Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Important and timely... fine work of scholarship... This outstanding book has brought our understanding of the medieval Gaelic world onto a new level.

• 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.