Any of several related languages of the Celts in Ireland and Scotland.
1They were Hakon's English chaplains, and they could not understand his Erse.
2Has this language, older than Erse, older than Sanscrit, ever got translated?
3I asked one of the guides, who questioned her in Erse.
4She was dressed in tartan, and could speak nothing but Erse.
5He had by this time acquired a good deal of the Erse language.
6Yet all of our company who understood Erse, seemed charmed with the original.
7One of our guides asked her, in Erse, if a shilling was enough.
8To Sir David Dalrymple, April 4.-Erse Poetry; Gray's queries concerning Macpherson.
9She said, she taught Sir James M'Donald Erse, and would teach me soon.
10And a moment of hesitation and instant of animal Reading these sweet Erse words.
11I should say, the Erse are a very fine race.
12There is I think a kirk, in which only the Erse language is used.
13The men of Whole Erse lived in a permanent war.
14They talked in their own language with fluent vivacity, and sang many Erse songs.
15Aye, heathen Lochlann and Christian Scot, and homely Erse yonder.
16Upon being told there was not, he sung an Erse song with much vivacity.