“thanks to Mel Gibson’s preposterous movie “Braveheart,”
Stopped reading right there...
I’ve read the supposedly definitive bios of both men. Bruce at one time had literally lost all his soldiers, was literally alone and chased through Scotland, while his wife and daughter were held in cages dangling outside an English castle. I can’t find from these what, if any, role Bruce had in betraying Wallace, but his story after that is wildly inspirational.
It was a movie.
It was a good movie. But like all “stories” there is a perspective. I don’t think it was preposterous. I also don’t believe it was entirely accurate.