#a scots quair

[bookymcbookface]

“For she’d met with books, she went into them to a magic land far from Echt, out and away…”

‘Sunset Song’ by Lewis Grassic Gibbon (James Leslie Mitchell)

#reading #love books #bibliomania #Scots quair #lewis grassic gibbon #sunset song #quotes about books #quotes about reading

[scotianostra]

On February 2nd 1424 James I married Lady Jane Beaufort, daughter of the Earl of Somerset, in London, a true royal love affair.

Joan met her husband James I, King of Scots during his long captivity in England. After the probable murder of his elder son by an uncle, Robert III, King of Scots sent his only surviving son James to France for his safety. However, the ship 12-year-old James was sailing on was captured on March 22nd, 1406, by English pirates who delivered James to King Henry IV of England.

Robert III died a month later and James, who was nominally King of Scots, spent the first eighteen years of his reign in captivity. As Joan was related to the English royal family, she was often at court. Joan is said to be the inspiration for The Kingis Quair (“The King’s Book”), a poem supposedly written by James after he looked out a window and saw Joan in the garden.

And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne, Quhare as I sawe, walking under the tour, Full secretly new cummyn hir to pleyne, The fairest or the freschest yonge floure That ever I sawe, me thoght, before that houre, For quhich sodayn abate anon astert The blude of all my body to my hert.

Although there may have been an attraction between Joan and James, their marriage was also political as it was a condition for James’ release from captivity. Joan was well connected. She was a great-granddaughter of King Edward III, a great-niece of King Richard II, a niece of King Henry IV, and a first cousin of King Henry V.

Her paternal uncle Henry Beaufort was a Cardinal, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. The English considered a marriage to a Beaufort gave the Scots an alliance with the English instead of the French. Joan’s dowry of £6,000 was subtracted from James’ ransom of £40,000. The couple was married February 2nd, 1424, at St. Mary Overie Church, now known as Southwark Cathedral in Southwark, London, England.

James was released from his long captivity on March 28, 1424, and the couple traveled to Scotland. On May 21st, 1424, James and Joan were crowned King and Queen of Scots at Scone by Henry Wardlaw, Bishop of St. Andrews.

#scotland #scottish #history #royalty #the stewarts

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

PETER MULLAN IS RED JACOB MACKENZIE

Peter Mullan is a Scottish actor and filmmaker, he was born in Peterhead, a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UK. He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. He decided to dedicate himself to acting and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television.

His feature film work over the last several decades stretches across every genre, including roles in Riff-Raff (1991), Braveheart (1995), Trainspotting (1996), Miss Julie (1999), Young Adam (2003), Children of Men (2006), The Red Riding Trilogy (2009), War Horse (2011) The Vanishing, the Harry Potter film series (2010–11) and The Vanishing (2018).

Although his part in Braveheart was a small recurring role as one of the Scottish army foot soldiers, Mullan was to go on to enjoy a breakthrough shortly after Gibson’s classic film hit cinemas.

He followed Braveheart with his part as the drug dealer Mother Superior in Trainspotting, then found himself being fêted by Martin Scorsese when he won the best actor award at Cannes for Ken Loach’s film, ‘My Name Is Joe’ (1998), filmed in Argyll and Glasgow.

Trainspotting 1996 ‧ Crime/Thriller

Mullan has a vast body of work but is probably best known for his portrayal of Joe in the 1988 Ken Loach film ‘My Name is Joe’. For this work, he won the highly prized Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Mullan in My Name is Joe, directed by Ken Loach. Photograph: Allstar Picture Library

A few years later, in 2011, the Sundance Film Festival awarded Mullan a World Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performances for his role as Joseph in Paddy Considine’s Thriller/Drama ‧ ‘Tyrannosaur’ (2011) with Olivia Colman.

Since then, Mullan has gone on to work with directors like Steven Spielberg (War Horse 2011 ‧ War/Adventure ) alongside Jeremy Irvine and with Alfonso Cuarón popped up as a totalitarian crank in Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, goading the dispossessed into parading their “refugee face”. On Mullan suggestion, Cuarón swapped his character’s weapon of choice for something less obvious, but more threatening, and has become one of the most respected modern film and TV actors.

War Horse 2011 ‧ War/Adventure ‧ Film of the Year 2012

He has also made his name as a director, with acclaimed movies such as Neds, Orphans and The Magdalene Sisters.

