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" PicU were undone, cut off, mother's son, For not teaching the Scots to brew heather ale. "
Landwirthschaftliches Conversations-Lexikon für Praktiker und Laien ... - Page 460
by Alexander von Lengerke - 1837
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 41

English literature - 1829 - 586 pages
...excellent old ballatl' ^MMHi9nn»fl • MI- - .«•••..« lr«« ' The Picts were undone, cut off mother's son, For not teaching the Scots to brew heather ale.'* >• •• •'•»•«(Thus all ancient and modern authorities, historical or traditiopary, coincide...
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Landwirthschaftliche Annalen des Mecklenburgischen ..., Volume 17, Part 1

1831 - 412 pages
...bereitet wirb. @o warb er benn аиф getôbtet. Sitie n tie 5M(abe fagt: The Picts were undone, cut off Mother's Son For not teaching the Scots to brew heather -Ale. £>er «Píete warb »ernic&t't, getôbt't ber ,9Kutter €r wollt' ben <5фо«' mà)t leljr'tt, baá...
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Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye

Charles Richard Weld - Highlands (Scotland) - 1860 - 468 pages
...satisfaction of carrying it with him to his grave. And the ballad tells us : " The Plots were undone, cut off, mother's son, For not teaching the Scots to brew heather ale." I have read, however, that although the art of brewing Pictish heather ale is lost, old grouse shooters...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1863 - 588 pages
...therefore assumed to be a mythic narrative: and we are not to believe that — " The PicU were undone, cut off, mother's son, For not teaching the Scots to brew heather ale." (See also Olencreggan : or a Highland Home in Cantire, i. 363.) CUTHBEBT BEDE. LIEUT.-GENERAL JOHN...
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The Heather in Lore, Lyric and Lay: By Alexander Wallace...

Alexander Wallace - Ericaceae - 1903 - 298 pages
...is therefore assumed to be a mythic narrative and we are not to believe 'The Picts were undone, cut off mother's son, For not teaching the Scots to brew Heather ale.' " Whether or not the secret of the Picts was lost, the belief that such a secret at one time existed...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 41

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1829 - 584 pages
...death accordingly; and thus, in the words of an excellent old ballad, ' The Picts were undone, cut off mother's son, " For not teaching the Scots to brew heather ale.'* Thus all ancient and modern authorities, historical or traditionary, coincide more or less in the fact...
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