Grierson of Lag

Grierson of Lag

traditional ballad

Ballad of Sir Robert, the Laird of Lag, who captures a hill lad to make him tell where Tam Glen is; he refuses; Robert kills him, to horror of his men; mother comes and cleans body

Poem by W. Cuthbertson

Headpiece by Nellie Baxter

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Winter 1896-1897

Public Domain
Toronto Metropolitan University Library Archives and Special Collections

Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.

English

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