Willie is drowned in Yarrow according to the older (southern) tradition, A; also B, C. In the northern copies, D>, E, F, with which G, H, agree, the scene is transferred to Gamrie, on the coast of the Moray Frith, where "there is no water that Willie could have been drowned in but the sea, on his way along the sands to the old kirk." In No, 216, a western variety of the same story, Willie is drowned in the Clyde.
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