Quote Originally Posted by rmmcscott View Post
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!