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For those who don’t know what the “dee” referred to in the poem is, it’s a river in northeast Scotland near Aberdeen. [1] 1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ri
by S_A_P 7y ago
For those who don’t know what the “dee” referred to in the poem is, it’s a river in northeast Scotland near Aberdeen. [1]
1- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Dee,_Aberdeenshire
- stevekemp 7y agoFor bonus-points the prefix "Aber" on Scottish place-names largely means "at the mouth of a river". So you have "At the mouth of the river"-Deen. (Though of course the real rivers are the Dee and the Don, so it isn't as simple as it should be!)