Tam Lin and Carterhaugh?

Subject: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh?
From: Shonagh
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 02:01 PM

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!

Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 02:13 PM

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.

Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh?
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 02:35 PM

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."

Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 03:07 PM

Further information can be found at www.tam-lin.org/carterhaugh.html

Subject: RE: Tam Lin and Carterhaugh?
From: Shonagh
Date: 05 Mar 02 - 03:20 PM

Thanks so much. Thats helped me alot.