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The work of Fordun is the earliest attempt to write a continuous history of Scotland. Collectively, this work, divided into five books, is known as the Chronica Gentis Scotorum. The first three are unverified historically, which therefore casts doubt on their accuracy.
Recent scholarship suggests that a portion of what has hitherto been considered Fordun's chronicle, i.e. events after 1153, should be regarded as two separate works, neither of which can, in any meaningful sense, be attributed to Fordun himself. Therefore, the list of yearly events after the death of King David I in 1153 should be regarded as the separate works Gesta Annalia I and Gesta Annalia II.[1]
Fordun also wrote part of another book, and collected materials to cover the history of Scotland to a later period. These materials were used by a continuator, Walter Bower, abbot of the monastery of Inchcolm, who wrote in the middle of the 15th century. Bower did not hesitate to interpolate Fordun's portion of the work with additions of his own. The whole history thus compiled is known as the Scotichronicon. Fordun is often credited as an author of Scotichronicon, and Bower did declare in the text that his aim was to build upon the earlier work of Fordun, but Bower's chronicle is a separate and distinct chronicle.[2]
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