On my bookshelf and enthusiastically recommended; appropriate and freely comprehensible even for an Englishman...
While we’re on the subject of Scottish origins, there is a section of the Declaration of Abroath from 1320 AD that is interesting, since they give a brief description of their own understanding of their origins, at that time:
“Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken a single foreigner.”
I’ve got it, thanks
My copy is 15 years old and dog-eared from re-reading.
CC
Yes, I read the book years ago.
can you imagine an alcoholic who is an Irish-Scot ?
he wants a drink but doesn’t want to pay for it.