[Chuckster]

I sailed with a Scot in the Bark Endeavour. Her comment: Mel Gibson as William Wallace? That’s a joke! That puny little sh!t couldn’t even lift Wallaces sword.

[yarddog]

When I was growing up, our local library had a huge and nice collection of Scottish armor and weapons. It had been collected by a guy named Bruce who was at one time the American Ambassador to Scotland. I have no idea when they started or stopped having one.

Anyway the armor was for fairly small people so Wallace at 6’4” must have been a giant among them. Those old swords were huge. I can remember thinking just how difficult they would have been to wield.

[coalman]

W.W. was supposedly a distant relative-the first castle he took was given to my ancestor ,who was said to be his cousin,who was one of the “gentle” Johnstones,who were written about by Sir walter Scott. The Johnstones were border reivers and were lowlanders and at their heighth of power owned 11 castles. One thing about Wallace-he was the real Robin Hood,according to some.

[Boogieman]

Yeah, they even "lampshaded" that in the movie, when the guy says that Gibson can't be Wallace, because William Wallace was seven feet tall.