"--_Scoti-chronicon_, Bk. ii, ch. ix.
This contrast between the Highlanders and the civilized Scots must
be read in the light of Fordun's general view of the work of the
descendants of Malcolm Canmore. He describes how David I changed
the Lowlanders into civilized men, but never hints that he did so
by introducing Englishmen. He represents the whole nation (outside
the old Northumbrian kingdom) as Picts and Scots, on whose
antiquity he lays stress, and merely mentions that Malcolm Canmore
welcomed English refugees. The following extracts show that he
looked upon the Lowlanders, not as a separate race from the
Highlanders, but simply as men of the same barbarian race who had
been civilized by David:--
"Unde tota illa gentis illius barbaries mansuefacta, tanta se mox
benevolentia et humilitate substravit, ut naturalis oblita
saevitiae, legibus quas regia mansuetudo dictabat, colla
submitteret, et pacem quam eatenus nesciebat, gratanter
acciperet."--Bk. v, ch. xxxvii.
"Ipse vero pretiosis vestibus pallia tua pilosa mutavit et antiquam
nuditatem byssa et purpura texit. Ipse barbaros mores tuos
Christiana religione composuit...."--Bk. v, ch. xliii.
(_b_) _Coronation of Alexander III as a king of Scots_
"Ipso quoque rege super cathedram regalem, scilicet, lapidem,
sedente, sub cujus pedibus comites ceterique nobiles sua vestimenta
coram lapide curvatis genibus sternebant.
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