Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Scottish sword dances are ritualistic and combative dances that imitate epic deeds and martial skills and are a familiar feature in Scottish tradition and folklore. Notwithstanding Welsh and English Morris dance, related dances are known in Austria, Germany, Flanders,France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Romania. Moreover, some ezpatadantza (Basque sword dances) seem strikingly similar to their Scottish cousins which makes some scholars suspect a common low-medieval or Renaissance ancestry. More fanciful writers do not hesitate to point a Roman origin. The earliest reference to these dances in Scotland is mentioned in the Scotichronicon, compiled in Scotland by Walter Bower in the 1440s. The passage regards Alexander III and his second marriage to the French noblewoman Yolande de Dreux at Jedburgh in Roxburghshire on 14 October 1285.

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