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WALLACE OR THE LIFE AND ACTS OF SIR WILLIAM WA...

Wallace  or  the Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace  of Ellerslie is a long romantic
biographical poem by the fifteenth-century Scottish Minstrel  Blind Harry  probably in the
decade before 1488. It celebrates and applauds the life and acts of the Scottish freedom
fighter William Wallace who lived a century and a half earlier. For almost hundred years after
its publication  The Wallace was the second most popular book in Scotland after the Bible. It
is a long narrative work composed in decasyllabic rhyming couplets. It contains the life events
from the life of William Wallace from his childhood  through his profession as a Scots patriot
in the First War of Independence until his execution in London in 1305. The factual elements of
the poem are combined with many fictional elements. Wallace is presented as an ideal hero in
the tradition of chivalric romance. He is described as being consistently brave  patriotic 
pious and knightly.

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