Auldstane eld
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- Old Stone Age: the Neolithic Era
- stane: (Old English) stone (dative case)
- auld: (Scots) old
- eld: old age; antiquity
- Auld Lang Syne: a traditional Scots song sung at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day; the title literally translates as "old long since" → auldstane eld in the same line