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John Barbour

Born

Scotland

Died

February 25, 1395

Genre

Poetry In Scots

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John Barbour (c.1320 - 1395) was a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots.

His principal surviving work is the historical verse romance, The Brus (The Bruce), and his reputation from this poem is such that other long works in Scots which survive from the period are sometimes thought to be by him. He is known to have written a number of other works, but other titles definitely ascribed to his authorship, such as The Stewartis Oryginalle (Genealogy of the Stewarts) and The Brut (Brutus), are now lost.

Barbour was latterly Archdeacon of the Kirk of St Machar in Aberdeen. He also studied in Oxford and Paris. Although he was a man of the church, his surviving writing is strongly secular in both tone and themes. H ...more

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	The Bruce 4.08 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1375 — 157 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bruce: or The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Part 2 by John Barbour, Walter W. Skeat (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1874 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bruce: or The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Part 1 by John Barbour, Walter W. Skeat (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1375 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bruce of Bannockburn: Being a Translation of the Greater Portion of Barbour’s "Bruce” really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bruce: or The Book of the Most Excellent and Noble Prince, Robert de Broyss, King of Scots. Part 4 by John Barbour, Walter W. Skeat (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1889	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barbour's Bruce: A! Fredome is a Noble Thing! Volume I by John Barbour, Matthew P. McDiarmid (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1985	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selections from Barbour's Bruce: Books I-X (Early English Text Society Extra Series) by John Barbour, Walter W. Skeat (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bruce: Volumes II & III (Early English Text Society Extra Series) (VOLUME 21) by John Barbour, Walter W. Skeat (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1972	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barbour's Des Schottischen Nationaldichters Legendensammlung: Nebst Den Fragmenten Seines Trojanerkrieges, Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Legends Of The Saints: In The Scottish Dialect Of The Fourteenth Century, Volume 15 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Stories to read are delitabill (delightful)
Suppose that they be nocht but fable (fiction)
Then should stories that suthfast were (truthful)
- And they were said in good manner -
Have double pleasure in hearing.
The first pleasance is the carping (reading aloud)
And the tothir the suthfastness
That shows the thing richt as it was;”
― John Barbour

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“The instant is not in time -- time is in the instant.”
― John Barbour

tags: chronology, memory

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“If time is a line, it is a special one.”
― John Barbour

tags: relativity-space

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