“One of Scotland’s oldest surviving books which was produced by Pictish-era monks and contains the earliest examples of written Gaelic is coming home .”
— The Scotsman / Alison Campsie
“Dr Michelle MacLeod, senior lecturer in Gaelic at the University of Aberdeen, earlier said: “The Book of Deer is a tiny book but it has left a huge legacy for us, not only in the north-east but for the whole of Scotland. We had to wait another 200-300 years after the Book of Deer to find any more evidence of written Scottish Gaelic.”
