Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland
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But the legend is still more curious from its being the first and most distinguished instance of a man alleged to have obtained supernatural knowledge by means of the fairies." Thomas the Rhymer, one of the earliest of Scotland's versifiers, lived at Erceldoune, by the Leader. Owing to his love of lonely wanderings and communing with nature, he acquired the reputation of being a master of magic. " Divested of fable," says Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, " we should probably find him standing forth as a... very prominent figure amidst the worth and talent of our countrymen." There, by the bogle-haunted Huntly bum, under the shade of the Eildon tree 104 FOLK LORE IN LOWLAND SCOTLAND (now gone, but a cairn marks the spot where it grew and flourished), the Laird of Learmont lay ruminating one day when there appeared before him a wondrously beautiful lady. An ancient baUad tells us — " Her skirt was o' the grass green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane Hung fifty silver bells and nine." She informed him she was the queen of fair Elf- land, and looking on her, True Thomas doffed his cap " and louted down to his knee," and she carried the learned poet away there and then from the magically-cloven Eildon's slope, show- ing him many strange sights as they journeyed and many devious routes, till the queen drew his attention — " .
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But the legend is still more curious from its being the first and most distinguished instance of a man alleged to have obtained supernatural knowledge by means of the fairies." Thomas the Rhymer, one of the earliest of Scotland's versifiers, lived at Erceldoune, by the Leader. Owing to his love of lonely wanderings and communing with nature, he acquired the reputation of being a master of magic. " Divested of fable," says Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, " we should probably find him standing forth as a... very prominent figure amidst the worth and talent of our countrymen." There, by the bogle-haunted Huntly bum, under the shade of the Eildon tree 104 FOLK LORE IN LOWLAND SCOTLAND (now gone, but a cairn marks the spot where it grew and flourished), the Laird of Learmont lay ruminating one day when there appeared before him a wondrously beautiful lady. An ancient baUad tells us — " Her skirt was o' the grass green silk, Her mantle o' the velvet fine ; At ilka tett of her horse's mane Hung fifty silver bells and nine." She informed him she was the queen of fair Elf- land, and looking on her, True Thomas doffed his cap " and louted down to his knee," and she carried the learned poet away there and then from the magically-cloven Eildon's slope, show- ing him many strange sights as they journeyed and many devious routes, till the queen drew his attention — " .
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