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John Barbour
John Barbour was a Scottish poet and churchman, archdeacon of Aberdeen from 1357. His verse epic The Brus, completed around 1375, tells the story of Robert the Bruce and the Wars of Independence and is the first major work of literature in Scots. It shaped the later popular image of Bruce and of Scottish freedom.
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