His other film credits include ‘Hercules’ 2014 ‧ Action/Fantasy alongside Dwayne Johnson as General Sitalces, Commander of the Thracian army. Lord Cotys's second-in-command right-hand man portrayed by the late John Hurt.

Sunset Song, 2015 ‧ Romance/Drama Terence Davies’s adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons’s novel, stars Agyness Deyn as Chris, a Scottish farm worker who sees family trauma merge into global catastrophe as the First World War devastates her village.

Starring Peter Mullan, as Chris’s abusive dad. was filmed at various locations across Scotland in Aberdeenshire, including Fettercairn and the Glenmuick, Glen Tanar, Invercauld and Ballogie estates. Sunset Song is certainly a masterpiece of Scottish/ British literature and was voted Scotland's favourite book.

Scots Quair is actually three books, Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite, that tell the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman in the North East of Scotland, moving from the hard, rural life of her adolescence to adulthood and marriage. A Scots Quair is one of the most important works of Scottish literature.

Tommy's Honour 2016 ‧ Sport/Romance is based on the powerfully moving true story (and novel of the same name by Kevin Cook) of the challenging relationship between “Old” Tom and “Young” Tommy Morris, the dynamic father-son team who ushered in the modern game of golf.

Tommy's Honour 2016

Peter Mullan stared as Tom with Jack Lowden playing his son. The film was filmed in the Edinburgh city region including Peebles and Musselburgh golf course.

He also played Yaxley in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, parts 1 and 2. In TV, he’s played characters in ‘Westworld’, ‘Top Of The Lake’ and Netflix’s ‘Ozark’ as Jacob Snell. [Netflix]

In 2020 He was great in #Ozark portraying local crime lord Jacob Snell, The crime boss of Osage Beach until he died in season two of the Netflix hit.

Ozark 2017 ‧ Drama ‧ 4 seasons

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV Series 2022– ) - Peter Mullan played Durin III king of the dwarves and builder of the great halls of Moria.

Moria is introduced in Tolkien's novel The Hobbit and is a major scene of action in The Lord of the Rings. In the fictional world of J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth.

On the big and small screen, from sci-fi to action and comedy, there are plenty of Scots actors who have made a huge impact on the world of acting. Just take a look at the right place where you will find them in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#PeterMullan #Scotland #actor #filmmaker #Peterhead #RedJacobMackenzie #BOMB #Braveheart #Trainspotting #MartinScorsese #bestactor #CannesFilmFestival #KenLoach #MyNameIsJoe #Tyrannosaur #OliviaColman SundanceFilmFestival #ChildrenofMen #WorldDramaticSpecialJuryPriz #Hercules #DwayneJohnson #GeneralSitalces #book #SunsetSong #Scottishliterature #TerenceDavies #LewisGrassicGibbons #Tommy'sHonour #novel #Kevin Cook #TommyMorris #Musselburghgolf #Netflix #Ozark #JacobSnell #DurinIIIking #Moria #RingsofPower #Tolkien'snovel

Posted 5th April 2024

#Youtube

[oliverferrie]

Get to Know Tag

Thanks @captain-kraken for the tag!

three ships: (these are not necessarily positive OR romantic. apart from the first one, which is of course pure and very much not cursed)

Hooty and Duo (blessed, OTP, infallible)

Jesus and Judas (yes I grew up catholic, yes this did things to me)

any villain and myself (derogatory)

first ship: Hazel and Bigwig from Watership Down (I was a strange 8-year-old)

last song I listened to: Nautilus by Ring of Gyges

last movie I watched: Hardcore Henry (for reasons of see ship#3)

currently watching: Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (and playing the drinking game of How Many Prog Songs I Recognise, because I guess I have a deathwish or sth)

currently consuming: yorkshire tea

currently craving: additional yorkshire tea

working on: MOTH (second novel, also dark, much folklore, much trans struggle)

currently reading: A Scot's Quair (my sister sent this to me, surprised that neither of us have read this fundamental cornerstone of scottish lit)

I tag @withlovelunette, @revenancy, @sabinabardot and @meltingchaos (feel free to join in even if not tagged - and as usual, never any pressure)

