Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

230. The Slaughter of the Laird of Mellerstain

This fragment tells of the murder of John Haitlie, of Mellerstain, in 1603. Mellerstain stands on a rising ground near the right bank of the Eden. The lady of stanza 1 was Marion Lumsden, Haitlie's wife.

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