Re [belatedly] words posted by Susanne on 1 Jan 2004 ~~
which have it that one of narrator's "richt lads" was killed "at the Lowrin' Fair" --

I recall that Robin Hall, whose version with Jimmy MacGregor is mentioned above, used to express this as "killed in lower [or lour?] unfair", which he glossed as "in unfair battle" ~~ which fits better with Susanne's later verse about how he was not allowed to fight one-to-one, but was outnumbered.

I cannot however find anywhere a gloss of 'lower/lour' to mean a battle or a fight. Does it exist in any dialect. As I say, it would make good sense in the context.

~Michael~