#tag game #get to know #no pressure #cw: catholicism

[gorseflowers]

last, current, next read -- tagged by my man my myth my legend joel 💖@saintflint

last read:

ummm it's been a little while actually i think it was home fire by kamila shamsie and heaney's translation of antigone for me and my friends book club (home fire is an antigone retelling so the heaney translation was supplemental reading i would highly recommend both!!)

current read:

i started two books last month and havent made much progress with either. i think i might hold off on a scots quair by lewis grassic gibbon bc i feel like its gonna be a grim slog (it's about aberdeenshire -_-). the other book which i'm definitely gonna finish once i have some free time soon is hamlet in klingon

next read:

im wanting to start let the right one in by ajvide lindqvist once the weather turns a bit cause i feel like it's Not a summer read, also once the book club gets going we're gonna do moby dick so that'll be my second read!!

tagging @section-69 and anyone else who wants to do it (i'm too tired to remember whos already been tagged in this one but im very interested in what ppl are reading!)

#thanks for tagging me joel !! #mine

[book-with-stories]

Grassic Gibbon’s Scot’s Quair has been a quietly powerful bit of reading for me this past year. The endurance of the land as humanity moves and changes is a sobering image

#reading #lewis grassic gibbon #a scots quair #grey granite

[unhingedfairy]

For she'd met with books, she went into them to a magic land far from Echt, out and away and south.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

#words #lewis grassic gibbon #sunset song #a scots quair

[starkey]

Who wants to see my completely unachievable 2021 To Read list?

Fiction:

* James Joyce - Ulysses * Lewis Grassic Gibbon - A Scot's Quair * Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary * Leo Tolsoy - War and Peace * George Elliot - Middlemarch * Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex * Robert Louis Stephenson - Treasure Island (reread) * Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy * Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea * Becky Chambers - The Long Way To a Small Angry Planet * Seanan McGuire - Every Heart A Doorway * Maggie O'Farrel - Hamnet * Susanna Clarke - Piranesi * Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiaed

Poetry: * Pessoa - Book of Disquiet (reread) * Rilke - Essential Collection * Mary Oliver - Devotions * Auden - Essential Collection * Masefield - Sea Fever

Essays/Short Stories: * Chekhov - Essential Short Stories * Camus - Collected Essays * Virginia Woolf - Death of the Moth * Plato - Dialogues * Aurelias - Meditations

Plays: * Hamlet (reread) * King Lear (reread) * Othello * As You Like It (reread) * Henry IV * Sophocles - The Theban Plays * Virgil - Aeneid * Ovid - Metamorphoses

I’m gonna tag @fivie @mysunfreckle and @badassindistress (and @anyone else who wants to play...please tag me if you do! I like to spy on other people’s reading habits 👀)

#I'm gonna need to be Held To Account for this tbh #Thankfully I should be finishing Ulysses and Scots Quair pretty early on in January so it's not as horrendous as it looks #most of the plays are either re-reads or for a course so #🤞🤞 here's hoping that makes for an easier time #to read

[phoenixflames12]

7 and 20 for the writing meme?

From this writer’s ask meme- thank you so much @courfaeriedust!

7. What books have shaped the way that you think about writing the most?

Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite (A Scot’s Quair) by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Atonement by Ian McEwan and the His Dark Materials books have all been influential in shaping my writing process!

20. Where do you begin a WIP?

This differs from project to project. For my current WIP, a canon divergence post rescue fic, it began because I just couldn’t get the ‘what if?’ question out of my head. I want to see how they adapt to life back in England when they’ve been brought back from the very brink of human existence and now have to live with some pretty unspeakable stories and emotions and truths that haven’t made their way out into the open just yet.

Thank you so much!

Much love,

Phoenixflames12 xxx

#q + a #phoenixflames12 does memes #writing #fanfction #the askbox/dms are open!

[dietraumerei]

Weekly Writing and Reading Update

Writing

spaceStation: I finally started that science fiction AU I started to write for whumptober, yay! So far Crowley has accidentally offended Aziraphale, and everyone has the beginning stages of an awkward crush, it’s great. This might be the closest I ever get to a slow burn.

castleTerraChristmas: added a wee bit to this. I have to figure out what it’s about beyond the opening scene.

postRide: a sexy little Bike Girls story. I think this is done, but I want to edit it more, and see if I can give it more of an ending, rather than just stopping writing.

