Answers to Scottish Quiz 3.
1. A Johnnie Armstrong, B The Lochmaben Harper, C Kinmont Willie, D Dick o’ the Cow, E Hobbie Noble,
2. An ancient earthwork in Galloway.
3. Abbotsford. The town jail.
4. A Outside Edinburgh,
where French and Flemish weavers and followers of Mary Queen of Scots settled.
B The hills of Galloway, so called because they were a great centre for gipsies.
5. A famous gipsy royal family of the Borders.
6. Selkirkshire, between St. Mary’s Loch and the Loch of the Lowes. Famous as a meeting place of Border worthies and literary figures including Hogg and Scott.
7. Jedburgh.
8 The Countess of March and Dunbar who spiritedly defended Dunbar Castle against the Earl of Salisbury.
9. Michael Scot, the wizard, with the assistance of a demon.
10. Famous border abbeys.
11. There was a shortage of provisions and a raid was necessary to replenish the larder.
12. Archibald Douglas, fifth Earl of Angus.
13. The legend about her is based on Agnes Murray of Ellibank who married Sir William Scott of Harden.
14. The Scotts, Barons of Buccleuch.
15. One of the marauders operating in the Borders, so called in allusion to their camping on the mosses.
16. That of Archbishop Sharp of St. Andrews, murdered there 3rd May, 1679.
17. Battle of Chevy Chase.
18. Mary Hamilton.
19. A laird who lived beside the Esk and attained an immortality by being satirized as a wooer by Lady Nairne.
20. The land between the Esk and Sark on the Borders of England and Scotland, not firmly held by either country but ‘debateable’.
21. Galashiels.
22. Hawick.
23. Selkirk.
24. From its use by Margaret, wife of Malcolm Canmore.
25. Margaret MacLachlan and Margaret Wilson, killed for their religion by drowning at stakes set in the Solway Firth.
26. St. Cyrus, Kincardineshjre.
27 Biggar’s Biggar.
28. Scott’s servant, originally a poacher who appeared before Scott in his capacity as sheriff and whose fine Scott paid.
29. Sweetheart Abbey.
30. The Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh (Lucken— locked).
31. The woman traditionally reputed to have thrown a stool at Dean Hannay when he read the new liturgy in St. Giles in 1637.
32. The hill which overlooks Edinburgh.
33. A famous and beautifully ornamented Celtic stone cross (Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire).
34. St. Andrews Castle.
35. Loch Leven Castle.
36. The Heir o’ Linne.
37. Robert Bruce.
38. Thomas the Rhymer, also known as True Thomas.
39 Huntly Bank.
40. Yarrow.