Dictionaries of the Scots Language
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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Bibliography

Ben, J    Descr. Orchad. 
 
[1529] Descriptio insularum Orchadiarum    Ben, John; MS NLS Adv. 33.2.3, fol. 24; Adv. 33.3.20, fol. 35, two MSS, the first copied by Sir James Balfour 1642, the second by Sir Robert Sibbald c1700. Printed in Barry, George: History of the Orkney Islands, Edinburgh, 1805. p 433ff