The Wallace only mentions events that actually happened.
The Wallace (poem) . As the title suggests , it commemorates and eulogises the life and actions of the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace who lived a century and a half earlier . The poem is historically inaccurate , and mentions several events that never happened . The first mention of Blind Harry as the work 's author was made by John Mair in his 1521 work Historia Majoris Britanniae , tam Angliae quam Scotiae .