Book description
This is a full translation of the Scottish epic "The Bruce". The poem is regarded as one of the key sources for the life of Robert the Bruce. It contains detailed notes explaining and simplifying the narrative, as well as contemporary accounts. The book includes "The Declaration of Arbroath".
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This was my surprise hit read of the year. I picked it up with trepidation as research for a book I'm writing, and quickly fell in love with the pace and the drama. It's written in middle Scots (which is much easier to understand when read aloud; the phonetics suddenly make the words pop out) and has the real feel of a story designed to capture an aural audience's attention. Barbour, writing around 1375, was the OG cinematographer - his battle descriptions are incredibly vivid. But he also manages the pace of the story so brilliantly, switching scene when one…
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