Note 61 — Chapter I · SUMMARY.

John Barbour, Archdeacon of Aberdeen, wrote the great actions of Robert Bruce in the time of his son David, II. Many noble passages occur in his poems; and it is well worth encountering his rugged orthography to read them. He was just before the era of Chaucer, to whom he is perhaps superior as an original author. It was Barbour who wrote that grand apostrophe often quoted—“Oh Freedom is a noble thing!”