Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

190. Jamie Telfer in the Fair Dodhead

A* is from a manuscript written about the beginning of the nineteenth century and now in the possession of Mr. William Macmath. Scott's copy (Minstrelsy, 1802, 1, 80) has a few more stanzas than A, and attributes the honor of the rescue to the Scotts of Teviotdale, but it resembles A closely, even in details of phraseology. Scott's title, 'Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead,' makes Jamie proprietor of the estate, whereas 'in' signifies, according to Scottish usage, that he was a tenant simply. The situation of the Dodhead is uncertain.

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