Keith Legend
Vassal Keith and two other vassal were out hunting with one of kings of Scotland in the kings hunting-ground.A large buck, having been wounded, rusted at the king and was about to gore him in its madness, but vassal Keith kept it off and at last killed it. He cut of the head and handed it to the king.Then the king dipped his finger in the stag's blood and marked Keith's forehead with "three blood bars" and made him a knight. The new made knight put on his shield three bars of red and wore a stag's head for the crest.Keith is an old Scotch family which takes its name from the barony of Keith in East Lothian, bestowed, it is said by MalcomII on a member of the house, along with the office of Hereditary Grand Maarischal in reward of bravery shown in a blattle against the Danes.I found this article written by A.K. Ryan, an aunt. Susie