Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

86. Young Benjie

Scott's version in the Border Minstrelsy, 1803, in, 251, contains the whole of A* except the first stanza. It has about twice as many verses as A*, and the other half might well have been supplied by the editor. Scott's title 'Young Benjie' is here retained, and some of the additional stanzas are given in the Notes.

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