The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #43706 Message #3972947
Posted By: Steve Gardham
22-Jan-19 - 03:53 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Subject: RE: Lyr Req/Add: Brian O'Lynn & Tam o' the Linn
Jon,
Have you anything that positively recognises 'Tam Lin' before 1769? If not it's highly unlikely to have any connection to our song here. The tentative supernatural connection you make here could, I suppose, have influenced the writer of 'Tam Lin' in the middle of the 18th century. Just an opinion.