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Auld Reekie is a traditional nickname for Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. The nickname is from the Scots word reek meaning smoke (not, as is often assumed, smell).n 1893, the poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) wrote from his home in Samoa to fellow Scottish novelist S R Crockett, I shall never take that walk by the Fisher's Tryst and Glencorse; I shall never see Auld Reekie, I shall newer set my foot again upon the heather.
Beowulf Attacks the Dragon. During the Anglo-Saxon era, the figurative use of language was a common characteristic in many literary works. Kennings can be defined as two word Anglo-Saxon metaphors, used to symbolically identify creatures, objects, and phenomena, as a type of expressive imagery, which avoids naming the subject directly.