Past/Present Perfect: Completed!

Reading

I finished Anne Choma’s Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister. It was written to act as companion to the series, and, er, it shows. Choma is wonderful and is a legitimate historian, and I love that there’s a well-researched and -written biography to be made as part of the show. Extremely Reithian and all that. It’s...serviceable. It really only covers the period of time the first series does, which is neat! I liked being able to put that in context, and it was fun picking apart what was real and what was moved around and what was fiction. But it’s still a biography that at its heart covers only about 18 months. Which was...fine. There’s another biography of Anne Lister (which, er, my library doesn’t have which is why I started with Choma) and I’m hoping that’s a bit more extensive, and also puts her in context rather more. Not so much her lesbianism, but I’m fascinated by her Toryism, and her hunger to learn, almost an Enlightenment-like drive to know things. Also, frankly, I’d like to know a lot more about her other lovers beyond Mariana and Ann Walker. (Although I will note that Choma puts Walker’s mental illness in way clearer context than the show does.) And because I like to break my own heart, I want to know about the years Anne and Ann had together before Anne’s early death.

I just (as in a few minutes ago!) finished Grey Granite, the last of the Scots Quair trilogy. It’s a fucking brilliant series of books; subtly deep and interesting. It reminds me of Independent People in that it has these complicated characters and the setting is a character and also it is depressing as fuck. It’s extremely Scottish, then. I know I lack a lot of the historical context, but it’s still so good and strange. Grey Granite in particular is stranger and more mystical and mosre political and sadder than the other two books in the trilogy. (Also, not-incidentally, I love the way its written. There’s a lot of Scots, but it’s injected such that you can reckon the meanings from context, so it’s an easy read, but one that has its own voice. And I loved learned to read the Scots.) Chris is...someone I will think about for a very long time, I think. Maybe someone I’m becoming in a way.

#weekly update

[bookymcbookface]

Cloud Howe, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, read by Janet Alexander

#just finished #reading #books #cloud Howe #scots quair #lewis grassic gibbon #scotland #scottish literature #kailyard #audiobook

[scotianostra]

On 15th July 1445 Joan Beaufort, queen consort of King James I died.

Joan Beaufort was the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Sommerset (and grandson tof King Edward III of England) and Margaret Holland (daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent who's mother was also the mother of King Richard II of England). Joan was also half-niece of King Henry IV of England. Royal credentials aplenty, and the ideal candidate to put forward for a marriage to a future King, except unlike most Royal marriages of medieval era, Joan and James was a real bona fide love affair.

James met Joan while he was a prisoner in England and knew her from at least 1420, he wrote a poem, allegedly inspired as he saw Joan through the window while Joan was in the garden; the poem was called "The Kingis Quair".

Although James may have been taken with Joan, their wedding was at least partially politically motivated as their union would strengthen relations between Scotland and England, rather than allow a stronger alliance between the Scots and French.

On February 12, 1424, King James and Joan were wed at St. Mary Overie Church in Southwark, London. Joan returned to Scotland with her new husband and after 18 years being held at the English court, he had scores to settle, it is said that Joan, as Queen, often pleaded with the King on behalf of those to be executed.

The King and Queen had 8 children together, all but one lived into their adulthood, a remarkable achievement for the times.

On February 21, 1437, King James I was assassinated in Perth by Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl. Joan, who was with her husband at the time, had also been targetted for assassination but she managed to escape with injuries. Although Joan identified the Earl of Atholl as the assassin, and successfully encouraged her supporters to attack him, she had to give up power 3 months later due to the unpopularity of Joan being English, and the Scots did not want an Englishwoman as ruler. Subsequently the Earl of Douglas was appointed to power although Joan maintained control of her son, James II, the King of Scotland.

In late July, 1439, Joan married James Stewart, The Black Knight of Lorn who was an ally of the latest Earl of Douglas, and plotted with him to overthrow Alexander Livingston, governor of Stirling Castle, during the minority of James II.

Livingston arrested Joan in August 1439 and forced her to relinquish custody of the young king. In 1445, the conflict between the Douglas/Livingston faction and the queen's supporters resumed, and she was under siege at Dunbar Castle by the Earl of Douglas when she died on 15 July 1445. She was buried in the Carthusian Priory at Perth,called the Charterhouse, it has completely disappeared, there were articles in February 2017 about a search for the graves of the King and Queen, I have not heard if it is continuing.

