The Elfin Knight

Versions of The Elfin Knight include:

Vernon Hill's illustration of this ballad.

• "The Elfin Knight" in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ed. by Francis James Child (19th Century).
  • Variant A (My plaid awa, my plaid awa)
  • Variant B (My plaid awa, my plaid awa)
  • Variant C (There stands a knicht at the tap o yon hill)
  • Variant D (The Elfin knight stands on yon hill)
  • Variant E (The Elfin Knight sits on yon hill)
  • Variant F (Did ye ever travel twixt Berwick and Lyne?)
  • Variant G (Can you make me a cambrick shirt)
  • Variant H (Come, pretty Nelly, and sit thee down by me)
  • Variant I (A Lady wonned on yonder hill)
  • Variant J (Now you are a-going to Cape Ann)
  • Variant K (My father left me three acres of land)
  • Variant L (My father gave me an acre of land)
  • Variant M (As I went up to the top o yon hill)
• "The Task" in A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes (ed.) by Sabine Baring-Gould (1895).