Scotland's First 'National' History? Fordun's Principal Source Revisited.
Fordun's principal source ('proto-Fordun') has been dated to 1285 based on assumptions that are challenged in this article. The material following Fordun's history in key manuscripts is investigated afresh as a survival of part of proto-Fordun. Proto-Fordun emerges as a seven-book work whose narrati...
| Published in: | Scottish Historical Review Vol. 103; no. 3; pp. 392 - 436 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Dec2024
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