Turning The Bull

Maquette for proposed bronze monument depicting the legendary hero William de Rule saving King Robert the Bruce by turning a bull in mid charge. 

William de Rule, a friend and hunting companion of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas, is said to have acquired his new name, and quite a lot of land to go with it, through a remarkable incident a year before Bannockburn. While hunting near Callander, King Robert was suddenly charged by a wild white bull (probably of the same breed that survive at Chillingham in Northumberland): de Rule, a massive and fearless man, seized the bull by the horns and twisted its neck round, thus killing it and saving the King. For this he was rewarded with a grant of land and the name of Turnebull (turn ye bull)

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