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The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott, Bart (5); Lord of the Isles. Occasional Pieces
The Poems and Ballads of Sir Walter Scott Bart Lord of the Isles Occasional Pieces - 5 Author:Sir Walter Scott Volume: 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1900 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a m... more »illion books for free. Excerpt: EDITOR'S NOTES. Canto I. VIII. Appendix, Note C. -- "Lord of the Isles." As Scott himself remarks, there was no Ronald, Lord of the Isles, at this date. The lord (if any one then bore that title, which is doubtful) was Angus Og, who in 1303 (?) succeeded his brother, Alistair, both being sons of Angus Mor (died 1300), who had been a partisan of the eldest Bruce as early as 1288. Angus Og, himself, had been at one time of the English party, when Bruce was not putting forward his claims. Bruce's murder of Comyn caused a blood-feud between him and the Macdougals of Lome and Argyll, but perhaps thereby rather knit closer the bonds between himself and Angus Og. Their alliance was never broken, and, though the Lords of the Isles were usually of the English faction, Angus led his Mac- donalds and confederate Celts in Bruce's reserve at Bannock- burn. A Scottish author of 1754 insists that the English never defeated the Lowland Scots, except when the Lowland- ers had Highland aid, as at Flodden. Baunockburn disposes of this ungenerous taunt. In the Highland genealogy quoted by Scott, it is erroneously said that another Angus Og (bastard of John, the last real Lord of the Isles, who died in 1498) left his wife pregnant at the time of his murder, and that the child was Donald Dubh. The wife of this Angus Og was a daughter of Argyll's, and as to who really was the mother of Donald Dubh, sennachies know not. It seems certain that Atholl did kidnap some woman, whether the wife of Angus or not, who, when in Argyll's custody, became mother of Donald Dubh. But Angus Og was not then dead ; he revenged hims...« less