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Thread #117495   Message #2532401
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
05-Jan-09 - 05:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Well Below the Valley/Maid & Palmer
Subject: RE: Origins: Well below the valley - discuss!
For the sake of completeness, and because I've just typed the whole blasted thing out:

Glenbuchat MSS Vol II:5, pp 17-18

(Child 21, The Maid and the Palmer; Roud 2335)


Stanzas numbered and left aligned.
31: Of my scored out at beginning of the line.
53: frae or fare scored out, were inserted above.
81: well poss. changed from wall.
101: craw written above a deleted word, poss. crow.

David Buchan and James Moreira, eds., The Glenbuchat Ballads. University Press of Mississippi in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. 2007, pp 89-90.

The editors note that the refrain suggests a relationship with the fragment that Sir Walter Scott sent to C K Sharpe (Child 21B)