I do agree with you Dan, old Scots is even harder to understand than old English, and both need translated to modern English if we are to understand it. This was an interesting tour and good, even if I haven't read a lot of Robbie Burns. I probably would have read more, but as you say it is simply too much of a strain to figure out. I couln't get my head around most of it and so no doubt missed out on a lot of interesting stuff he wrote. This has been fun, watching you ramble around Dumphries and visit places I will never see in person. It is grand of you and Mazzy to take us around and show us the interesting sites and talk about the people and history. You always manage to find things I have never heard of before and that is really great. Stay warm you two, and see you on the next one.
Great video again guys 😊 You should of considered visiting Drumlanrig Castle whilst in Dumfries, not too far away and really interesting history including the recent theft and recovery of Leonado a da Vinci masterpiece.
Loved it! I always remember seeing a scrawled poem in pencil in a house used by officers in WW1/WW2. It was part of a Burns poem and said " O' What a gift he'd gi us, If we could see ourselves as others see us". Apologies to purists out there if its not correct! but it led me to research and find out who had penned the original. Always remember Dan song lyrics are only poems set to music. Any road up keep on doing what you are doing ,,,,,,, love it!
It’s a quote from the poem “To a Louse”. Written by Burns when (he said) he saw a louse or flea crawling on the bonnet of a fine young lady in church one Sunday. Like a lot of Burns’ poetry it uses metaphors about nature to reflect on the human condition, often in a wryly humorous or ironic way. In this case Burns thinks about his own reaction to the flea, having cursed and insulted it in the poem, and how maybe - like the flea - we’d all be better off if we were aware of how others saw us - “Oh wad Some Power the giftie gie us, Tae see oorsels as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion” “If only God (“Some Power” avoids any accusation of blasphemy) would give us the gift (“the gift would give us”). To see ourselves as others see us! It would stop us doing stupid things and deluding ourselves!” A loose translation and it doesn’t scan so well, but that’s what it means.
My favourite... Ae fond kiss, and then we sever; Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. Who shall say that Fortune grieves him, While the star of hope she leaves him? Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me; Dark despair around benights me. I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy, Naething could resist my Nancy: But to see her was to love her; Love but her, and love for ever. Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted. Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest! Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest! Thine be ilka joy and treasure, Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure! Ae fond kiss, and then we sever! Ae fareweel, alas, for ever! Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Love that sweet remembrance stone! That’s a Scottish song on it. (Burns collected them.) “Drive the ewes to the hills. Drive them where the heather grows. Drive them where the stream flows, my beautiful dear.” And here is a lovely version of it sung by Dougie Maclean, to lend some atmosphere to your drives through Scottish countryside (and thanks for taking us with you!) m.ua-cam.com/video/hvWOkWEzizI/v-deo.html
She's Purty ❤ Bubbly 🍾 And lovely 😍 A fine couple 💑 THE MOST CELEBRATED non biblical Poet ever to have tread the earth 🌎 I have heard of the burns trail in Dumfries 😉 Brig O' Doon ( House ) The park over there is Beautiful Heard about walkin on the brig Heard about the final resting place Unfortunately Scotland's son's Mausoleum has been left to ruin failing maintenance and upkeep - Shocking to leave such heritage to ruin . I have heard of St Giles and a building close by where Burns stayed . I have heard of sitting at the desk in the inn where burns stayed and wrote The Gristle may be worn though 🤭 Burns Cottage And THE AULD ABBEY And No. 135 And there is ironically also a bachelor's club of sorts in that area ... 🤣 JAH BLESS ... 🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻🔥🚶🏻
So you were on The Burns Trail Extremely scenic is the area where people park at the outset of the trail The river with stone slopes of running water etc BURNS IS NOT " If it's your kind of thing " HE IS THE GREAT SCOTS BARD ALONG WITH WILLIAM ST CLAIR OF ROSlLIN BURNS IS THE MOST LOVED SON OF SCOTLAND The Scottish and longside English translation is in many a print But the ancient Scottish is BURNS POETRY and the dialect has an unparalleled ring to it And as for you doing one or two sites on THE BURNS TRAIL ARE YE MAD 🤣 THE BURNS TRAIL IS LIKE THE KNYSNA HEADS OR THE GARDEN ROUTE IN south africa MY ADAGE IS CLEAR If you haven't been tae Scotland Ye hae nae been tae anywhere A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT 👍🏻🔥🚶🏻
How is it that you cannot emulate the Scottish dialect and writ utilized by Butns ? Rather amusing that your tongue is all twisted up when you attempt the Scottish reading 🤣
@@TravelTrollsTV I'll do a reading 📚 in the new year IF JAH SPARES ME AND IF JAH IS WILLING It has been thought by some that I can attempt a reading of one or the other Burns work I can also do a rendition of GIN I WAS GOD by Charles Murray When I was in Scotia Dear I was tested by the best brothy accents around And they were baffled that I could understand them I was born with sound or tone on the ear And I impersonated a few family friends , teachers and the likes for mony a year 😂 It is possible you may enjoy a Burns reading / rendition / recital from a bedraggled excuse of a poet like mesel' ... 👍🏻🔥🚶🏻
Excellent Video Thanks for sharing Dan & Mazzy...
