Note 246 — Chapter IV · ETHNOLOGY OF BRITAIN.
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Laing’s Poems of William Dunbar. Chalmers’s Poems of Sir David Lyndesay, vol. ii. p. 350. Mr. Burton, in his chapter on ‘The Early Races’ (Hist. vol. i. p. 206), makes the assertion that the Gaelic of Scotland ‘was ever called by the Teutonic Scots, Irish, Ersch, or Erse.’ In this he is mistaken. It was not so called before the fifteenth century, but invariably ‘Lingua Scotica,’ or Scotch.