Andrew of Wyntoun

Andrew of Wyntoun

Andrew Wyntoun, known as Andrew of Wyntoun (c. 1350 – c. 1423) was a Scottish poet, a canon and prior of Loch Leven on St Serf's Inch and later, a canon of St. Andrews.

Andrew 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"). 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 accession of James I in 1406.

The eight original manuscripts of the "Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland" still subsist today and are preserved within various facilities throughout the United Kingdom. Three out of the eight original manuscripts are currently preserved by the British Library, two are in the possession of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh; one, within the University of St Andrews Library; another, within the confines of Wemyss Castle and the eighth, privately owned by Mister John Ferguson of Duns, Berwickshire. The first edition of the 'Chronicle' (based on the Royal manuscript) was published by David Macpherson in 1795, though the current standard edition was published by F.J. Amours as "The Original Chronicle of Andrew of Wyntoun: Printed on Parallel Pages from the Cottonian and Wemyss MSS., with the Variants of the Other Texts".

External links

* [http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/orygnale.htm The Robin Hood passage] at the TEAMS Medieval Texts website.

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