Folk Play Links - Scotland / Alba
Compiled by Chris Little
Groups listed may be folk club, morris dance or amateur drama groups, as well as traditional performers. Publications listed may be cited, extracted or summarised publications, as well as full text.
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A Berwickshire Bard
[by Robert McLean Calder, 1897, pp.117-119, 59 - 'Hogmanay' - Polwarth fragment]
005 *
Diversions of a Country Gentleman
[by Sir George Douglas, 1902, p.32 - 'A Scottish Lady of the Old School [Lady Alicia Anne Scott][husband was Lord John Douglas Scott]' - Guisards at [Spottiswoode, Westruther]]
008 *
The Goloshans
[citation of Emily Lyle, in
Tocher, No.32, Winter 1979-1980, pp.107-112 - Westruther fragment from
Sound Archive]
012 *
Sheep-Head and Trotters,
[by James Lumsden [late of Nether Hailes [NT5675]], [1892], pp.43-49 - 'Hogmanay' - "Guisers" fragment]
019 *
Further Report on Folklore [in Galloway,] in Scotland
[by the late Rev Walter Gregor, in
Report of the Sixty-Seventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1898, pp.459-461, 501 - Balmaghie [parish][Glenlochar ?] & Laurieston (2) texts]
029 *
The Mummers, or Guisers
[by Bro W. Simpson, in
Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, Vol.III Pt.1, 1890, pp.81-82 - Glasgow fragment]
036 *
Rural Recollections;
[by George Robertson, 1829, pp.118-119, 15, 63 & 181 - "gyzarts" [at Comiston Farm, Colinton ?], until 1800]
037 *
Scott and the Newcastle Antiquaries
[by [George Willis ?], in
Willis's Current Notes, VolVII No.LXXVII, May 1857, p.35 - (Letter of John Bell - 20th Dec. 1812;) Letter of Sir Walter Scott - 22nd Dec. 1812 - as below]
038 *
Scran [image archive]
[manuscript from David Laing [Secretary to the Bannatyne Club] Collection, University of Edinburgh Library [Ref. La.III.828] for
Two Bannatyne Garlands from Abbotsford, by Sir Walter Scott [1st Baronet], 1848, p.5 - Subscription required]
042 *
The Scot Abroad
[by John Hill Burton, 1864, Vol.I p.309fn - guisards at [Liberton]]
044 *
Yule and Hogmanay
[by [Anon], in
Hogg's Weekly Instructor, Vol.VI No.153, 29th Jan. 1848, pp.361-363 - [Edinburgh ?] fragment; (superceded by
Norval and Glenalvon [i.e. Douglas], by John Home)]
050 *
Border Sketches
[by [Anon][Nina Minto][Emma Eleanor Elizabeth Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound][3rd Countess of Minto], 1870, p.68 - [at Minto House, Minto ?]]
051 *
Christmas Mummers
[by W. E., in
Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.IV No.104, 25th Dec. 1875, pp.506-507 - Gizards or Guisards in Teviotdale; (citation of
Galations, by James Maidment, 1835)]
052 *
Christmas Mummers
[by W. E., in
Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.V No.111, 12th Feb. 1876, p.133]
055 *
Scottish Borders Memory Bank
[Track 12 - Audio of Jim Hall's dictated interview and transcript of Crailing Guiserts' play - including the text.]
058 *
The Christmas Play of "The Seven Champions"
[by S. Arnott, in
Notes & Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.X No.260, 21st Dec. 1878, p.489 - (Hollington text; extract from
article, by Dr Rimbault, in
Bow Bells, Christmas No., 1869;) extract from
Life of Scott, ed. by Lockhart]
059 *
The Goloshans
[citation of Emily Lyle, in
Tocher, No.32, Winter 1979-1980, pp.107-112 - Melrose & Morebattle texts from
Sound Archive]
067 *
Buckhaven
[by [Sir Walter Scott][1st Baronet], in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.II No.XII, Mar. 1818, p.627 - see his memoirs]
072 *
Re: Papa Stour
[citation of Trevor Stone, in
The Morris Dancer, Vol.1 No.11,]
080 *
The Sword-Dance : Papa Stour, Shetland
[by Alfred W. Johnston, in
Old-lore Miscellany of Orkney, Shetland, Caithness and Sutherland, Vol.V Pt.IV, Oct. 1912, pp.175-185 - extract from Hibbert; extract from
Memoirs of Scott; extract from Scott; extract from Wilson; extract from
Shetland, by Cowie, 1879, p.187]
083 *
Christmas Mummers
[by W. E., in
Notes and Queries, 5th Ser. Vol.IV No.104, 25th Dec. 1875, pp.506-507 - (Gizards or Guisards in Teviotdale;) citation of
Galations, by James Maidment, 1835]
084 *
Daft Days
[by John Wood Reddock, in
The Every-Day Book;, Vol.II, 18??, cols.18-21 - Falkirk text]
090 *
Scran [image archive]
[illustration from Bob McCutcheon Collection [Search for 'Galoshins'] - Subscription required]
091 *
The Guisers in Stirling
[by James Lucas, in
The Stirling Antiquary, Vol.I, 1893, pp.67-69, 42 - extract from
The Stirling Sentinel - as
Galations, by James Maidment, 1835]
093 *
The Goloshans
[citation of Emily Lyle, in
Tocher, No.32, Winter 1979-1980, pp.107-112 - Broxburn fragment from
Sound Archive]
099 *
Dictionary of the Scots Language
[Comprises
A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, 1931-2002 &
The Scottish National Dictionary,1931-1976 - Search for 'gysar', 'guyser', 'galatian', 'guiser' and 'mumming']
108 *
The Ballad Minstrelsy of Scotland
[ed. by [Robert Alison], 1871, pp.xv-xvi - "Galatians" or "Galashins" South-west Scotland fragment; may derive their name from "Galashin" who was the brother of "Kemp Owyne"]
109 *
The Book of Days [? edition]
[ed. by R. Chambers, 1869, Vol.II - Guisers or Guizards in Scotland at Christmas, Hogmanay, New-year's Day and Handsel Monday]
110 *
The Burlesque of "Galatian." The Guisards of Scotland : (No.3)
[by Principal [of the University of Aberdeen][William Duguid] Geddes, in
Scottish Notes and Queries, Vol.II No.12, May 1889, pp.177-179 - citation of (
Rambles in the Far North, by R.Menzies Fergusson, p.158;)
Galations, by James Maidment, 1835; (
Yorkshire Notes and Queries, Apr. & Jul. 1888;)
Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, by John MacTaggart, 1824]
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