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Christis Kirk on the Green, the Glossary

"Christis Kirk on the Green" is an anonymous Middle Scots poem in 22 stanzas, now believed to have been written around the year 1500, giving a comic account of a brawl at a country fair.^[1]

Aberdeenshire

Aberdeenshire (Aiberdeenshire; Siorrachd Obar Dheathain) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

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Allan Ramsay (poet)

Allan Ramsay (15 October 16867 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or makar), playwright, publisher, librarian and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh.

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Aureation ("to make golden", from aureus) is a device in arts of rhetoric that involves the "gilding" (or supposed heightening) of diction in one language by the introduction of terms from another, typically a classical language considered to be more prestigious.

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Bannatyne Manuscript

The Bannatyne Manuscript is an anthology of literature compiled in Scotland in the sixteenth century. Christis Kirk on the Green and Bannatyne Manuscript are poetry of the Bannatyne Manuscript.

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Bob and wheel

Bob and wheel is the term for a pairing of two metrical schemes.

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Canto

The canto is a principal form of division in medieval and modern long poetry.

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David Laing (antiquary)

David Laing LLD (20 April 1793 – 18 October 1878) was a Scottish antiquary.

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Dutch Golden Age painting

Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.

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Edmund Gibson

Edmund Gibson (16696 September 1748) was a British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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George Bannatyne

George Bannatyne (1545–1608), a native of Angus, Scotland, was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess.

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George Gregory Smith

Prof George Gregory Smith (20 June 1865 – 3 March 1932) was a Scottish literary critic.

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Iambic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter is a poetic meter in ancient Greek and Latin poetry; as the name of a rhythm, iambic tetrameter consists of four metra, each metron being of the form | x – u – |, consisting of a spondee and an iamb, or two iambs.

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Insch

Insch (An Innis or Innis Mo Bheathain.) is a village in the Garioch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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James I of Scotland

James I (late July 1394 – 21 February 1437) was King of Scots from 1406 until his assassination in 1437.

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James Orr (poet)

James Orr (1770 – 24 April 1816), known as the Bard of Ballycarry, was a poet or rhyming weaver from Ballycarry, Co.

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James V

James V (10 April 1512 – 14 December 1542) was King of Scotland from 9 September 1513 until his death in 1542.

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James Watson (printer)

James Watson (c. 1664 – 1722) was a Scottish printer, bookseller and founder of several Scottish newspapers, coming from a long line of printers.

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John Callander

John Callander (1722–1789) of Craigforth in Stirlingshire was a Scottish antiquary and plagiarist.

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Leslie, Fife

Leslie (Scottish Gaelic: Fiodh Chill) is a large village and parish on the northern tip of the River Leven Valley, to the west of Glenrothes in Fife.

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Maitland Manuscripts

The Maitland Manuscripts are an important source for the Scots literature of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.

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Makar

A makar is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.

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Middle Scots

Middle Scots was the Anglic language of Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Fergusson

Robert Fergusson (5 September 1750 – 17 October 1774) was a Scottish poet.

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Robert Garioch

Robert Garioch Sutherland (9 May 1909 – 26 April 1981) was a Scottish poet and translator.

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Robert Henryson

Robert Henryson (Middle Scots: Robert Henrysoun) was a poet who flourished in Scotland in the period c. 1460–1500.

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St Salvator's College, St Andrews

St Salvator's College was a college of the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland.

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The Tale of Ralph the Collier

The Tale of Ralph the Collier, also known as The Tale of Ralph Collier and The Taill of Rauf Coilyear, is a Scottish dialect Middle English poem composed in the late fifteenth century.

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