Letter: Scotching myths
Granted, Wallace raised a rebellion against Edward I, was betrayed, captured and executed, and rightly became a national hero. But a blue-faced Wallace with a phony accent who inserted his own DNA into the blood-line of today's British monarchy by seducing a French princess? If that's the history we want to proclaim, it's enough to put people off voting SNP.
John Patterson
Scotland Street
Edinburgh
ACCORDING to David Stevenson (Letters, 19 April), the "British establishment'' is conniving to make us believe what it "would like us to believe'' about the Highland Clearances.
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Mr Stevenson's premise is preposterous, a sad reflection of a mindset that makes Braveheart reality and locks the world out of their Brigadoon fantasies.
Alexander McKay
New Cut Rigg, Edinburgh