References analysis of the Wikipedia article "Thomas the Rhymer" in the English version

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— or, to be more precise: "The narrative begins in the first person, but changes to the third, lapsing once for a moment into the first" (Burnham 1908, p. 377) Burnham, Josephine M. (1908). "A Study of Thomas of Erceldoune". PMLA. 23 (3): 375–. doi:10.2307/456793. JSTOR 456793. S2CID 163171545.

Chambers 1870, p. 296. Chambers, Robert (1870). The Popular rhymes of Scotland: New Edition. W. & R. Chambers. p. 296.

Tait (sometimes written tate and tett), a lock of matted hair. Mackay's Dictionary (1888); Tate, tait, teat, tatte 2. "Lock, applied to hair" John Jamieson's Dictionary (Abridged, 1867).

Lyle, E. B. (1970). "The Relationship between Thomas the Rhymer and Thomas of Erceldoune". Leeds Studies in English. NS 4: 23–30.

Myers, Andrew B. (1976). A Century of commentary on the works of Washington Irving, 1860–1974 (snippet). Sleepy Hollow Restorations. p. 462. ISBN 9780912882284.

Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson (1930) [1906], "Thomas the Rhymer", Tales from Scottish Ballads, Stewart, Allan, 1865-1951, illus., A. & C. Black, pp. 195–213 Project Gutenberg (Children's Tales from Scottish Ballads 1906)

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Scott undertook creative exercise of writing in verse of his own what Thomas's prophecy might have been: "Thomas the Rhymer: Part Second" by Scott 1803, Minstresy II, pp. 303–307. Scott prefaced his creation with copious notes to fend off "the more severe antiquaries". Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"

Bower, Scotichronicon Book X, Ch. 43: "...qua ante horam explicite duodecimam audietur tam vehemens ventus in Scotia, quod a magnis retroactis temporibus consimilis minime inveniebatur." (footnoted in Murray 1875, pp. xiii-) Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.

Or at least "Farnalie" is given as the spot to where the queen returned Thomas in the final stanza of the D version. Child 1892, Pop. Ball. IV, pp. 454–5 Child, Francis James (1892), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. IV, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 454–5

Chambers 1826, p. 73; Chambers 1842, p. 6 Chambers, Robert (1826). The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. W. Hunter. ISBN 9780807822623.

Chambers, Robert (1842). Popular Rhymes, Fireside Stories, and Amusements of Scotland. William and Robert Chambers.

