This part of the "Medievalist" interview deals with my "Guardians" Trilogy and the entire story of how I finally worked my way around to dealing with, and writing about, Scots or Scottish history and, incidentally, why I had been reluctant, up until then, to get into it. It goes on from there, though, to talk about my early research into William Wallace, The Braveheart, and how I was faced with separating the Man from the Myth, without enraging the millions of Scots who had grown up believing William Wallace was a Deity...