Show Scots Had Wizard Michael Scott was the th medieval Scot fish Ush wizard of ot sage celebrated by Sir Walter alter Scott in hi his hi Lay LaT ef t the Last Minstrel Michael Scott is supposed to have been the astrologer of ot the day of Emperor Frederick II who lived from 1194 1104 to 1250 and he Is said to have haTe translated for tor the emperor- emperor through the some Arabic Arabic some of Aristotle's works with commentaries by A Aver Aver- vel I An allusion sion to the sage In Dantes Dante's Inferno shows that Michael Scott must hn have already been noted I throughout Europe as u a magician at the period in which the poet lived Some authorities have identified the wizard with Sir Michael Scott of Bal Bal- wearle near the Ian lang toon of Kirkcaldy Kirk Kirk- caldy In In Scottish border border border bor bor- der folklore the wondrous wizard Is credited with Ith 1 laving cleft the tweed with a curb of or stone atone His grave is shown in Melrose abbey Detroit Detroit News |