The Scottish Renaissance humanist George Buchanan gave a long list of Scottish Kings in his history of Scotland—published in Latin as Rerum Scoticarum Historia in 1582[1][2]—most of whom are now considered by historians to be figures of legend, or completely misrepresented. The list went back around 1900 years from his time, and began with Fergus I. James VI of Scotland, who was Buchanan's pupil, adopted the story of Fergus I as his ancestor, and the antiquity of the line was emphasised by the House of Stuart.
- ^ "index". www.philological.bham.ac.uk.
- ^ Buchanan, George (8 January 1799). "The history of Scotland : from the earliest accounts of that nation, to the reign of King James VI". Glasgow : Chapman and Lang – via Internet Archive.