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Dalhousie Castle, 1984
The fine old castle of Dalhousie standing on the bank of the South Esk. Pictured here in 1984, there are now a few fairly well established trees along the driveway.
Tradition has it that Blind Harry, author 'The Wallace' - a lengthy poem recounting the life of William Wallace - struck his harp in its ancient halls during his minstrel warnings in the fifteenth century. It is likely that he sung here of Wallace and his exploits, as he did in so many of Scotland’s ancient halls.
Robert Burns is said to have made a reference of Blind Harry's poem when he incorporated the following lines from Harry’s Wallace into his own poem of Robert Bruce’s Address to his Army at Bannockburn - Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled:
A false usurper sinks in every foe
And liberty returns with every blow
Burns is said to have described this as a "a couplet worthy of Homer".
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Dalhousie Castle, 1984
The fine old castle of Dalhousie standing on the bank of the South Esk. Pictured here in 1984, there are now a few fairly well established trees along the driveway.
Tradition has it that Blind Harry, author 'The Wallace' - a lengthy poem recounting the life of William Wallace - struck his harp in its ancient halls during his minstrel warnings in the fifteenth century. It is likely that he sung here of Wallace and his exploits, as he did in so many of Scotland’s ancient halls.
Robert Burns is said to have made a reference of Blind Harry's poem when he incorporated the following lines from Harry’s Wallace into his own poem of Robert Bruce’s Address to his Army at Bannockburn - Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled:
A false usurper sinks in every foe
And liberty returns with every blow
Burns is said to have described this as a "a couplet worthy of Homer".
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