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Our Fake History

Episode #12- Who Was The Real Braveheart? (Part I)

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

William Wallace is not only one of Scotland's best loved national heroes, he's also one of the most internationally well-known. His role as a leader in Scotland's medieval wars of independence against the English made him famous, but the poetry of an obscure minstrel named Blind Harry would make him a legend. Blind Harry's epic poem, "The Wallace", would double as Wallace's official biography for centuries, and would inform the script of the 1995 film Braveheart. But, how many of Harry's tall-tales sync up with the verifiable facts of Wallace's life? Listen and find out how fishing pole fencing, the King of England's butt, a booby-trapped bridge, and a whole lot of missing limbs play a role in the story! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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There's a story about a man who went fishing in the streams of Scotland

0:44.0

sometime in the late 1200s.

0:46.6

He had brought in a rather impressive catch

0:49.3

when a band of Englishmen rode up led by the notorious Lord Percy.

0:54.6

Noticing the fishing Scotsman, they approached him

0:57.4

and demanded that he give them all the fish that he had caught that day.

1:02.2

Anoyed by these presumptuous Englishmen, but keenly aware

1:06.0

that he had left his sword at home, the Scotsman proposed to compromise.

1:10.8

He would happily share half of his catch so long as the soldiers left him be.

1:16.8

The Englishmen were not interested in sharing anything,

1:20.2

and they continued to demand all of the man's fish.

1:23.5

The Scots refused, stoically telling the fish thieves,

1:27.2

quote, thou art in the wrong.

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