Scots Language : 5 x Iain W. D. Forde Signed Books : A Chronikil o Scotland etc

5 x Iain W. D. Forde Books (All Signed by the author)

Hale Ir Sindries (1999)
Taid o that ilk (2009)
The Kirk The Skuil The Buik (2007)
Swallae an Amethyst (2013)
A Chronikil o Scotland : A Historie in Scots (2015)

All 5 books are first editions and are all signed by the author. ALL are illustrated apart from 'A Chronikil o Scotland'. All books in very good clean condition throughout.

Iain W.D. Forde attended a school in Edinburgh where Scots was taught but not allowed in the playground, contrary to the usual situation. He followed the profession of architecture in Edinburgh all his working life until retiring to write. Now that the nation of Scotland is moving slowly towards freedom he hopes to see the day when the Scots language is also loosed from its chains.

Scots is the language of Lowland Scotland, based on the Anglian tongue brought to the British Isles from northern Europe by the post-Roman immigrants. Scots is also sourced from the countries that are her neighbours – Ireland; the Scandinavian countries; France; the Netherlands and England. Like all languages Scots has dialects which are mutually intelligible. Scots rose to be the chief language of the Scottish Court; of the Church; of literature; and of the people, in the centuries before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, after which it declined. In speech, song and poetry Scots survives. Formal Scots prose has declined and needs to be restored.

(Platform, Scotland 1)