This article was corrected on 30 August 2012 because the original standfirst said pedalled, when it should have said peddled. Richard Oram is a Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling. Brave cast and crew interview: Only Pixar could improve Scotland - video. It's said that she and her ladies appeared on the battlements, dusting the places where the enemies' stones had fallen – though that particular story may be as apocryphal as the events in this film. There's Euphemia, a countess of Ross in her own right in the 14th century, and Agnes Randolph, Countess of Dunbar, who defended Dunbar Castle during the 1330s. The fact that the film has a strong woman at its centre may actually be quite accurate: we know very little about women in medieval Scotland, but those we do know about seem to have been pretty feisty. It's also highly unlikely there were bears in medieval times: we think they became extinct in Scotland in the prehistoric period. When the petition first started getting press, a Disney representative issued a vague statement to Yahoo Shine that didn’t come close to addressing the concerns of the petitioners. A skilled archer and sword-fighter, Merida takes after her father King Fergus’ unruliness, also embodying her mother Queen Elinor’s stubbornness. That ties in with the view peddled abroad since Queen Victoria: that of a bare, rugged land, inhabited by wild men in kilts. Brave’s 16-year-old Princess Merida, a Scottish princess of the kingdom DunBroch, seeks to break free of tradition and live a life of freedom and independence. Brave is the first Pixar film starring a female protagonist. The general feel – the mix of water and hills, forest and mountains – is very good: the forests are a realistic blend of Scots pine and birch.
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