BLIND HARRY

BLIND HARRY, a famous wandering Scottish minstrel who flourished in the 15th century. To him is attributed the celebrated poem, "The Life of that Noble Champion of Scotland, Sir William Wallace, Knight," completed about 1488, a spirited, if partly apocryphal, account of Wallace, running to 11,861 lines in length.

The few particulars of his life which have come down to us represent him as a blind and vagrant poet, living by reciting poems "before princes and peers".