Erceldoune
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A real Thomas Rymer of Erceldoune witnessed an undated deed of Peter de Haga, early in the thirteenth century.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
Learmont is usually given as the Erceldoune family name; a branch of the family owned Dairsie in Fifeshire, and were a kind of hereditary provosts of St. Andrews.
From A Collection of Ballads by Andrew Lang
Thomas the Rhymer of Erceldoune was at first an object of interest to Scott because of the ballad of True Thomas and the traditions concerning him that floated about the countryside.
From Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball
The Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, printed from five manuscripts.
From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland
This leads us to the consideration of three English metrical Romances, which in all probability are derived from French sources, containing accounts of the visits to fairy-land made by Thomas of Erceldoune, Launfal, and Orfeo.
From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
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