Andrew of Wyntoun

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Andrew Wyntown

Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1425), was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and later, a canon of St. Andrews.

Wyntoun is most famous for his completion of an eight-syllabled metre entitled, Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland, which contains an early mention of Robin Hood; it is also cited by the Oxford English Dictionary as the earliest work in English to use the word "Catholic": "He was a constant Catholic;/All Lollard he hated and heretic." Wyntoun wrote the Chronicle at the request of his patron, Sir John of Wemyss, whose representative, Mr. Erskine Wemyss of Wemyss Castle, Fife, possessed the oldest extant manuscript of the work. The subject of the Chronicle is the history of Scotland from the mythical period to the death of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany in 1420.…more

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	Scotland from the Earliest Times to 1603 by William Croft Dickinson 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1961 add/edit characters	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
	Scottish Literature: An Introduction by Alan Riach 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2022 add/edit characters	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
	Early Scottish Poetry: Thomas the Rhymer, John Barbour, Androw of Wyntoun, Henry the minstrel by George Eyre-Todd (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1891 add/edit characters	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 Trojan Legend in Medieval Scottish Literature by Emily Wingfield it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014 add/edit characters	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
	Robert Henryson by Matthew P. McDiarmid 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1983 add/edit characters	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
	Recovering Scottish History: John Hill Burton and Scottish National Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Craig Beveridge really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022 add/edit characters	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
	Fresche Fontanis: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland by Janet Hadley Williams (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 add/edit characters	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
	Rhetoric, Royalty and Reality: Essays on the Literary Culture of Medieval and Modern Scotland by Alasdair A. MacDonald really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2005 add/edit characters	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
	Scottish Pageant: 55 BC - AD 1513 by Agnes Mure Mackenzie (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1946 add/edit characters	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
	A Land Won from Waste: Scotland AD 400 - 1400 by Richard Oram really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2025 add/edit characters	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