1. Differences

   1. Use of that and who as conjunctions referring to Alexander

   2. The English verb form ‘gone’ in Scots ‘away/awa’

   3. Old Scots word order in the subordinate clause where the verb follows the object (in this case ‘Scotland’)

2. Similarities

   1. The verb ‘lead/lede’, the nouns ‘wax, glee’

   2. Use of ‘change into’

   3. Use of nouns derived from Latin with ‘y’-ending, i.e. virginity, perplexity, remedy

   4. The spelling of ‘gold/golde/gowd’

   5. The spelling of ‘our/oor’ in different version of Scots

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