"Crofter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the Sub-Ossianic period brings us to another epoch in the history of Gaelic poetry. The Bard was now the chieftain's retainer, at home a crofter and pensioner,[11] abroad a follower of the camp. We find him cheering the rowers of the galley, with his birlinn chant, and stirring on the fight with his prosnuchadh catha, or battle-song. At the noted ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... explained, "that is the point. Once get your name in the papers at the end of a two-column letter and you are the friend of all the world—it gives one an entree to the castle of the Duke and the cottage of the crofter." ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 • Various
... the future was to be Lasse and Pelle's home, was one of the largest farms on the island. But old people knew that when their grandparents were children, it had been a crofter's cottage where only two horses were kept, and belonged to a certain Vevest Koller, a grandson of Jens Kofod, the liberator of Bornholm. During his time, the cottage became a farm. He worked himself to death on it, and grudged food both for himself and the others. And these ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo |
