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Spey-wife
A Spaewife, spae-wife or Spey-wife etc., is a Scots language term for a fortune-telling woman. "''Spae''" comes from Old Norse language, Old Norse "''spá''", meaning prophecy, to prophesy. The name was used as the title of several works of fiction: Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "The Spaewife"; John Galt (novelist), John Galt's historical romance ''The Spaewife: A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles''; and Paul Peppergrass's ''The Spaewife, or, The Queen's Secret''. It has nothing to do with the River Spey, Spey, a river in Scotland. Melville's interpretation According to F. Melville's ''The Book of Faeries'' (2002), a Spae Wife is also a type of elf. No taller than a human finger, fairy spae wives are usually dressed in the clothes of a peasant. However, when properly summoned, the attire changes from common to magnificent: blue cloak with a gem-lined collar and black lambskin hood lined with catskin, calfskin boots, and catskin gloves. Like human spae wives, they can also predict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scots Language
Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles and northern Ulster, it is sometimes called Lowland Scots or Broad Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language that was historically restricted to most of the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides and Galloway after the 16th century. Modern Scots is a sister language of Modern English, as the two diverged independently from the same source: Early Middle English (1150–1300). Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, as well as a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots. As there are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
