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Scotland features a vast amount of poems, lyrics, blessings, proverbs, toasts and stories and of course famous writers such as Robert Burns.
Here a small extract of those I like ... partly also with Scottish texts (no guarantee for correctness though).
Auld Lang Syne Scots Poem by Robert Burns |
Robert Burns Original
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind ? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?
And surely ye’ll
be your pint-stowp !
We twa hae run about the braes, and pu’d the gowans fine ; But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit, sin auld lang syne.
We twa hae paidl’d i' the burn, frae morning sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar’d sin auld lang syne.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere ! and gie's a hand o’ thine ! And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught, for auld lang syne.
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English
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup !
We two have run about the slopes,
We two have paddled in the stream,
And there’s a hand my trusty friend !
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Deutsch
Sollte alte Vertrautheit vergessen sein
Und gewiss nimmst
Du Deinen Maßkrug zur Brust
Wir beide sind
über die Hügel gelaufen
Wir beide haben im
Fluss gepaddelt
Und hier ist meine
Hand, mein treuer Freund,
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Scotland the Brave |
English Hark when the night is falling
High in the misty Highlands,
Far off in sunlit places,
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Deutsch Horch, wenn die Nacht hereingebrochen ist
Hoch in den nebligem Hochland,
Fernab an lichtdurchfluteten Orten, |