Scotland
In 2006, the Scottish Parliament
passed the St. Andrew's Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007,
designating the day to be an official bank holiday.
The National Dances
The Flora McDonald's Fancy
The Sailor's Hornpipe
The Irish Jig
Scottish Lilt
Competition Dancing
Food & Drink
· Although the Deep fried Mars bar is jokingly said
to exemplify the modern Scottish diet, Scottish
cuisine offers such traditional dishes as haggis,
Buccleuch Scotch beef, the Arbroath Smokie,
salmon, venison, cranachan, bannock,
Scotch Broth and shortbread.
· Scotland is also known for its Scotch whisky and
its distilleries, as well as for Scottish beer.
Earliest literature from within modern
Scotland
The people of northern Britain spoke forms of Celtic
languages. Much of the earliest Welsh literature was
actually composed in or near the country we now call
Scotland, as Brythonic speech (the ancestor of