Brig o Dee (brig)

The Brig o Dee is a road bridge ower the River Dee in Aiberdeen, Scotland. It was buildit in 1527. It wis whaur the auld drover's gate Causey Mounth crossit the Dee. There wis a battle o Brig o Dee in 1639, atween Royalists and the Covenanters, wha wir led bi William Keith, Great Marischal, an is a historic site. A poem wis screived aboot the battle: Muskies mother [a large cannon] has made a vow That she will take her venter [dare to go], And thunder throughe (the) brige of Dee Led by a Covenanter. The Covenanters that ye see Come marching alongest the grein [open grassy ground], Wer not for feare of God they say, They wold plounder Aberdeine. References