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Scott 1803, Minstrelsy, II, p.309. "Robert de Brunne" here is another name for Robert Mannyng. Scott goes on to quote another source from a manuscript in French, but Thomas of "Engleterre" is likely Thomas of Britain. Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
Child Ballad #37. "Thomas the Rymer", Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, pp. 317–329 Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
Child 1892, Pop. Ball. IV, p.454–5 Child, Francis James (1892), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. IV, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 454–5
Laing & Small 1885, pp. 82–83, 142–165. Laing, David; Small, John, eds. (1885), "Thomas off Ersseldoune", Select remains of the ancient popular poetry of Scotland, W. Blackwood and Sons, pp. 82–83, 142–165
Murray 1875, p. xxx. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
Murray 1875, Appendix I, p. 48–51 Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
In The Whole Prophecie (1603), the first three sections are the prophecies of Merlin, Bede, and John of Bridlington (analyzed in Murray 1875, pp. xxx–xl), followed by the prophecy of Thomas the Rhymour (printed in entirety in Appendix).^[10] Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
"His prophecies are alluded to by Barbour, by Wintoun, and by Henry, the minstrel, or Blind Harry.. None of these authors, however, give the words of any of the Rhymer's vaticinations" (Scott 1803, Minstresy II, pp. 281–2) Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
This particular rendition from Latin into English can be found in, e.g.:Watson, Jean L. (1875). The history and scenery of Fife and Kinross. Andrew Elliot.
Murray 1875, p. xiii. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
Cooper, Helen (2011), Galloway, Andrew (ed.), "Literary reformations of the Middle Ages", The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture, Cambridge University Press, pp. 261–, ISBN 9780521856898
Murray 1875, pp. xxxiv Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
Murray 1875, p. xxxiv, citing Lord Hailes, Remarks on the History of Scotland (1773), Chapter III, pp.89– Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
"How euer it happen for to fall, / The Lyon shal be Lord of all./The French wife shal beare the sonne, /Shal welde al Bretane to the sea, And from the Bruce's blood shall come. /As near as the ninth degree." (Murray 1875, p. xxxvi) Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
Murray 1875, p. xxxv. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, pp. 300–, "sundry rhymes, passing for his prophetic effusions, are still current among the vulgar" Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, pp. 301–. Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, p. 343. Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
Chambers 1826, pp. 78–79. Chambers, Robert (1826). The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. W. Hunter. ISBN 9780807822623.
- Murray 1875, pp. xlix, lxxxv. Murray received detailed report on the tree from Mr James Wood, Galashiels. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
- Chambers 1826, p. 79. Chambers, Robert (1826). The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. W. Hunter. ISBN 9780807822623.
  - Chambers 1826, p. 96. Chambers, Robert (1826). The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. W. Hunter. ISBN 9780807822623.
    - Chambers 1826, p. 81. Chambers, Robert (1826). The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. W. Hunter. ISBN 9780807822623.
      - Chambers 1826, p. 8. Chambers, Robert (1826). The Popular Rhymes of Scotland. W. Hunter. ISBN 9780807822623.
        Chambers, Robert (1842). Popular Rhymes, Fireside Stories, and Amusements of Scotland. William and Robert Chambers. [1]
        Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, p. 301. Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
        Murray 1875, p. xliv. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Benet, W. C. (April 1919). "Sir Douglas Haig". The Caledonian. 19 (1): 12–14.
        Lyle 2007, p. 10 Lyle, E. B. (2007). Fairies and Folk: Approaches to the Scottish Ballad Tradition (snippet). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. p. 10. ISBN 978-3884769577.
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, 320. Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Child 1892, Pop. Ball. IV, pp. 454–5. Child, Francis James (1892), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. IV, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 454–5
        "Huntley Bank, a place on the descent of the Eildon Hills," Scott, Walter (1887). Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft. G. Routledge and sons. p. 112.
        She identified it with farnileie on the Eildon Hills, which appears in a document of 1208 about a land dispute "between the monasteries of Melrose and Kelso". Scott had failed to make this identification. (Lyle 1969, p. 66; repr. Lyle 2007, p. 12) Lyle, Emily (1969). "A Reconsideration of the Place-Names in'Thomas the Rhymer'". Scottish Studies. 13: 65–71. Lyle, E. B. (2007). Fairies and Folk: Approaches to the Scottish Ballad Tradition (snippet). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier. p. 10. ISBN 978-3884769577.
        Tait (sometimes written tate and tett), a lock of matted hair. Mackay's Dictionary (1888); Tate, tait, teat, tatte 2. "Lock, applied to hair" John Jamieson's Dictionary (Abridged, 1867).
        Child (1892), Pop. Ball. I, p. 319. Child, Francis James (1892), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. IV, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 454–5
        Murray 1875, p. xxiii Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, p. 320ab, and note § Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, p. 320b Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, p. 321b. Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, 321a, note * Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Leven, "a lawn, an open space between woods"; Lily leven "a lawn overspread with lilies or flowers" John Jamieson's Dict. (Abridged, 1867)
        Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, pp. 269–273: "Part 1, Ancient" which is prefaced "never before published" Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
        Jamieson 1806, Vol. II, pp. 7–10: "procured in Scotland... before [he] knew that he was likely to be anticipated in its publication by Mr Scott" (p.7) Jamieson, Robert (1806). Popular Ballads and Songs: From Tradition. Vol. 2. A. Constable and Company. pp. 3–43.: "True Thomas and Queen of Elfland"
        Jamieson and Scott's printed in parallel in Murray 1875, pp. liii– Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, p. 317a "C being compounded of A and another version..." Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, p. 268 Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts"
        Nelson 1966, p. 140 Nelson, C. E. (1966). "The Origin and Tradition of the Ballad of "Thomas Rhymer"". New Voices in American Studies. Purdue University Press: 138–. ISBN 0911198105.
        Nelson 1966, p. 142. Nelson, C. E. (1966). "The Origin and Tradition of the Ballad of "Thomas Rhymer"". New Voices in American Studies. Purdue University Press: 138–. ISBN 0911198105.
