The New International Encyclopædia/Wyntoun, Andrew of

WYNTOUN, wīn′tŭn, Andrew of (1350?-1420?). A Scottish chronicler, about whom very little is known except that he was a canon regular of Saint Andrew's and was elected about 1395 prior of Saint Serf's Inch in Loch Leven. His Oryginale Cronykil of Scotland, in verse, possesses great linguistic interest as a specimen of early English written in the North. Like Barbour's Bruce, the poem is composed in octosyllabic verse. The work was edited by David Laing for the ‘Historians of Scotland Series’ (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1872-79). A new edition from the Wemyss manuscript is being prepared for the Scottish Text Society.