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| Barbour, John |
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(bär´b r) (KEY) , c.1316?–1395, Scottish poet. He was archdeacon of Aberdeen from 1355 until his death. His romance, The Bruce (1375), celebrating Scotland’s emancipation from England, recounts the heroic deeds of Robert I and Sir James Douglas. The poem was meant to be read as history and shows remarkable accuracy. Barbour’s authorship of a fragmentary Troy-Book and the Buik of Alexander is disputed. |
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