All Nite Drive-In

[Lallans]

That's easy to say when you're not a Comyn.

Seriously though, read Alan Young's book. Young really does an excellent job in setting the record straight about how the Comyns were not the blackhearted villians that the Bruce propaganda machine (and he discusses that as well) would have us believe. If anything, the Bruce and John Comyn were very similiar -- both had fought the English and cooperated with them when need be.

For example, few people today are aware of the Comyn's defeat of the English at the Battle of Roslin in 1303:

http://www.laird.org.uk/Scots/The_Battle_of_Roslin.htm

It's a pity they couldn't have worked together. I won't take anything away from Bruce in terms of his military achievements, but I won't necessarily paint him as a Scottish super-patriot.

Of course, being a Comyn descendant, I am just a wee bit biased.

T.

As Homer once said to his daughter: "But Lisa, everything's bad if you remember it!" Anyway, OK, Bruce was no saint but he had to work in the time and place he found himself in, and he WAS the man who succeeded for Scotland. Gibson had him looking totally black after his movie character emerged from the black-and-white script factory that generated that film.