Twa o the auldest bardries in the English tung, Andreas (Andro) and þa Wyrda Þara Apostola (The Weirds o the Apostles) is here owersetten, for the first time, intil Scots verse. Thir poems, or nou scarcelins kent tae onybody bar scholars o Anglo-Saxon leiteratuir, kythes nou in the mither tung and in verse akin tae the auncient Germanic meter. Ilka frein o the Lawland tung will walcome this mauchty eikin till its letter-huird.
Corpus Textuum Scoticorum is a series pittin furth edeitions o leid and leiteratuir o especial interest tae Scotland. The series is maistlins, but no aa and haill, devote tae volumes wi a beirin on the Scots and Scottish Gaelic leids.
