9 June 1638: James, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Charles I’s royal commissioner for resolving the #Scottish Troubles arrives #Edinburgh#otd In vain.
Four days earlier a 100 of his kin & clients disobeyed his summons to meet at Dalkeith. (NGS)
9 June 1539: the Mayor of #Bristol informs Archbishop Cranmer #otd that the #Scottish preacher George Wishart has been put on trial for remarks in sermons (which may have included a hint that Christ's suffering was only exemplary). Wishart was executed at St Andrews 1546. (NGS)
#FolkloreThursday for #WorldOceansDay: Sea captains were often born from the mating of the #Scottish Highland #Ceasg. This mermaid—half woman, half salmon—was also known as the maighdean na tuinne or “maiden of the wave.” Like other captured #faeries, she was said to grant wishes to her captor. But like any other seagoing siren, she was also capable of capturing humans, who usually lost their lives upon entering her watery domain.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore https://twitter.com/originsoflaoich/status/1494301676257357827?t=bMpvVKyS6DzIMqrs5wto1Q&s=09
#FolkloreThursday for #WorldOceansDay: In the #Scottish#Hebrides the #mermaid did not sport a magical cap as in other lands. Instead she had a magical belt that had to be stolen to tame her. Her descendants were said to have the gift (or curse) of foreseeing who would die at sea.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
Alexander Scott landed in Normandy with the Gordon Highlanders, & saw action in the Ardennes & crossing the Rhine. He later became Head of #Scottish#Literature at the University of Glasgow, & was president of ASL from 1976–79
Published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945, ed. David Goldie & Roderick Watson