Tag archives: Hogmanay
First feet, black buns, and hansels: the language of Scottish New Year’s traditions
Get up, goodwife, and shake your feathers, And dinna think that we are beggars; For we are bairns come out to play, Get up and gie’s our hogmanay My grandma taught me this ditty longer ago than I care to remember, and it served as my first introduction to the word Hogmanay. Nowadays, many people [...]
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