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en-wikipedia-org-7660		Scottish Gaelic literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	5323	613	68	In the West were the Gaelic-speaking people of Dál Riata, who had close links with Ireland, from where they brought with them the name Scots.[1] Very few works of Gaelic poetry survive from the early Medieval period, and most of these are in Irish manuscripts.[2] There are religious works that can be identified as Scottish, including the Elegy for St Columba by Dallan Forgaill (c. As a result, Gaelic, once dominant north of the Tay, began a steady decline.[8] Lowland writers began to treat Gaelic as a second class, rustic and even amusing language, helping to frame attitudes towards the highlands and to create a cultural gulf with the lowlands.[8] The major corpus of Medieval Scottish Gaelic poetry, The Book of the Dean of Lismore was compiled by the brothers James and Donald MacGregor in the early decades of the sixteenth century.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7660.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7660.txt