John Barbour
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Excerpt from John Barbour: Poet and Translator I come from Scotland to plead against eminent Germans, Englishmen, and Scotsmen for a Scottish poet, and to maintain his claim to translations some of which were directly part of the educative processes fitting him to produce his great original historical chanson de geste. A national heirloom was added to the treasury of Scotland when John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, completed under Robert II, the first of the Stewart kings, his poem of The Bruce. Editors and others have somehow failed to notice that the author´s note about the "tyme of the compyling of this buk," giving four different methods of computation of the date and expressly naming 1375 (Br., xiii, 694), is distinct in assigning a time after February 22, 1375-6, when five years of Robert II´s reign had passed, and before March 24, 1375-6, when the year 1375 as then counted came to a close. The story of Bruce is told with not a few citations of secular literary sources in prose and verse, including (1) Guido de Columpna´s Destruction of Troy (Br., i, 395, 521), referred to under the familiar names of Dares and Dictys; (2) the romance of Alexander (Br., i, 533; iii, 73; x, 706); (3) the Brut (Br., i, 549); (4) the story of Thebes (Br., ii, 528; vi, 183); and (5) the romance of Ferumbras (Br., iii, 436). Question is possible in each, of these cases regarding the precise shape in which the sources were drawn upon. The relation to the Alexander legend and the tale of Troy, two themes found so inspiring by the Middle Ages, will be discussed, beginning with the latter, while the former stands over till intermediate topics pass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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