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Blind Harry's Wallace has been one of the most popular works of historical literature in Scotland and was one of the first books to be printed there, c. 1508, by Chepman and Myllar, Edinburgh. Many editions and versions have been published over the course of the next four centuries:

  • The Actis and Deidis of the Illuster and Vailyeand Campioun, Schir William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie, Robert Lekpreuik, Edinburgh, 1570.
  • The Lyfe and Actis of the Maist Illvster and Vailzeand Campiovn William Wallace, Knicht of Ellerslie, Mainteiner and defender of the libertie of Scotland, Henry Charteris, Edinburgh, 1594.
  • The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace, General and Governour of Scotland, William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, William Duncan, Glasgow, 1722.
  • The Scottish Chiefs, Jane Porter, 1809. (A novelization)
  • The Life and Acts of Sir William Wallace of Ellerslie By Henry the Minstrel, John Jamieson, Editor. Maurice Ogle & Co., Glasgow, 1869.
  • The Actis and Deidis of the Illustere and Vailyeand Campioun Schir William Wallace Knicht of Ellerslie by Henry the Minstrel Commonly Known as Blind Harry, James Moir, Editor, Scottish Text Society, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1889.
  • The Actis and Deidis of Schir William Wallace, William Craigie, Editor, Scottish Text Society, Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, New York, 1940.
  • Hary's Wallace, Matthew P. McDiarmid, Editor, Scottish Text Society, William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh, 1968-69. (Two volumes.)
  • Blind Harry's Wallace, William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, Luath Press Limited, Edinburgh, 1998.

Photo credits: (Related Resources) Cover of The Scottish Chiefs, N.C. Wyeth, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921, Boston Public Library Collection, archive.org

Related Resources

Cover of The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter, 1926
Digitized version of The Scottish Chiefs, by Jane Porter, a novelization published in 1921 by Charles Scribner's Sons, about William Wallace and the First Scottish War of Independence. Read online at archive.org.