Tam Lin

Versions of Tam Lin include:

Illustration by John D. Batten for "Tamlane" in More English Fairy Tales (1894).

Ballads

• "Tam Lin" in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ed. by Francis James Child (19th Century).
  • Variant A (O I forbid you, maidens a')
  • Variant B (I forbid ye, maidens a')
  • Variant C (She's prickt hersell and prind hersell)
  • Variant D (O all you ladies young and gay)
  • Variant E (Lady Margaret is over gravel green)
  • Variant F (She's taen her petticoat by the band)
  • Variant G (Take warning, a' ye ladies fair)
  • Variant H (I forbid ye, maidens a')
  • Variant I (O I forbid ye, maidens a')
  • Variant J (The night, the night is Halloween)
  • Variant J2 (The maid that sits in Katherine’s Hall)
  • Variant K (Leady Margat stands in her boor-door)
  • Variant L (I charge ye, a' ye ladies fair)
  • Variant M (My father was a noble knight)

Prose adaptations

See also: w:Tam Lin#Adaptations

• "Wild Robin" in Fairy Book by Rebecca Sophia Clarke
• "Elphin Irving, the Fairies' Cupbearer" in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry by Allan Cunningham (1887).
• "Tamlane" in More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs (1894).