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Legends of the saints : in the Scottish dialect of the fourteenth century : John Barbour , William Musham Metcalfe : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

3 volumes : 22 cm

A series of verse translations, mainly from the "Legenda aurea"; ascribed to John Barbour, but this authorship is much disputed

"Though without author's name [the work] is proved with reasonable certainty to be Barbour's by the similarity of its metre with that of the 'Brus.'"--Dict. of nat. biog

"Positive evidence ... that [Barbour] was the author of the legends there is absolutely none. Of evidence that he was not their author there is an abundance."--Introd., v. 1, p. xxiv

Published originally in 6 parts, 1888-96

v. 1-2. Introduction and text.--v. 3. Notes, glossary, index, bibliography