In the liner notes to her song "Nine Stone Rig" (from "Fashionably Late", Rounder) Linda Thompson writes: "I based this song on a couple of verses from a `faux' Scottish ballad, Barthram's Dirge, written by Robert Surtees who gave it to Sir Walter Scott as a traditional song for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border."
Can anyone supply the story on this? Was Sir Walter hoaxed, or what? And what the heck is a Nine Stone Rig?