Auldstane eld

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  • Old Stone Age: the Palaeolithic Era → Vico's first age, the divine or theocratic age
  • stane: (Old English) stone (dative case)
  • auld: (Scots) old
  • eld: (archaic) old age; antiquity
  • stone ... elm: symbols that represent Shaun and Shem respectively throughout FW
  • 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" → lang time agone in the same line