You have recently married Malcolm III 'Canmore'. You are now Queen of Scotland, a country which is foreign to you. You were brought up in England and Hungary with all the privileges and manners of a modern court. Scotland seems a wild and uncivilised place with many different peoples, cultures and languages.

Watercolour painting of 13th century courtly life by William Bell Scott, 1842.

Example of the language of the Angles. Anglo-Saxon poem 'The Dream of the Rood'.