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05 Mar 02 - 02:01 PM (#663175) Subject: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh? From: Shonagh I was just wondering if anyone knew where Carterhaugh wood was? This is where Tam Lin is supposed to have dwelt with the fey-folk. Im learning it just now and id just like to know a wee bit about where its set. thanks! |
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05 Mar 02 - 02:13 PM (#663184) Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh? From: GUEST,leeneia My dictionary says that a haugh (pronounced hahk or hahf) is a low-lying meadow by the side of the river, and that the word comes from Scotland and the north of England. I believe that's all anybody knows, but you could look for towns or prominent families named Carter, I suppose. |
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05 Mar 02 - 02:35 PM (#663193) Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh? From: Malcolm Douglas From The Glenriddell MS., quoted in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads vol. I, F.J. Child, 1884:
"Carterhaugh is a plain at the confluence of the Ettrick with the Yarrow, scarcely an English mile above the town of Selkirk, and on this plain they show two or three rings on the ground, where, they say, the stands of milk and water stood, and upon which grass never grows." |
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05 Mar 02 - 03:07 PM (#663219) Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh? From: GUEST Further information can be found at www.tam-lin.org/carterhaugh.html |
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05 Mar 02 - 03:20 PM (#663225) Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh? From: Shonagh Thanks so much. Thats helped me alot. |