For a general introduction to the literary and cultural background of the present translation, and to the NorthEast Scots dialect itself, see the introduction to my translation of Carrolls previous book, Ailces Anters in Ferlielann. As there, I have used a conservative form of the dialect, checking the words and pronunciations against classic literary texts (and this time also against the earlier translation, to ensure consistency). As there too, I have endeavoured to find a specific equivalent for every joke, pun, allusion and other trick of style in the original. The metrical and rhyme patterns of the poems are maintained as always in poetic translations of any kind, this procedure necessitates some departures from the original wording and in one instance, namely the sequence of thirteen rhymes on "toe" in the closing section of the White Knights song, I have assumed the licence to treat Carrolls lines with complete freedom.Puns and other forms of wordplay appear at corresponding places to those in the source book this too necessarily entails departure from the original wording, as in the Midgies (Carrolls Gnats) "Somethin about a haverin aiver, ye ken" to replace "Something about horse and hoarse, you know". Culturebound allusions are replaced with ones more readily associated with the expected new readership (his AngloSaxon messengers with their AngloSaxon attitudes becoming Pictish messengers with Pictish poseitions) and a clearlydifferentiated speechform, namely the...

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