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Title: The Dowie Houms o'Yarrow
Author: Anonymous
Type: Ballad
Genre: Traditional
Plot Summary: A warrior is killed in a battle against nine men. His lover discovers his body: ‘She kiss’d his cheek, she kam’d his hair,/As oft she did before, O,/She drank the red blood frae him ran,/On the dowie houms o’ Yarrow.’ Wordsworth referred to this legend in his poem of 1814 ‘Yarrow Visited’
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Home | Title detail page
Title: The Dowie Houms o'Yarrow
Author: Anonymous
Type: Ballad
Genre: Traditional
Plot Summary: A warrior is killed in a battle against nine men. His lover discovers his body: ‘She kiss’d his cheek, she kam’d his hair,/As oft she did before, O,/She drank the red blood frae him ran,/On the dowie houms o’ Yarrow.’ Wordsworth referred to this legend in his poem of 1814 ‘Yarrow Visited’
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009