NOTE:The version of Blind Harry's Wallace presented on this site is The Life and Heroick Actions of the Renoun'd Sir William Wallace, General and Governour of Scotland, by William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, first published by William Duncan, Glasgow, in 1722, last issued in 1859. The original spelling and capitalization has been retained; quotation marks and paragraph breaks have been inserted for ease of comprehension. A synopsis for each chapter, in modern American English, is provided by the Webmaster of this site.
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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.