The excellent old Scottish song of the blaeberry courtship; to which is added The crook & plaid

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Title

The excellent old Scottish song of the blaeberry courtship; to which is added The crook & plaid

Alternative Title

The crook & plaid

Publisher

[No Place] : Printed for the Booksellers

Date

1870-1885 per National Library of Scotland

Extent

8 pages

Identifier

Is Part Of

Chapbook #12 in a bound collection of 17 chapbooks

Type

ballads & songs

Abstract

Two songs about love. The first is the story of the love between a Highland lad and a Lowland girl. The girls’ father is against the match and disinherits her when she decides she runs off with him. In the beginning, it looks like she has made the wrong choice as she is forced to walk and beg for them both on the way to the Highlands, but when they arrive it turns out he is a laird and she is treated as the lady of a great estate. In the end they both go back to visit and reconcile with the father. The second song is a short ballad about a young girl’s love for a shepherd. This chapbook is part of a collection of chapbooks produced in Aberdeen which have been bound together in this volume.

Subject

Courtship and Marriage
Highlands

Source

Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario

Format

JPEGs and PDF derived from master file, which was scanned from the original book in 24-bit color at 600 dpi in TIFF format using an Epson Expression 10000XL scanner.

Rights

In the public domain; For high quality reproductions, contact Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph libaspc@uoguelph.ca 519-824-4120 Ext 53413

Contributor

Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Citation

“The excellent old Scottish song of the blaeberry courtship; to which is added The crook & plaid,” Scottish Chapbooks, accessed November 8, 2024, https://scottishchapbooks.lib.uoguelph.ca/items/show/509.

Geolocation

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