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 excelled by Wallace both in stature and in bodily strength; ."—Constable's Table Misc.

We have just heard how his body compared with the great Wallace's.

Sir Herbert Maxwell quotes the Historia Majoris Britanniae thus: "His figure was graceful and athletic, with broad shoulders; his features were handsome; he had the yellow hair of the Northern race, with blue and sparkling eyes, his intellect was quick; and he had the gift of fluent speech in the vernacular delightful to listen to.… Supposing the remains exhumed at Dunfermline to have been King Robert's, which is very far from improbable; he must have stood about six feet high. In days when deeds of arms formed as much of the every-day life of gentlemen as politics do their modern counterparts; the union of a powerful body with a strong intellect was sure to bring a man to distinction; provided he escaped a violent death on the field or on the scaffold."

"Robert the Bruce was a remarkably brave and strong