How The First Helandman of God Was Maid
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How The First Helandman of God Was Maid
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How the First Helandman of God Was Maid is an anonymous comic poem in Scots preserved in the Bannatyne Manuscript of the sixteenth century. The poem narrates how, following a wager proposed to him by Saint Peter, God creates the first Highlander from a piece of horse manure. The prototype Highlander is depicted as a petty thief and a stealer of Lowlanders' cattle. In the Bannatyne Manuscript the poem's full title is given as How the first Helandman of God was maid, Of ane Horss Turd, in Argylle,
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Anonymous comic poem in Scots
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_The_First_Helandman_of_God_Was_Maid
date created:
2013-04-24T16:20:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T21:05:56Z
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