E: 29/09 NOON Win £250 (Cashhunt - Help Needed)

reniannen

I got somewhere different, but Don Juan does seem to make sense too (other than not being Scottish).

I also started with the Heart of Midlothian -
It marks the site of the old Edinburgh Tolbooth - to me this fits 'that which was there' better, rather than just the whole Edinburgh old town. It was demolished 1817.
1817 - Scott published Rob Roy? Rob Roy was the son of Donald?
Rob Roy was born in Glengyle at the head of Loch Katrine and at somepoint lived in Glen Shira, but I've got nowhere with poems with any of those locations. There's 2 main ones about Loch katrine but none with 16 lines, verses, cantos etc

Since it's a daily entry I'm tempted to put The Cairngorms as my answer for now. I was trying to think of things that fit and that's what I came up with. I had a look at places it's North West of and spotted Tomintoul - there is a craft studio here where they hand make wooden sculptures and furniture and things (I have a wee carved highlander from there which is how I know) so I'm wondering if this statue might have been made there. Complete long shot, and I'm sure I'll be proved wrong.

wingobins

I'm rubish at these but it says something of...'a ness' could this be the Loch Ness? Also..wasn't Don Juan a musketeer? (wasn't there 3 of them?) I'm probably going off course here though! (Don't laugh...told you I was rubish! )

mooomin

wingobins wrote: »

I'm rubish at these but it says something of...'a ness' could this be the Loch Ness? Also..wasn't Don Juan a musketeer? (wasn't there 3 of them?) I'm probably going off course here though! (Don't laugh...told you I was rubish! )

Not a musketeer, although Don Juan was played in a film by Johnny Depp which is worth watching for the [strike]perv-factor[/strike] artistic merit. Musketeers were Porthos, Athos and Aramis (I think)

My Google-fu has deserted me. I've been looking at Loch Ness for soooo long it's breaking my brain. Have found some awesome Family Ness sites though

Could it be Ness in Lewis? There is a very old church there and Lewis is waaaayyyy north-west.

reniannen

I thought that it was going to be whatever 'word three' is of this poem joined to the word ness to get a placename - if that makes sense, so not Ness on it's own. If word three of the poem is loch then Loch Ness would be right. There are other ness placenames, but I can't think of any others with a noun before them which might be a word in a poem?

eta - actually aness is written as one word so it would be word 3 with aness added to the end?

It's too late for this lol

why o why does google not have a wildcard search?

eta (again) - I could hit myself just said 'aness' out loud = an 's' so a plural of this word and not ness at all??!!

wingobins

Sorry...don't know why I thought he was a Musketeer! :rotfl:
Ness...could it be something like..Barrow infurness? Or Inverness?

cistolic

I could be totally wrong but somehow reached this. I took three as a 3 letter word?

Ayr Racecourse & the Scottish Grand National, Ayr Golf, Ayr Hotels, Ayr ... just a 5 minute walk away from Burns Cottage just off Monument Road in Ayr.

Sorry lost link where I found it. The letters fit ??? Hope I'm Helping

reniannen

I think you've got it cistolic! Little known fact - Burns shortened his surname from Burness. I think 'word three' of the poem was probably burn and if you add a 'ness' or 'an s' to it you get Burness or Burns, so it works on 2 levels. Then you get to Burns' cottage in Alloway, heading north west of which you're 'on course' for Ayr Racecourse. Still filling in gaps though.

thingamaBob

Rob Roy's home was at Inversnaid (it was his nephew Gregor who was the clan chieftan and lived at Glengyle).
I found this poem called Inversnaid. Note it has 16 lines and the third word is burn.

Inversnaid
This darksome burn, horseback brown,
His rollrock highroad roaring down,
In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam
Flutes and low to the lake falls home.

A windpuff-bonnet of f!wn-fr!th
Turns and twindles over the broth
Of a pool so pitchblack, f!ll-fr!wning,
It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning.

Degged with dew, dappled with dew
Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through,
Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern,
And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

thingamaBob

In The Mauchline room in Burns Cottage is a plaster miniature of a statue by George Lawson, the original of which now stands in Burns Statue Square in the centre of Ayr. This is not far from the racecourse although it looks to me like the racecourse is to the North East rather than the North West although everything else seems to suggest Ayr Racecourse as the answer.

reniannen

thingamaBob wrote: »

In The Mauchline room in Burns Cottage is a plaster miniature of a statue by George Lawson, the original of which now stands in Burns Statue Square in the centre of Ayr. This is not far from the racecourse although it looks to me like the racecourse is to the North East rather than the North West although everything else seems to suggest Ayr Racecourse as the answer.

The racecourse is definitely North East of the square but I can't see anything else that fits either

Well done finding the poem - I tried every other location except Inversnaid :rolleyes: :mad:
btw not sure if you'll know, but burn is the Scottish word for stream - the poem makes a bit more sense if you know that