This ballad has only with much hesitation been separated from the foregoing. Versions A and B have one correspondence with the Scandinavian Ribold ballad not found in 'Earl Brand,' — the strict watch kept over the lady. But notwithstanding the resemblances to the Ribold story, there is a difference in the larger part of the details, and all the 'Erlinton' ballads have a fortunate ending. The copy in Scott's Minstrelsy, in, 235, ed. 1803, was compounded from A* and a closely related version.
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