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What is the historical tradition and literary imagination of Scotland?
William wordsworth, a famous English poet, visited Scotland in 1805, and wrote a famous poem "The Lonely Wheat Cutter" in the highlands of Scotland. In his poems, he described the highland girls he met. Note that she is singing in Gaelic; It implies that she is singing about distant history and ancient wars. For the English in Wordsworth's time, Scotland is a remote and backward area, but it is also an undeveloped original ecological area. British intellectuals, including Dr. Johnson, Wordsworth and Keats. , have been to Scotland, or go there to recuperate and recover. For them, Scotland is full of exotic feelings, not only the mountains and rivers are more magnificent and rugged, but also people's lives and customs are different: they speak different languages and have different historical and cultural traditions.

If you turn to history, you will find that Scotland and England are different peoples: Scotland is descended from Celtic and English is descended from Anglo-Saxon. Celts are the earliest people who settled in England, equivalent to the aborigines in England. Around 450 AD, after the Roman Empire collapsed and the Romans left Britain, Anglo-Saxons came to Britain from the European continent and drove the Celts to the north and west of the British island. The film King Arthur (2004) reflects this history. England and Scotland have often had wars and bloody conflicts in history. Robert Burns, a Scottish national poet familiar to readers in China, once wrote a poem "The Scotsman", praising/kloc-william wallace, a Scottish national hero in the 4th century. In the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297, Wallace defeated the British army and shook the rule of King Edward I of England of England in Scotland.