| B. b. |
is a with stanzas 3, 12-15 omitted, and
"a few alterations, some of them given from
the recitation of an old woman." "Buchan's
version differs little from the way the old
woman sang the ballad." The old woman's
variations, so far as adopted, are certainly of
the most trifling.
12. I am.
21. Is she.
71. And she.
161. Ye've come.
162. And ye.
17. Evidently by Christie:
'Fair maid, I love thee as my life,
But ye shall gae hame a lovd wedded wife.' |
