Makars Court
Dec. 31st, 2005 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tree_and_leafI was at the Writers' Museum in Edinburgh ( http://www.cac.org.uk/venues/writers_museum.htm ) and was reminded once again what a great idea Makars' Court is - Makar is Scots for 'poet' (cognate with 'maker'), and quotations from Scottish poets have been carved in the flagstones.
The most noticable one is from Barbour's Bruce "fredome is a noble thing" - the whole passage is magnificent:
A! Fredome is a noble thing!
Fredome mays man to haiff liking;
Fredome all solace to man giffis,
He levys at ese that frely levys!
But I also really like the Goodsir Smith (1915-75) quotation they chose:
"Bards hae sung o lesser luves than I o thee
O thou my great follie and granderie"
Somehow nails it....
The most noticable one is from Barbour's Bruce "fredome is a noble thing" - the whole passage is magnificent:
A! Fredome is a noble thing!
Fredome mays man to haiff liking;
Fredome all solace to man giffis,
He levys at ese that frely levys!
But I also really like the Goodsir Smith (1915-75) quotation they chose:
"Bards hae sung o lesser luves than I o thee
O thou my great follie and granderie"
Somehow nails it....