A maiden named janet travels to carterhaugh and picks a rose, causing tam lin to appear. I am sae fair and fu o flesh, im feard it be mysel. If you are looking for reference books on tam lin, focused on scholarly examination or written records of versions, please see the tam lin reference list instead. O i forbid you, maidens all, that wear gold in your hair, to come or go by carterhaugh, for young tam lin is there.
To find what is really going on with red roses, white horses, green mantles, and eyes of wood. It is also associated with a reel of the same name, also known as the glasgow reel. This the version played by katy adelson in youtube. Gender representations in the ballad of tam lin international. Provided to youtube by cdbaby tam lin rising gael one more day. Music explores the historic tunes associated with the ballad, listing of known recordings, and links to videos of performance of the ballad. The woods of carterhaugh are guarded by tam lin, a man who demands payment of all maidens who pass through, in the form of a belonging or their virginity. Tam lin is an old fairy ballad from the borderlands of scotland, concerning a mortal woman who encounters a mysterious man in a forbidden forest. The ballad of tam lin kathleen mcgowan the ancient legend of the elfin knight tam lin and the brave young maiden who rescues. Versions of the ballad of tam lin tam lin balladry. Alan garners red shift and the shifting ballad of tam lin.
In the translators eye on the significance of zhu lin. Provided to youtube by entertainment one distribution us tam lin steeleye span tonights the night. Below is an exploration of tam lin as book or play, that is, the influence of the ballad in other story telling formats. The material for analysis is the text of the medieval ballad tam lin as published in the child ballads. He questions her presence, to which she relies that carterhaugh is rightfully hers. Although the ballad genre is much admired, seldom is the artistry of individual ballads given the attention that it may deserve, perhaps under the assumption that popular ballads are artless, anonymous creations.
This website does not claim to have every version of tam lin, but should represents a good starting point for understanding the ballad and its variations. Largely composed from older versions of the supernatural ballad, burnss version of tam lin appeared for the first time in james johnsons scots musical museum 1796. If you are looking for tam lin influenced stories outside of traditional published works. Tam lin the glasgow reel sheet music for violin pdf. The apart of tam lin fits very comfortably on a c whistle, without any halfholes if you cross finger the bflat, but the bpart takes you up to d in the 3rd octave, which, if you. Thus, the aspect of the oral tradition on which this paper will focus is the ballad tradition and on two scottish ballads in particular, tam lin 39a. The ballad of tarn lin exists in numerous versions. Tam or tamas lin also called tamlane, tamlin, tambling, tomlin, tam lien, tam aline, tam lyn, or tam lane is a character in a legendary ballad originating from the scottish borders. Tam or tamas lin is a character in a legendary ballad originating from the scottish borders. Tam lin is catnip to women who write celticinflected fantasy of the kind i imprinted on as a teenager you get to pull from all sorts of old. The story revolves around the rescue of tam lin by his true love from the queen of the fairies. I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair to travel to carterhaugh for young tam lin is there none that go by carterhaugh but they leave him a pledge either their. For childs version 39a, an explanation of the scottish terms used in the ballad.