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Literature has always been an important component of Scottish arts, and even today, Scotland still contributes much to world literature.

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Scots is an Anglic variety spoken in Scotland, where it is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic spoken by some in the Highlands.

Scottish English and the English of England developed from the same medieval mixture of Anglo-Saxon and Norman French.

There may be more medieval Scottish Gaelic literature than is often thought.

Scotland has long been known internationally as a country of romance.

Novelist and presenter of the Writing Scotland television series, Carl MacDougall, introduces an online learning journey on fantasies and the other worlds of Scottish literature.

New writers of the postwar years displayed a new outwardness.