Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

238. Glenlogie or Jean o Bethalnie

P. 346. I b. A copy of this version has been found at Abbotsford, in a portfolio labelled 'The Rever's Wedding and other important papers.' There are a few differences of reading.

   In the stanza after 1, line 3, be richer, line 4, maun hae.
21. Oh whare.
22,4. gang: again soon.
31. he cam: gae.
32. gae.
33. my maister's.
34. stop till.
51. Gae: gar.
53. lang or ere.
54. O wanting.
63. quo she.
72. But wanting.

P. 338 b, 2d paragraph. As to the name Melville, Mr. Walker of Aberdeen remarks: If Buchan's story (given in his notes) of the Glenlogie incident were correct, the maiden's name must have been Seaton, and not Melville, the Seatons and Urquharts being the only two names which in historical times could be called lairds of Meldrum or Bethelnie.

To be Corrected in the Print.

339 b, lines 5, 6. Read Belhelvie, the name of an Aberdeenshire parish.

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