APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XVIII.,
Containing notices by contemporary writers, from the 11th century downwards, of the dress and arms of the Highlanders; extracted from the Iona Club publication, Collectanea de rebus Albanicis.
Magnus Berfaet’s Saga.
A.D. 1093. It is said when King Magnus returned from his expedition in the west, that he adopted the costume in use in the western lands, and likewise many of his followers; that they went about barelegged having short tunics (W. kyrtles), and also upper garments; and so many men called him Barelegged or Barefoot.
Andrew Wyntoun (1420), referring to the combat on N. Inch, says,
At Sanct Johnstone beside the Freris,
All thai entrit in Barreris
Wyth Bow and Ax, Knyf and Swerd,
To deil amang them their last werd.
John Major (1512).