        Nelson 1966, p. 143. Nelson, C. E. (1966). "The Origin and Tradition of the Ballad of "Thomas Rhymer"". New Voices in American Studies. Purdue University Press: 138–. ISBN 0911198105.
        Letter of Robert Anderson, who compiled The Works of the British Poets, to Bishop Percy, (Murray 1875, p. liii n1), taken from Nicholl's Illustrations of Literature, p.89 Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, pp. liii Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, pp. lxix–l. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        "als the story sayes" v.83 or "als the storye tellis" v. 123, Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, 318b Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Murray 1875, p. xlvii. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, p. lxxxi. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, pp. lvi–lxi. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875 Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, pp. 2, 47 Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, p. 18. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Murray 1875, p. 46. Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, 320a, "the earliest version (A) can be traced at furthest only into the first half of the last century. Child's comment in volume 1 did not include the Greenwood text he appendixed in Vol. IV, but Nelson has assigned the same 1700–1750 period ("early to mid-eighteenth-century text") for the Greenwood text.^[60] Cooper prefers to push it back to a "text whose origins can be traced back to before 1700"^[78] Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, pp. 274-. This commentary comes under Scott's "Appendix to the Thomas the Rhymer", where he prints an excerpt from the romance (the version with an Incipit, i.e. the Cotton MS, as spelled out by Murray in his catalog of "Printed Editions", Murray 1875, p. lxi) Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts" Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Scott goes on to say it was "as if the older tale had been regularly and systematically modernized by a poet of the present day", (Scott 1803, Minstrelsy II, p. 274), and Murray, seizing on this statement, comments that "the 'as if' in the last sentence might be safely left out, and that the 'traditional ballad' never grew 'by oral tradition' out of the older, is clear...", Murray 1875, p. liii Scott, Walter (1803). Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Vol. II. James Ballantyne. pp. 262–321.: "Thomas the Rhymer in Three Parts" Murray, James A. H., ed. (1875). The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune: printed from five manuscripts; with illustrations from the prophetic literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. EETS O.S. Vol. 61. London: Trübner.
        Nelson 1966, p. 147. Nelson, C. E. (1966). "The Origin and Tradition of the Ballad of "Thomas Rhymer"". New Voices in American Studies. Purdue University Press: 138–. ISBN 0911198105.
        Nelson 1966, pp. 142–143. Nelson, C. E. (1966). "The Origin and Tradition of the Ballad of "Thomas Rhymer"". New Voices in American Studies. Purdue University Press: 138–. ISBN 0911198105.
        Fowler, David C. (1999), Knight, Stephen Thomas (ed.), "Rymes of Robin Hood", Robin Hood: An Anthology of Scholarship and Criticism, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, pp. 73–4, ISBN 0859915255
        Cooper, Helen (2005), Saunders, Corinne J. (ed.), "Thomas of Erceldoune: Romance as Prophecy", Cultural Encounters in the Romance of Medieval England (preview), DS Brewer, pp. 171–, ISBN 0191530271
        Cooper, Helen (2004). The English Romance in Time : Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth the Death of Shakespeare (preview). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0191530271., p.467 n17: "[Lyle's paper] suggests that an early form of the ballad may underlie the romance."
        Child 1884, Pop. Ball. I, p.339a. Child, Francis James (1884), "37. Thomas Rymer", The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, vol. I, Houghton Mifflin, pp. 317–329
        Tolkien refers to this as follows: "The road to fairyland is not the road to Heaven; nor even to Hell, I believe, though some have held that it may lead thither indirectly by the Devil's tithe," and subsequently quoting stanzas of the ballad "Thomas Rymer" beginning ""O see you not yon narrow road/" (text from Jamieson 1806, p. 9). In essay "On Fairy Stories" (orig. pub. 1947), reprinted in p.98 of Tolkien, J.R.R. (2002) [1947], "Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories)", A Tolkien Miscellany, SFBC, pp. 97–145, archived from the original (doc) on 2 April 2015 Jamieson, Robert (1806). Popular Ballads and Songs: From Tradition. Vol. 2. A. Constable and Company. pp. 3–43.: "True Thomas and Queen of Elfland"
        Stewart, Susan (2002). Poetry and the Fate of the Senses. University of Chicago Press. p. 126. ISBN 0226774139.
        Irving, Washington (1861). The Crayon Miscellany. G.P. Putnam. pp. 238–240.
        Humphrey, Richard (1993). Scott: Waverley. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 9780521378888.
        Tillotson, John (1863), "Thomas the Rhymer", The Boy's Yearly Book: being the twelve numbers of the "Boy's Penny Magazine", S. O. Beeton
        Wilson, Barbara Ker (1954), "Thomas the Rhymer", Scottish Folk-tales and Legends, Oxford University Press; Repr. Wilson, Barbara Ker (1999) [1954], "Thomas the Rhymer", Fairy Tales from Scotland (Retold by), Oxford University Press, pp. 8–17, ISBN 0192750127
        Macleod, Donald Alexander (1906), "XII. Story of Thomas the Rhymer", A Book of Ballad Stories, Walker, A. G. (Arthur George 1861-1939), illus.; Dowden, Edward, intro., London: Wells, Gardner, Darton, pp. 94–107 (original printing: New York : F.A. Stokes Company, [188-?])
        anonymous (1889), "Thomas the Rhymer", Scottish Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Legends, London: W. W. Gibbings & Co., pp. 93–97
        Reprinted:anonymous (1902), "Thomas the Rhymer", Scottish Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Legends, Strahan, Geoffrey, illus., London: Gibbings & Co., pp. 93–97. Also cf. the first tale "Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun"
        Powelstock, David (2011). Becoming Mikhail Lermontov: The Ironies of Romantic Individualism in Nicholas I's Russia. Northwestern University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0810127883.

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Tolkien refers to this as follows: "The road to fairyland is not the road to Heaven; nor even to Hell, I believe, though some have held that it may lead thither indirectly by the Devil's tithe," and subsequently quoting stanzas of the ballad "Thomas Rymer" beginning ""O see you not yon narrow road/" (text from Jamieson 1806, p. 9). In essay "On Fairy Stories" (orig. pub. 1947), reprinted in p.98 of Tolkien, J.R.R. (2002) [1947], "Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories)", A Tolkien Miscellany, SFBC, pp. 97–145, archived from the original (doc) on 2 April 2015 Jamieson, Robert (1806). Popular Ballads and Songs: From Tradition. Vol. 2. A. Constable and Company. pp. 3–43.: "True Thomas and Queen of Elfland"

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