Oops, sorry about that! I'm not heard the Sileas version (which omits a critical statement from the chambermaid -- "If you'd ha taen her maidenheid you might ha hired her hand") but have long been fascinated with the "twin" ballads of Eppie Morrie (Child 223) and Rob Roy (Child 225) that tell (up to a point) essentially the same story and even share a couple of identical "battle verses" while taking very different "sides" (and of course ending very differntly)! I hear Eppie Morrie as "deep play" in contrast to Rob Roy's "realism"; for more details, click here ( or here to see how the ballads fit into my broader thesis). The ballads are based, incidentally, on a real abduction of a rich heiress and the abductor (an impoverished descendant of the legendary Rob Roy) was, in fact, hanged.