Compared to the 86 Middle English romances listed in the revised Manual of the Writings in Middle English, the corpus of Older Scots romance appears limited – only twelve Older Scots romances are known to survive. Moreover, whereas three Middle English translations of Guido's Historia exist (the Laud Troy Book, the unrhymed alliterative Destruction of Troy, and John Lydgate's Troy Book), there is only one (now incomplete) Scottish translation of this text, The Scottish Troy Book (discussed in the following chapter).

That said, references to the Trojan legend and its heroes abound in the Older Scots romance corpus. In the romance Roswall and Lillian, for instance, which was most probably composed in the second half of the sixteenth century, the hero Roswall is compared favourably in the poem's opening lines to traditional literary heroes, many from the Trojan tradition:

Further comparisons of Roswall to Hector are made throughout the romance. When Roswall's father believes him to be dead, for instance, he is compared to Priam sorrowing for the death of his son, Hector: