Child no.37 "Thomas Rhymer", from Scott's Minstrelsy (1802), 2.251.

Emily Lyle, by the way, notes that the earliest references in the ballads to historical characters or events are in the late 13th century - the time of the earliest named poet in Scots, Thomas of Erceldoune called the Rhymer, who lived in the reign of Alexander III.


See also E.B.Lyle, "The relationship between Thomas the Rhymer and Thomas of Erceldoune", Leeds Studies in English 4, 23-30.