Blind Harry ( 1440 – 1492), also known as
Harry,
Hary or
Henry the Minstrel, is renowned as the author of
The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, more commonly known as
The Wallace. This was a lengthy poem recounting the life of
William Wallace, the Scottish independence leader, written around 1477, 172 years after Wallace's death.