Scottish literature

thumb|The Bard (1778) by Benjamin West In Celtic cultures, a bard is an oral repository and professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities.

thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787

literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers

Scandinavian-Scottish literary work

1795 song by Robert Burns

literary festival in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

crime fiction genre by Scottish writers set in Scotland

six-line stanzaic form with rhyme scheme AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines

Medieval Scottish poet and crusader

song genre from the Anglo-Scottish border