Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

He then published an idiosyncratic three-volume set of collected ballads of his adopted home region, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

In writing Old Mortality Scott drew upon the knowledge he had acquired from his researches into ballads on the subject for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Category: Border ballads

In 1801 Hogg was recruited to collect ballads for Walter Scott's collection The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and met Scott himself the following year.

Border ballads, like all traditional ballads, were traditionally sung unaccompanied.

The supernatural is a common theme in Border ballads, as are recountings of raids and battles.

Category: Border ballads

Although relatively neglected in the first folk revival North West England had a rich tradition of balladry stretching back at least to the 17th century and sharing in the tradition of Border ballads, including perhaps the finest ‘ The Ballad of Chevy Chase ', thought to have been composed by the Lancashire born minstrel Richard Sheale.

Border ballads were a major part of those collected by Francis James Child and make up most of the sixth volume of his ten volume collection of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 98 ).

The stories of legendary border reivers like Kinmont Willie Armstrong were often retold in folk-song as Border ballads.

Housman himself acknowledged the influence of the songs of William Shakespeare, the Scottish Border ballads and Heinrich Heine, but specifically denied any influence of Greek and Latin classics in his poetry.

Category: Border ballads

Border ballads were a major part of those collected by Francis James Child and make up most of the sixth volume of his ten volume collection of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads ( 1882 – 98 ).

In 2003 June Tabor stimulated interest in the Border ballads with her highly regarded album An Echo of Hooves.

This violent history is also commemorated in many Border ballads, another common theme of which is the supernatural, as in the ballads of Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin.

Many Border ballads were collected by Sir Walter Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

Category: Border ballads

Category: Border ballads

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England ( 1707 ), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

The Complaynt is an important source for information on Border ballads and it contains some of the first references to important ballads such as Tam Lin, Froggy would a-wooing go and The Ballad of Chevy Chase.