This work aroused intense interest among both the popular and academic
historians of the day, for it reprinted major portions of early
chronicles and histories which long had been unavailable other than at
research libraries. More importantly, Gregg contrasted what those
primary sources "said" to what contemporary historians of his own age
were writing about those same issues or periods. The controversy over
the Picts and the Scots was one such issue. Among the topics included
were early Pictish history and language, early Celtic Christianity, the
Book of Deer, Macbeth, the origins of clans, and the Wallace-Bruce era
of Scottish history. Gregg was primarily interested in presenting the
ancient chronicles as a source of information to be used to check and
correct modern historians. Today, it is an essential work for anyone
interested in the period 600-1350, in great part because of this
presentation of early materials, and because of the contrast between
the early chronicles and the 19th-century historians.
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