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A makar ( /ˈmækər/ ⓘ) is a term from Scottish literature for a poet or bard, often thought of as a royal court poet.
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The extracted context around Makar shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Makar → Aberdeen, Alan Spence, Christine De Luca, City, Dundee, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Makar, Glasgow, Hannah Lavery, Herbert, Laura Fyfe, Liz Lochhead, Magi Gibson, Michael Pedersen, Ron Butlin, Scotland's, Sheena Blackhall, Since, Stewart Conn, Stirling Another extracted example is Makar → Apart, Barbour, Blind Hary, Chaucer, Dante, England, English, Europe, James, Kingis Quair, London, Makars, Petrarch, Richard Holland, Scotland, Scots, Scottish, Walter Kennedy, Wyntoun. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 85 structured relationships around Makar. Examples in this analysis include Makar → is a → name of a fictional character in the video game The Legend of Zelda and Barbour → instance of → Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Makar | is a | name of a fictional character in the video game The Legend of Zelda | 0.90 | text |
| Barbour | instance of | Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers | 0.80 | text |
| Wyntoun who wrote romance | instance of | Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers | 0.80 | text |
| chronicle verse in octosyllabic couplets | instance of | Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers | 0.80 | text |
| it also perhaps marked something of a departure from the medieval alliterative or troubador traditions | instance of | Their work is usually distinguished from the work of earlier Scottish writers | 0.80 | text |
| Richard Holland | instance of | writing by makars | 0.80 | text |
| Blind Hary | instance of | writing by makars | 0.80 | text |
| Walter Kennedy also survives along with evidence that suggests the existence of a substantial body of lost work | instance of | writing by makars | 0.80 | text |
| William Drummond might loosely be seen as forming a continuation into the seventeenth century.The Makars have often been referred to by literary critics as Scots Chaucerians | instance of | but figures | 0.80 | text |
| Makar | related to Etymology | Middle Scots | 0.60 | section |
| Makar | related to Etymology | Middle English | 0.60 | section |
| Makar | related to Etymology | Ancient Greek | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Makar bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Name, Edinburgh and Poet. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Makar, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Makar with The Makars in history. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Makar to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Applications, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Makar · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout
