700th anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath

[Nearly Sane]

Central to the very idea of Scotland

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Arbroath

[torridon]

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[Gordon]

It's quite a story: I'd have though more would have been made of it in the Scottish media but I suppose, understandable, that current events are more pressing.

I remember learning about the "for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule" as a child but I never knew about the Sallust influence on this translation.

[SusanDoris]

It's quite a story: I'd have though more would have been made of it in the Scottish media but I suppose, understandable, that current events are more pressing.

I remember learning about the "for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule" as a child but I never knew about the Sallust influence on this translation.

Coincidentally, My (older) son, who is reading me A History of the British Isles in 100 Places) was reading me the chapter on Arbroath and the treaty on Saturday! It was very interesting.

[Anchorman]

It's quite a story: I'd have though more would have been made of it in the Scottish media but I suppose, understandable, that current events are more pressing.

I remember learning about the "for, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule" as a child but I never knew about the Sallust influence on this translation.

   



The interesting - and revolutionary - bit was ther bit about kiccking out the King if he dared to submit to England against the 'commonwealth of the Realm'.
For its' time, it was, and remains, an extraordinary statement, and puts on parchment that the rights of the people, rather than the monarch, of Scotland, are forever sovriegn.