; Gaikwar, 250; Gate Slack, 198; Gart, Garth, Gort, 25, 51, 65; Golgotha, 17; Great Orme's Head, 14, 20; Horatius Codes, 17; Hydaspes, 250; Jupiter, 256; India, 120; Indus, 244; Kaisar, Caesar, Czar, 11, 15, 18; Kelso, 111; Kirkcaddy, 81; Krames, 205; Kruger, 63, 198; Luckenbooths, 211; Lichfield, 40; MacDougal, Madowall, Madool, 165; Malloch, Mallet, 83; Murdoch, Murdok, 83; Mackenzie, Menzies, 84; Milngavie, 19; Mount, Mounth, 61; Nero, 248; Norder-ey, 166; O'Dell, 10; Ormuzd, 245; Paardeberg, 201; Rheingau, 19, 22; Rome, 6, 81; Rouinania, 6; Saline, 253; Sand-Biichse, 231; Scinde, 244; Selkirk, 111; Sodor, 166; Start Point, 224; Suderey, 166; Thursday, 256; Tinto, 18, 203; Tins, Tuesday, 10, 21, 27, 28; Veldt, 200, 204, 216, 217, 225; Wednesday, Wodin, 256.

 

Popular Verse—Adam and Eve, 130; "Arnha'" (Beattie), 154; Biggin' o't The, 161; Broken Bowl, The, 174; Carrick for a Man, 107; Cherries on the Rise, 127; Fife Toast, A, 134; Ford's Morning Walk, 223; Nievvi-nievvi-nik-nak, 128; Nursery Rhymes, 128, 183, 185; Nursery Rhymes (Border), 187; Rhymes, 167; Rhymes (Cumb.), 173; Scots wha hae, 112; The Priest o' the Pairish, 146; The Weaver, 120; Wee Bunnock, The, 150; Wee Wifickie (Alexander Watson), 106; Weather Rhymes, 189; When Auld Robin Bruce, 107.

 

Proverbs—Lowland Scots, 66-71; Lowland Scots and Cumberland, 167, 168, 177, 217.

 

Social Customs—Birley man, 64, 177; Boer Op-sij, 205, 218; Bull Ring, 189; Candlemas Feast, Cummers' Feast, 181, 205, 240; Duke's Canaries, 180; Callow's Hill, 67; Hebridean tanning, 101; Jeddert Justice, 67; Kraam-bezuk, 205; Mercat Cross, 72; "Macfarlane's Bowet," Michaelmas Moon, 167, 240; Nicks (Cu.), 213, 223; Pasch (Easter), 15, 157, 160, 220, 227, 229; Riding the Marches, 201; Ross Narrative, 157-160; Sheelin' Law, 181; Skiddaw Grays, 180; Soordook Sogers, 132, 180; Summer Sheelins, 199; The Broose, 201; Tumlin' Wheels, Tummlincar, 181; Wochen-Bett, 209; Whip-the-Cat, 188.

 

Vernacular, The Scots—(1) General—42-5, 62, 64, 79, 96, 97, 109, 192; imitative, 81-5, 94, 110; bi-lingual, 71, 77, 79; in Ulster, 148; New Test. in Scots, 43-4; Scots and English, 76-95; Scots law terms, 72-3; Scoticisms, 35-6, 39, 40, 76, 78, 84-94, 122; "Kailyard," The, 60, 98, 117, 140, 171; "Scottis tongue," 87; "braid Scottis," 192. (2) Vocables of—86-95, 113; terms for quantity, 86, 138; expletives, 86; epithets, 86-87, 92; archaisms, 87, 89, 90, 93; social interest, 92-3; Scots vocables familiar in English, 97-8; spurious Scots, 97, 117, 118; Scots malapropisms, 84. (3) Grammar of— 63, 71, 76, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 171, 219. (4) Phonetics and idioms of—12, 36-39, 41, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 110, 113, 118, 171-2, 174; Scholarship (Scots), 41.

 

Village Life in Fifeshire, 109, 157. For details, see Contents III.

 

Places Referred to Casually

 

• Anster (Anstruther), 152
• Arbroath, 128, 242
• Ardchattan, 143
• Armenia, 252, 260
• Auchinleck, 27

• Bactria, 261
• Badenoch, 143
• Beatily, 143
• Black Sea, 260, 263
• Black Water, 143
• Buckhaven, 75
• Byzantium, 3

• Calcutta Asiat. Soc, 244
• Campbeltown, 113, 116
• Campvere, 228, 229
• Canterbury, 16, 248
• Caspian, 260, 263
• Ceylon, 22
• Craighall (Ceres), 234
• Crail, 234
• Cupar, 70, 103, 186

• Donau (Danube), 9, 260, 262
• Dunbar, 235
• Dundee, 104, 111, 119, 131, 224, 233
• Drakensberg, 203, 204

• Elgin, 143, 144, 145, 155, 183 (tune)

• Fair Isle; 112
• Falkland Palace, 119, 120
• Findhorn, 145
• Forres, 143

• Garioch, 90, 112
• German (North), 249
• Germany, 249
• Glamis, 119, 120

• Hamburg, 26
• Hawick, 139
• Hebrides, 63
• Hindoo Koosh, 260
• Hull, 228
• Humber, 103, 165

• Inverness, 78, 110, 145
• Iran, 244
• Irvine, 201
• Islay, 65

• Keldon Hill, 143, 145: Heldon in text
• Kilmalcolm, 81
• Kintyre, 113, 169
• Kirriemuir, 134
• Kyle, 166

• Leyden, 192
• Limpit Mill, 163
• Lithgow Peel, 62
• Locher Moss, 100
• Lomond Loch, 99
• Lossie, 143
• Lucklaw Hill, 121

• Mark Brandenburg, 231
• Milngavie, 19
• Muchalls, 163

• Newark, 64
• Newbattle, 143

• Ochtertyre, 88
• Osnaburgs, 120
• Oxus, 258

• Paisley, 98, 105, 127, 170, 173
• Paropamisan, 260
• Pathhead, 66
• Petlethy, 119

• Ronaldshay, North, 132
• Rotterdam, 190, 192
• Roumania, 6

• Sark, 166, 167
• Sarmatian Plain, 244, 258
• Scots Craig, 119
• Selkirk, 111
• Sobraon, 121
• St. Andrews, 111, 119, 152, 176
  • Sharp, Archb., 119, 237
  • Archdeacon of (1502), 230
  • Andrew Duncan, regent in St. Leonard's (1595), 233
  • Kirk-Session Records, 240
• Start Point, 224
• Stonehaven, 142, 160, 163
• Strath Clyde, 165
• Switzerland, 100

• Tournay, 330
• Tours, 241
• Trebizond, 5
• Turnberry, 107
• Tyne at Haddington, great flood (1775), 189