The Balladists
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The Balladists is by John Geddie. The preface says that not much more has been attempted in these pages than to extract the marrow of the Scottish Ballad Minstrelsy. The preface says that these pages will have served their purpose if they help to awaken, or to renew, a relish for the contents of the Ballad Book.
The text says that Walter Scott, the last of the minstrels, was himself not above mending the strains gathered from the lips of old women, hill shepherds, and the wandering tribe of cadgers and hawkers. The text says that a favourite story has, time beyond knowledge, captivated the imagination and drawn the tears of ballad-lovers, under various titles including Earl Brand and the Child of Elle among the rest. In the best-known Scots version, the text says, it is the lady-mother who gives the alarm that the maiden has fled under cloud of night with her lover.
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- John Geddie
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