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'Scots' is a dialect, rather than a language, because it's based upon Northumbrian Old English carried upwards, rather than upon any separate language originating in Scotland. So Scots is on the same level as, say, true Geordie or Scouse dialect, as a form of English, whereas Scots Gaelic, or Cornish, or Northumbrian Gaelic, are of course all separate languages and anything written in them would not count as 'English literature', despite being written in the British isles.

Yeah, I know. I had a huge argument with Simon because I wanted to include, in an essay, some 9th century Northumbrian poems, but he said I couldn't because they were in Northumbrian Gaelic ('wealisc', or Welsh) and not Northumbrian Old English.