Lang introduces and selects the traditional ballads of Scotland and the Border, comparing them with folk songs across Europe. The texts include ‘Sir Patrick Spens’, ‘The Battle of Otterbourne’, ‘Tam Lin’, ‘Thomas the Rhymer’, ‘The Wife of Usher’s Well’, ‘The Twa Corbies’, ‘Clerk Saunders’ and ‘The Queen’s Marie’; ‘Sir Hugh’ preserves a medieval antisemitic blood libel.
Fine versions of the great Border ballads with a scholar’s lively introduction. Download the free EPUB.