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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1426 a Scottish charter names 'John Fraser, now called Unicorn'. No picture of a Scottish royal unicorn survives from that year, and no document ever explains why the kings of Scots wanted a beast nobody had seen. This book follows what they did with it.James III put it on his gold. When he died in 1488 his officials counted 980 gold unicorns in Edinburgh Castle, beside the queen's unicorn horn, kept against poison. James V set it over his gates and on his seal. Mary, Queen of Scots, put two chained unicorns on her great seal. In 1567 a ship called the Unicorn broke on a Shetland rock while chasing her husband, and from captivity she wrote to France for a piece of unicorn horn. In 1603 James VI took the unicorn south and set it beside the English lion, where it has stood ever since.After the king left, the burghs carved it on their market crosses, a Jacobite medal showed it trampled, and Victorian Scotland carved most of the unicorns it now calls ancient. In the twenty-first century eighteen weavers spent fourteen years remaking a unicorn hunt for Stirling Castle.No law makes the unicorn Scotland's national animal. It became the nation's beast after Scotland lost a king of its own, and this book shows how.With a guide to where Scotland's unicorns can be seen today, a chronology and an annotated guide to the sources.…