#Scotland #anglo scottish #the stewarts #monarch #queen consort #history

[lochiels]

✧ James I, King of Scots was a peculiar figure. Albeit he was a prisoner of England for over fifteen years, he still received a good education and developed into a cultured individual. He became a poet at a young age having possessed an eagerness in ‘literary composition and writing’. His best known work is his love poem, The Kingis Quair. Like their father, a few of James’ daughters would become fond of poetry and literature as well.  

#historyedit #james i of scotland #james i #house of stewart #scottish history #history #15th century #medieval history #kings #fancast #our gifs #our creations

[blackkudos]

David Anthony Durham

David Anthony Durham (born March 23, 1969) is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy.

Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times leading up to the American Civil War. Pride of Carthage focused on Hannibal Barca of Ancient Carthage and his war with the Roman Republic. His novels have twice been New York Times Notable Books, won two awards from the American Library Association, and been translated into eight foreign languages. Gabriel's Story, Walk Through Darkness and Acacia: The War with the Mein are all in development as feature films. Durham's most recently released book, Acacia: The Sacred Band, concludes his epic fantasy Acacia Trilogy.

Born to parents of Caribbean ancestry, Durham has lived in Scotland for a number of years. He has worked as an Outward Bound Instructor, and as a whitewater raft guide and kayak instructor. After receiving an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1996, he taught at the University of Maryland and University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was the MacLean Distinguished Visiting Writer at The Colorado College and was an associate professor at Cal State University, Fresno and an adjunct professor at Hampshire College. He won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Fiction Award in 1992, the 2002 Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2006 Legacy Award for Fiction. In 2009, he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. He currently teaches for the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing.

Novels

Gabriel's Story (2001)

Walk Through Darkness (2002)

Pride of Carthage (2005)

Acacia Trilogy:

Acacia: The War with the Mein (2007)

Acacia: The Other Lands (2009)

Acacia: The Sacred Band (October 2011)

Articles and short stories

"Those About to Die" (story), (Lowball, edited by George R. R. Martin, Tor, Summer 2014).

"Snake Up Above", "Snake In The Hole" and "Snake On Fire" (stories), (Fort Freak, edited by George R. R. Martin, Tor, June 2011).

"An Act of Faith" (story), (It’s All Love, edited by Marita Golden, Doubleday, February 2009).

"Appreciation: The Green House, by Mario Vargas Llosa" (book recommendation, with commentary), (The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books, edited by J. Peder Zane, W. W. Norton, January 2007).

"Recommendation: A Scot’s Quair, by Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (book recommendation, with commentary), (Post Road, 2005).

"An Act of Faith" (story), (Intimacy: Erotic Stories of Love, Lust, and Marriage by Black Men, edited by Robert Fleming, Plume, February 2004).

"The Boy-Fish" (story), (Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing, edited by Marita Golden and E. Lynn Harris, Harlem Moon Press, October 2002).

"The She-Ape and the Occasional Idealist" (short story), (QWF (UK), June/July 2000).

"One Room Like a Cave" (story), (Staple: New Writing (UK), 1998).

"The Boy-Fish" (story), (Catalyst, Spring 1992).

"All the Girls Love Michael Stein" (story), (Unfettered, 2013)

#03/23

[book-with-stories]

“Grey Granite”- Lewis Grassic Gibbon

#reading #quote #classic #a scots quair #grey granite #lewis grassic gibbon #scots lit #scottish literature #the american dream

[the-foxes-fangs]

10 Favorite Characters

Thanks to @forallyourikemensengokuneeds for tagging me 💕

1. Mitsuhide (and absolutely nobody was surprised)

2. Chris from 'A Scots Quair' by Lewis Grassic Gibbon

3. Anders from Dragon Age

4. Neko from GeGeGe no Kitaro

5. Katsura from Gintama

6. Phillip Marlowe

7. Molly Grue from The Last Unicorn

8. Zhu Yuxian from Love Nikki

9. Dorian from Dragon Age

10. Shingen

Tagging @otomediary, @wingedtreecookiesludge and @you-mass-effect-my-dragon-age as well as anyone else who wants to participate 💕

#about me #character meme