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- Broun, Dauvit.
- Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 1999.
- Description
- Book — x, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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- Part 1 The Scottish origin-legend in John of Fordun's "Chronica Gentis Scottorum" - prospects and problems: the quest for the sources of Fordun's account of Scottish origins-- the need for a new edition of Fordun's "Chronica"-- manuscripts of Fordun's "Chronica"-- editorial problems and principles.
- Part 2 The Scottish origin-legend in John of Fordun's "Chronica Gentis Scottorum - edited extracts.
- Part 3 The Scottish origin-legend in John of Fordun's "Chronica Gentis Scottorum" - analysis: the Scottish origin-legend in Fordun's "Chronica" as far as the taking of Ireland-- the settlement of "Scoti" in Scotland-- Fordun's source for his account of Scottish origins-- reconstructing the "Eber" and "Partholon" accounts as far as the settlement of "Scoti" in Ireland-- the vision of Ireland in the "Partholon" account.
- Part 4 Accounts of Scottish origins in Thomas Grey's "Scalacronica" and Andrew of Wyntoun's "Original Chronicle": the Scottish chronicle inserted into Grey's "Scalacronica"-- Grey's account of Scottish origins and Fordun's passages attributed to "Legenda Sancti Brandani"-- Grey's account of Scottish origins and Fordun's passages attributed to "Legenda Sancti Congalli"-- an origin-legend plus king-list text written 1292x1304-- Wyntoun's accounts of Scottish origins-- other witnesses of the origin-legend plus king-list text.
- Part 5 Accounts of Scottish origins 1214-1306: the role of Ireland in lost accounts of Scottish origins attested by Fordun, Grey and Wyntoun-- the date and provenance of lost accounts of Scottish origins attested by Fordun, Grey and Wyntoun-- the "Eber" account and its source-- the vision of Ireland in the "Eber" account-- accounts of Scottish origins in the first war of independence-- the account of Scottish origins in "Liber Extrauagans" attached to Bower's "Scotichronicon"-- summary of accounts of Scottish origins, 1214-1306, and their identification of the Scottish kingship with Ireland.
- Part 6 Scottish king-lists 1093-1214: Marjorie Anderson's X-group of regnal lists-- Anderson's Y-group of regnal lists beginning with Cinaed mac Alpin-- Anderson's Y-group regnal lists which include kings of Dal Riata-- the addition of the Dal Riata regnal list (1165x1214)-- Anderson's discussion of Scottish regnal lists 1094-1214.
- Part 7 Royal history and the legitimation of the Scottish kingship c950-1249: Scottish regnal lists c950-1093-- Cinaed mac Alpin as founder of the Scottish kingship-- 12th- and 13th-century texts of the genealogy of the kings of Scots-- the significance of the royal genealogy.
- Part 8 From Irish identity to a Scottish nation.
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