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bard
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.

Ossian
thumb|upright=1.2|Ossian Singing, Nicolai Abildgaard, 1787
Scottish literature
literature written in Scotland or by Scottish writers

Orkneyinga saga
Scandinavian-Scottish literary work
Is There for Honest Poverty
1795 song by Robert Burns
Edinburgh International Book Festival
literary festival in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Tartan Noir
crime fiction genre by Scottish writers set in Scotland
Burns stanza
six-line stanzaic form with rhyme scheme AAABAB, with tetrameter A lines and dimeter B lines
Gillebríghde Albanach
Medieval Scottish poet and crusader
border ballad
song genre from the Anglo-Scottish border