In Fiction
- "Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field" (1808), an epic poem in six cantos by Sir Walter Scott
- The Battle of Flodden Field, told from several different perspectives, is the subject of the novel, "Flodden Field", by Elisabeth McNeill, pub.2007
- Flodden from the perspective of a Yorkshire archer is the subject of the novel, 'Tom Fleck' by Harry Nicholson, pub. 2011
- The Flowers of the Forest, a historical novel by Elizabeth Byrd, chronicles the life of Queen Margaret Tudor of Scotland and culminates in the Battle of Flodden
- Arthur Sullivan wrote an overture, his Overture Marmion (1867), inspired by the Scott poem.
- There is no historical record of anyone from the Clan Munro taking part in the Battle of Flodden Field, however there is an old tradition that the Munros of Argyll are descended from a Flodden survivor. One of these descendants was Neil Munro (writer).
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