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

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 January 2016

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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!
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1:40.3	He had brought in a rather impressive catch when a band of Englishmen rode up, led by the notorious Lord Percy.
1:48.3	Noticing the fishing Scotsman, they approached him and demanded that he gave them all the fish that he had caught that day.
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