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12th October 07, 01:40 AM
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 Originally Posted by rmmcscott
Was glad to see the sight of the 700th Anniversary of Robert the Bruce pre-coronation battle! I just finished reading an article about it with pictures of the Earl of Elgin - Clan Chief of Bruce Clan, and his family at the exact site of the coronation, some 700 years later! They had his actual sword there - which, by the way, was the exact sword that was used to knight the famous poet Burns!!
um... weel....nay...
Burns wuz no actually knichted ya ken....
in 1787 an auld Jacobite lady, Mrs Bruce o' Clackmannan- "knighted" Burns... which she actually had nay 'richt' tae dae... wi' a sword that she claimed belaing'd tae Robert The Bruce (but there is nay proof o' that...)
he is no Sir Robert Burns...
maks fur a nice story though! 
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12th October 07, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Pour1Malt
um... weel....nay...
Burns wuz no actually knichted ya ken....
in 1787 an auld Jacobite lady, Mrs Bruce o' Clackmannan- "knighted" Burns... which she actually had nay 'richt' tae dae... wi' a sword that she claimed belaing'd tae Robert The Bruce (but there is nay proof o' that...)
he is no Sir Robert Burns...
maks fur a nice story though!
Interesting... (not that I'm doubting because I haven't actually spoken with Lord Elgin (Bruce Family Clan Chief) to verify the proof he has about it being Robert the Bruce's sword) check out http://www.robert-de-bruce.com/700thAnniversary.htm and be sure to note the pictures with Lord Elgin, and Lord Bruce holding the sword at Moot Hill at Scone during the 700th Anniversary celebration of the coronation of Robert the Bruce. I believe that Lord Elgin believes this to be the same sword used by Robert the Bruce, and has authorized McAllen Armoury to make the exact replicas. Whether or not the "knighting" was legal or not, ehhh... but it's believed to be the same sword.
Interesting if nothing else.
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14th October 07, 02:55 AM
#3
Originally Posted by rmmcscott
Interesting... (not that I'm doubting because I haven't actually spoken with Lord Elgin (Bruce Family Clan Chief) to verify the proof he has about it being Robert the Bruce's sword) check out http://www.robert-de-bruce.com/700thAnniversary.htm and be sure to note the pictures with Lord Elgin, and Lord Bruce holding the sword at Moot Hill at Scone during the 700th Anniversary celebration of the coronation of Robert the Bruce. I believe that Lord Elgin believes this to be the same sword used by Robert the Bruce, and has authorized McAllen Armoury to make the exact replicas. Whether or not the "knighting" was legal or not, ehhh... but it's believed to be the same sword.
Interesting if nothing else.
it may arr may no bae Bruce's sword- that ai dinnae ken oucht... if Laird Elgin says it is- that is guid enough fur me!
but ai ken Robert Burns is no Sir Robert Burns....
if he wuz- Scots wuid certainly refer tae him that way!
but we dinnae....
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12th October 07, 02:15 PM
#4
Agnes Burns (Robert Burns sister)
Originally Posted by Pour1Malt
um... weel....nay...
Burns wuz no actually knichted ya ken....
in 1787 an auld Jacobite lady, Mrs Bruce o' Clackmannan- "knighted" Burns... which she actually had nay 'richt' tae dae... wi' a sword that she claimed belaing'd tae Robert The Bruce (but there is nay proof o' that...)
he is no Sir Robert Burns...
maks fur a nice story though!
Have a look at this - Agnes Burns (Robert Burns sister) married a farmer in Co. Louth and is buried in the Presbyterian churchyard in Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland - http://www.hoganstand.com/general/Id...ries/burns.htm
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