The Outlaw Johnnie Armstrong and The Sword of Redemption($26.50Value)

Description

Johnnie Armstong! The Ballad hero of the Scottish Borders... The Warrior Laird of Gilnockie Hall and his band of vagabond Reivers! holding the Border from the ambitions of the English, yet treacherously hanged by the Scottish King... But what truths lie hidden behind the myths? A contemporary look into a Border legend, exploring the characters whose names and actions echoed down the corridors of power, bringing fear into the very hearts and minds of both the English and Scottish Crowns… Including the story of the Redemption Sword, which illustrates the Ballad of Johnnie Armstrong, made by the author and carried on a Historic Pilgrimage from the ruins of Gilnockie Tower, to break the ‘Greit Curse’ of Gavin Dunbar, the Bishop of Glasgow, proclaimed upon the Borderers in 1525…