Thanks for giving me a great chance to see the important place of Robert Burns.
Bon Voyage, Dan and Mazzy!
I do agree with you Dan, old Scots is even harder to understand than old English, and both need translated to modern English if we are to understand it. This was an interesting tour and good, even if I haven't read a lot of Robbie Burns. I probably would have read more, but as you say it is simply too much of a strain to figure out. I couln't get my head around most of it and so no doubt missed out on a lot of interesting stuff he wrote. This has been fun, watching you ramble around Dumphries and visit places I will never see in person. It is grand of you and Mazzy to take us around and show us the interesting sites and talk about the people and history. You always manage to find things I have never heard of before and that is really great.
Stay warm you two, and see you on the next one.
Very interesting loved the antique displays I'd give it an 8 also Keep on Truckin
That's some awesome Robert Burns information!! Thanks Dan and Mazzy! :)
Thanks again for sharing your adventures :) super day to ya both :)
Bright and shiny thanks again for the cool tour good bit of history !!
Found the video very interesting indeed,plenty of interesting information about the place.well done folks👏👍
Hi dan & mazzy 👋 good upload those gravestones were massive liked the mausoleum where Robert Burns &. His family are buried 👍
Great info on burns! Enjoyed all!!👍😁
Really interesting vlog. We are definitely going to check these burns sites out. Thanks for sharing this
Thanks for another great video!
Great video again guys 😊 You should of considered visiting Drumlanrig Castle whilst in Dumfries, not too far away and really interesting history including the recent theft and recovery of Leonado a da Vinci masterpiece.
It was closed for winter.
Thank you for putting this up great video!
come to Chicago, you will see the 1800's Scottish, Welsh and Irish graves are also HUGE!!!
Thank you. I really enjoyed that. C from the little haunted cottage in Ireland 👻👻👻🏡🏡🏡🍀🍀🍀
Ostentatious grave stones,
No need indeed..
That’ll be my ode for the day.
Great and interesting history, good job guys 👍 👌😘
Really interesting.
Thanks for sharing
what auction do you go to
Loved it! I always remember seeing a scrawled poem in pencil in a house used by officers in WW1/WW2. It was part of a Burns poem and said " O' What a gift he'd gi us, If we could see ourselves as others see us".
Apologies to purists out there if its not correct! but it led me to research and find out who had penned the original.
Always remember Dan song lyrics are only poems set to music.
Any road up keep on doing what you are doing ,,,,,,, love it!
It’s a quote from the poem “To a Louse”. Written by Burns when (he said) he saw a louse or flea crawling on the bonnet of a fine young lady in church one Sunday. Like a lot of Burns’ poetry it uses metaphors about nature to reflect on the human condition, often in a wryly humorous or ironic way. In this case Burns thinks about his own reaction to the flea, having cursed and insulted it in the poem, and how maybe - like the flea - we’d all be better off if we were aware of how others saw us -
“Oh wad Some Power the giftie gie us,
Tae see oorsels as ithers see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion”
“If only God (“Some Power” avoids any accusation of blasphemy) would give us the gift (“the gift would give us”).
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would stop us doing stupid things and deluding ourselves!”
A loose translation and it doesn’t scan so well, but that’s what it means.
I love poetry, art & vegetables ☺️
Your videos are pure poetry to me.
I am going with Mazzy 9 it was cool
My favourite...
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.
