In the sad but slightly Monty-Pythonishly surreal ballad of Sir Patrick Spens, Dunfermline is where, in the first verse, the king sits "drinking the blude-red wine". Dundee, a fair distance to the north-east, also has verse-related associations; but of a different kind: as the home of William McGonagall, notorious as one of the most dreadful "poets" ever, probably in any language -- his material being often to do with his native city.