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 The absence of scars from his countenance is more than once remarked upon by Harry:

In retreat he was as terrible as in attack:

My friend Mr. Brown has essayed to trace the sources of the Wallace portrait given by Harry, and has concluded that it came from the alliterative Troy Book. The main things, however, are not from that work: they are from Barbour's Bruce. Barbour describes James of Douglas:

As for his wounds, there is no doubt whatever that Harry's Wallace got them from James of Douglas. The episode in Spain is familiar how, meeting Douglas there, a knight, bearing a countenance all rueful with scars, wondered at Douglas's freedom from such: