He even made a final confession to a priest and read from the book of Psalms before his punishment. His naked body was tied to horses and dragged six miles through the streets of London. Bystanders pelted him with garbage and excrement and even hit him with sticks and whips. Like in the movie, he was hung briefly but not killed. The British preferred their executions like their parliamentary bureaucracy or tearoom chats—long and painfully drawn out. His intestines were likely burned before his eyes.
A blood-strewn William Wallace — aka Mel Gibson — is spreadeagled on the execution scaffold as a grubby medieval crowd looks on in horror. The prisoner is then urged to beg for mercy to bring to an end this horrible torture and hasten his inevitable death. But Wallace will not.
The crowd looks stunned. The great axe descends. But what really happened to William Wallace on his execution day seven centuries ago was of course far less Hollywood and much, much more brutal and horrifying. Here are some of our favorites:. Young William: I can fight. Malcolm Wallace: I know. I know you can fight. But it's our wits that make us men. William Wallace: Aye, fight and you may die.
Run, and you'll live And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take Magistrate: The prisoner wishes to say a word. William Wallace: Freeeedommm!
William Wallace: There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it.
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