Manuscript: Faustina B. IX

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¶Anno domini […]1
//Sancti
[A]nno domini mo\cco/lxoiiio Haco rex Norwagie cum copiosa na
uium multitudine uenit per mare occidentale ad debel
landum regem Scocie, sed reuera ut ipse H’ affirmabat non eum repu
lit uis humana sed uirtus diuina que naues eius confregit, &
exercitum suum mortalitatem inmisit insuper ⁊ eos qui tercia die post
sollempnitatem // Michaelis ad preliandum conuenerant per pedissequos
patrie debellauit atque prostrauit, quapropter coacti sunt cum uulnera
tis ⁊ mortuis suis naues sua repetere, ⁊ sic turpius quam uenerant
[H]oc anno in die Sancte Agnetis apud Gedewrth repatriare,
peperit regina Scocie filium quem a Gamelino episcopo Sancti Andree
baptizatum iuxta patris imperium uocauerunt Alexandrum, unde
contigit ut eodem die quo nuntiatum est regi Scocie filium a Deo sibi
esse datum nuntiaretur ei ⁊ regem Norwagie defunctum. Quapropter
dupplici gaudio exhillaratus2 gratias reddidit Deo qui humiles
exaltat, ⁊ superbos humiliat.
Anno Domini moccolxxi yems exstitit asp[era] ⁊ f[rigida]

Notes

1 JT: See Broun, The Chronicle of Melrose Abbey, p. 115: ‘Little survives of this scribe’s contribution added to the upper margin of fo.63r, which has been cropped during binding. The writing is large and extended compared to neighbouring scribes, and features a prominent florid text-division sign. If this is the same item as the annal by Scribe 36 [i.e., Scribal profile 118], then it is unlikely to be a false start (as suggested by the Andersons: lxvi). Perhaps it is a copy, made in the knowledge that Scribe 36’s annal was threatened by the cutting away of the bottom half of the folio.’
2 JRD: Originally written exhilleratus then corrected by alteration of e to a.
¶In the year of the Lord […]
//Michaelmas
In the 1\2/63rd year of the Lord, Haakon, king of Norway, arrived by the Western Sea with a great number of ships to make war with the king of Scotland; but to tell the truth, as H[aakon] himself verified it, he was not repulsed by human force, but by divine power, which wrecked his ships, and sent death over his army, and on the third day after // they met to join battle, and through the infantrymen of the land divine power defeated and prostrated them; and so their ships were assembled to return with their wounded and dead, and thus they returned, more wretched than when they had arrived.
In this year, on St Agnes’ Day, the queen of Scotland gave birth to a son at Jedburgh , who was baptized by Gamelin the bishop of St Andrews, and was called Alexander in accordance with his father’s command. And it happened that on the same day on which it was reported to the king of Scotland that he had been given a son by God, he was also told that the king of Norway was dead. Jubilant on account of this double joy, he gave thanks to God who exalts the humble, and humbles the proud.1
In the 1271st year of the Lord, the winter stood out as harsh and cold

Notes

1 JRD: Cf. Lk 1: 51–2.