Greeting NSC from an ex-Coldstreamer: The Battle of Otterburn ("It fell about the Lammastide...") and Chevy Chase (God prosper long our noble king..") are quite different ballads, even if they are numerical neighbors in Child's collection. The first is about a major raid which culminated in battle on Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1388, (according to a French war correspondent)and the second is about a defiant hunt which may have occured about 1435. Different Douglas. Different Percy. The action in the first few verses of the first song takes place around Newcastle, before moving west. The second bloodbath, involving a hike from Bamburgh, could scarely have reached Otterburn, and was more likely to have occured on the flanks of The Cheviot.