The haggis is a traditional Scottish dish, considered the national dish of Scotland as a result of Robert Burns ' poem Address to a Haggis of 1787.

There are one hundred planned boxes, each of which contains a rubber stamp circle poem by the Scottish poet and artist, Alec Finlay.

The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish poem ( Edinburgh: University Press )

* Robert Burns published a brief irreverent poem, On A Celebrated Ruling Elder, as an elegy for a Scottish Presbyterian.

Lady Grisell was also memorialized by Scottish poet Joanna Baillie, who claimed to be a distant relative, in a poem.

* The Tay Bridge Disaster, a poem written by Scottish poet William McGonagall

The Gododdin: The Oldest Scottish poem.

This was a lengthy poem recounting the life of William Wallace, the Scottish freedom fighter, written around 1477, 172 years after Wallace's death.

These include a poem by William Hamilton of Bangour called " The Braes of Yarrow " first published in Edinburgh in 1724 and said to be " written in imitation of an old Scottish ballad on a similar subject ".

The event was commemorated in a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster, written by William McGonagall, a notoriously unskilled Scottish poet.

An example of the use of the genre is the short poem by the 15th-century Scottish makar Robert Henryson Robene and Makyne which also contains the conflicted emotions often present in the genre.

His principal work, The Sabbath, a sacred and descriptive poem in blank verse, is characterized by devotional feeling and by happy delineation of Scottish scenery.

Other work on Scottish customs includes the editing of the 16th-century tract The Complaynt of Scotland, adding an essay exploring Scottish folk music and customs, printing a volume of Scottish descriptive poems, and nearly finishing his Scenes of Infancy, a diffuse poem based on border scenes and traditions.

" The Tay Bridge Disaster " is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet, William McGonagall, who has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history.

However, by the middle of the 16th century, the four-beat alliterative line had completely vanished, at least from the written tradition: the last poem using the form that has survived, Scottish Ffielde, was written in or soon after 1515 for the circle of Thomas Stanley, 2nd Earl of Derby in commemoration of the Battle of Flodden.

The name for the city comes from the poem, " The Pleasures of Hope ", by the Scottish poet Thomas Campbell.

A Scottish poem with a similar theme, Quhy Sowld Nocht Allane Honorit Be, is included in the Bannatyne Manuscript of 1568 and English broadside versions from the 17th century are common.

A Scottish poem with a similar theme.

His study of Italian verse bore fruit in the mock-heroic poem of Anster Fair ( 1812 ), which gave an amusing account of the marriage of " Maggie Lauder ," the heroine of the popular Scottish ballad.

It was after his retirement from this position that he edited a collection of Scottish poetry in which the first poem is Sir Patrick Spens.

The Scottish ballads were not early current in Orkney, a Scandinavian country ; so it is very unlikely that the poem could have originated the name.

James Thomson ( 23 November 1834 – 3 June 1882 ), who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night ( 1874 ), an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.

* 1296 – First War of Scottish Independence: John Balliol's Scots army is defeated by an English army commanded by John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey at the Battle of Dunbar.

The battle of Dunbar was a crushing defeat for the Scottish Covenanters

Oliver Cromwell invaded Scotland in 1650, and defeated the Scottish army in battles at Dunbar and Worcester.

It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.

The war began in earnest with Edward I's sack of Berwick in March 1296, followed by the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Dunbar and the abdication of John Balliol in July.

John de Warenne had won a victory over the aristocracy of Scotland at the Battle of Dunbar and his belief that he was now dealing with a rabble proved that he had greatly underestimated the Scottish forces.

* Battle of Dunbar ( 1296 ), in the Wars of Scottish Independence.

At the Battle of Dunbar, Scottish resistance was effectively crushed.

According to tradition, local kings of this period lived at both Traprain Law and Din Eidyn ( Edinburgh, still known as Dùn Éideann in Scottish Gaelic ), and probably also at Din Baer ( Dunbar ).

The earliest account of the tree was given by William Dunbar, a Scottish explorer, in his narrative of a journey made in 1804 from St. Catherine's Landing on the Mississippi River to the Ouachita River.

The Reivers became so much of a nuisance to the Scottish and English government that in 1525 the then Archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin Dunbar, put a curse upon all the reivers of the borderlands.

* Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 – 1625, by Sir Archibald H. Dunbar, Bart., Edinburgh, 1899, p. 256.

In March 1402 Henry IV appointed Percy royal lieutenant in north Wales, and on 14 September 1402 Percy, his father, and the Earl of Dunbar and March were victorious against a Scottish force at the Battle of Homildon Hill, taking prisoner among others Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas.

Among their grievances was the King's failure to promptly pay the soldiers ' wages, his favour towards Dunbar, his demand that the Percies hand over their Scottish prisoners, his failure to put an end to Owain Glyn Dŵr's rebellion through a negotiated settlement, his increasing promotion of his son Prince Henry's military authority in Wales, and his failure to ransom the Percies ' kinsman, Henry Percy's brother-in-law, Sir Edmund Mortimer ( 1376 – 1409 ), whom the Welsh had captured in June 1402, and who had a claim to the crown as the grandson of Lionel, 1st Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of King Edward III.

During the Wars of Scottish Independence the Clan Ross fought against the English at the Battle of Dunbar ( 1296 ) where their chief, the Earl of Ross was captured.

* Dunbar, John G. ( 1999 ) Scottish Royal Palaces: the Architecture of the Royal Residences during the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods.

Some of the workers who built the New Bedford River may have been Scottish prisoners-of-war captured at the Battle of Dunbar, since a number of such prisoners were used on drainage schemes in the Fens, because labourers were scarce.

The main poets of this Scottish group were Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas.

Scottish control was consolidated in the next century and when Lothian was ceded to Malcolm II after the battle of Carham in 1018, Dunbar was finally an acknowledged part of Scotland.

The second Battle of Dunbar ( 1650 ) was fought during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms between a Scottish Covenanter army and English Parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell.

Whalley took part in Cromwell's Scottish expedition, was wounded at the Battle of Dunbar, and in the autumn of 1650 was active in dealing with the situation in the north.

The Scottish Covenanters were defeated ( 1650 ) at the battle of Dunbar.