Note 8 — THE VISION OF HUNGUS.
Reading edition
The stone in which the English standard was fixed at Bannockburn was called the Bore Stane; but this appears in nowise applicable to the present subject, except by name. The epithet Boar was often applied to those who carried the emblem of this animal on their shield; hence, in the poem on the Battle of Floddenfield, Richard III. is distinguished as “the raging Boar, who, at Bosworth, with all his host, was over-thrown.” We must conclude, that the person who fell here either went by this uncouth epithet, or had a boar for his device.