LL-L: "Scots in the Baltic" [E/S] LOWLANDS-L, 10.AUG.1999 (04)

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From: Andrew Eagle [K27 at compuserve.com]
Subject: Scots in the Baltic

A whilie syne a puckle fowk wis speirin anent Scots fowk flittin tae
Scandinavia, the Nether Lands an the Baltic.
Weel! A gat roond tae finndin the beuk that A read something anent the
maiter in. The beuk's cried:

A while ago a few people were inquiring about Scots emigration to
Scandinavia, The Low Countries and the Baltic.
Well! I got round to finding the book in which I read something about this
subject. The book is called:

An Historical Atlas of Scotland c. 400 - c. 1600
Edited by Peter McNeill and Ranald Nicholson
Uni. St. Andrews 1975
ISBN 0 9503 904 0 2

Inby is a wee airticle (twa A4 blads) an cairts shawin whaur the centers o
troke wis an whaur Scots fowk settelt.

Inside is a small article (two A4 pages) and maps illustrating where trade
centers were and where Scots settled.

The beuks mentiont in the bibliography wis:

The books mentioned in the bibliography were:

Davidson, J. and Gray. A,  The Scottish Staple at Veere (1909).
Dow, James. Scottish trade with sweden 1580-1622, S.H.R. XLVIII (1969),
124-50.
Lythe S.G.E., The Economy of Scotland in its European setting 1560-1625
(1960).
Murray, A.L., The Customs Accounts of Dumfries and Kirkcudbright,
1560-1660, Dumfries Trans.
Rooseboom, M.P., The Scottish Staple in the Netherlands (1910)

Burton, J. Hill, the Scot Abroad (1881)
Christensen, Thorkild L., Scots in Denmark in the sixteenth century,
S.H.R., XLIX (1970), 125-45.
Dow, James, Skotter in sixteenth-century Scania, S.H.R., XLIV (1965),
34-51.
Fischer, T.A., The Scots in Germany (1902).
Fischer, T.A., The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia and Hinterland
(1903).
Fischer, T.A., The Scots in Sweden (1907).
Steuart, A.F., (ed.), Papers relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793
(s.H.S., 1915)

Nou it wad interestin tae ken gin onie remnants o the Scots tung bides in
thae airts. (A mean juist bits o vocabular!)

It would be of interest to know if any remnant of the Scots language
remains in those areas. (I mean vocabulary items)

Andy

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