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Blind Hary, active 1470-1492


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    • Blin Hary, active 1470-1492
    • Blind Harry, active 1470-1492
    • Hary, Blind, active 1470-1492
    • Harry, the Minstrel, active 1470-1492
    • Henricus, active 1470-1492
    • Hary, the Minstrel, active 1470-1492
    • Henry, the Minstrel, active 1470-1492
    • Henry, the Minstrel, fl. 1470-1492

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    • Associated Locale

        Scotland

    • Associated Language

        Scots

    • Occupation

      Poets

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Henry, the Minstrel, active 1470-1492
    • Henry, the Minstrel, fl. 1470-1492

  • Sources

    • found: Scott, T. Tales of Sir William Wallace, guardian of Scotland, c1981:t.p. (Blin Hary)
    • found: Miller, J.F. Blind Harry's "Wallace", 1914.
    • found: Manual of the writings in Middle Eng., 1050-1400, 1916(Henry the Minstrel)
    • found: DNB(Henry the Minstrel, or Blind Harry or Hary, fl. 1470-1492; Scottish poet)
    • found: BM(Henry, the Minstrel, commonly called Blind Harry)
    • found: LC database, May 10, 2000(hdgs: Henry, the Minstrel, 15th cent.; Henry, the Minstrel, d. 1492?)
    • found: Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 20 Oct., 2016(Hary; Harry; called Blind Hary; b. c.1440, d. in or after 1492; poet, was the author of "The Actis and Deidis of the Illuster and Vailzeand Campioun Schir William Wallace" (title as in a 1570 edition by Robert Lekpreuik); Contemporary documentation of Hary's life is very sparse; His name appears five times in the Scottish treasurer's accounts in the years 1490-92; in each instance the name is written as Blind(e) Hary; The same appellation is used by William Dunbar in his "Lament for the Makaris", probably written in 1505, in which Hary is stated to be dead; The practice of referring to him as Henry, which became customary after John Jamieson in his 1820 edition of Wallace styled its author Henry the Minstrel, is without historical warrant; A reference by John Mair identifies Hary (Henricus) as the author of "Integrum librum Guillelmi Wallacei"; Hary's own mention of Sir William Wallace of Craigie as being alive at the time of the poem: Wallace was knighted in 1471-2 and killed at the siege of Dunbar in 1479) - http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12972

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    • 1980-12-03: new
    • 2016-10-21: revised

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