Its style is somewhat bald and severe. No one has doubted Barbour's authorship of the Brus, but argument has been attempted to show that the text as we have it is an edited copy, perhaps by John Ramsay, a Perth scribe, who wrote out the two extant texts, one preserved in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, and the other in the library of St John's College, Cambridge.
The writing style of Barbour's Brus is blunt and direct.  There has been debate about its origin, with some suggesting that the text we have is a revised version, possibly written by John Ramsay, a scribe from Perth, who created both versions, one held in the Advocates Library in Edinburgh and the other at St John's College in Cambridge.