P. 335. #D a#, excepting the title and the first stanza, is in a hand
not Motherwell’s.
#I a# first appeared in the second edition of the Minstrelsy, 1803, II,
245. The “gentleman residing near Langholm,” from whom Scott derived the
stanzas of a modern cast, was a Mr Beattie, of Meikledale, and Scott
suspected that they might be the work of some poetical clergyman or
schoolmaster: letter to W. Laidlaw, January 21, 1803, cited by
Carruthers, Abbotsford Notanda, appended to R. Chambers’s Life of Scott,
1871, p. 121 f.
336 b. ‘Den förtrollade prinsessan,’ Lagus, Nyländska Folkvisor, I, 67,
No 17.