I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy:
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Love that sweet remembrance stone! That’s a Scottish song on it. (Burns collected them.) “Drive the ewes to the hills. Drive them where the heather grows. Drive them where the stream flows, my beautiful dear.” And here is a lovely version of it sung by Dougie Maclean, to lend some atmosphere to your drives through Scottish countryside (and thanks for taking us with you!) m.ua-cam.com/video/hvWOkWEzizI/v-deo.html
The start of your video
Burns House
That's the one I am speakin of
That's the desk a certain poet sat at
...
Aye lang I sat in bafflin' blurr ...
Fun video u guys! 💕👍💕
I was wondering since your in Scotland are we going to see anything about William Wallace?
not in this county.
She's Purty ❤
Bubbly 🍾
And lovely 😍
A fine couple 💑
THE MOST CELEBRATED non biblical Poet ever to have tread the earth 🌎
I have heard of the burns trail in Dumfries 😉
Brig O' Doon ( House )
The park over there is Beautiful
Heard about walkin on the brig
Heard about the final resting place
Unfortunately Scotland's son's Mausoleum has been left to ruin failing maintenance and upkeep - Shocking to leave such heritage to ruin .
I have heard of St Giles and a building close by where Burns stayed .
I have heard of sitting at the desk in the inn where burns stayed and wrote
The Gristle may be worn though 🤭
Burns Cottage
And THE AULD ABBEY
And
No. 135
And there is ironically also a bachelor's club of sorts in that area ... 🤣
JAH BLESS ...
🙏🏻👍🏻👏🏻🔥🚶🏻
Passing Carlisle? buy some snuff(1.90£) at the tobacco shop and try. it would be soo funny.
good old robert bruce
BURNS
For auld lang syne...me third
I'm part Scottish and I'm embarrassed how bad they spelled the language. It's like ebonics of the Victorian era.
Ach Mon hoot Mon read a book Mon!
The only Burns i know is Richard Burns who was a famous British rally driver
Lol , you kept insisting on Robert Bruce , lol .
Looks more like a cornish pastie lover than a burns lover to me lol
Who's robert bruce?????
the heart ay`s the part ay, that makes us right =The heart is a part, it makes us right (says google translate)
Who was Robert burns
Ye ole Burns may be OK yet I need my Travel Trolls to right the day. :)
I have never heard of Robert Burns and have no clue why he was famous in his day....but I am willing to bet that George Burns told much funnier jokes.
BURNS!!! BURNS!!! its not Bruce...... its like confusing the queen with Emily Bronte!!!!!
She really is lovely 😍
So you were on The Burns Trail
Extremely scenic is the area where people park at the outset of the trail
The river with stone slopes of running water etc
BURNS IS NOT
" If it's your kind of thing "
HE IS THE GREAT SCOTS BARD ALONG WITH WILLIAM ST CLAIR OF ROSlLIN
BURNS IS THE MOST LOVED SON OF SCOTLAND
The Scottish and longside English translation is in many a print
But the ancient Scottish is BURNS POETRY and the dialect has an unparalleled ring to it
And as for you doing one or two sites on THE BURNS TRAIL
ARE YE MAD 🤣
THE BURNS TRAIL
IS LIKE
THE KNYSNA HEADS
OR THE GARDEN ROUTE IN south africa
MY ADAGE IS CLEAR
If you haven't been tae Scotland
Ye hae nae been tae anywhere
A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT
👍🏻🔥🚶🏻
How is it that you cannot emulate the Scottish dialect and writ utilized by Butns ?
Rather amusing that your tongue is all twisted up when you attempt the Scottish reading 🤣
But have you also noticed...Scottish people cannot speak in an English accent 🤣😅
@@TravelTrollsTV
Oh that's just too funny 😂
@@TravelTrollsTV
I'll do a reading 📚 in the new year IF JAH SPARES ME AND IF JAH IS WILLING
It has been thought by some that I can attempt a reading of one or the other Burns work
I can also do a rendition of
GIN I WAS GOD
by Charles Murray
When I was in Scotia Dear
I was tested by the best brothy accents around
And they were baffled that I could understand them
I was born with sound or tone on the ear
And I impersonated a few family friends , teachers and the likes for mony a year 😂
It is possible you may enjoy a Burns reading / rendition / recital from a bedraggled excuse of a poet like mesel'
...
👍🏻🔥🚶🏻