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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20040124
Author:WILLIAM CHISHOLM

MORE than 200 years ago Sir Walter Scott used welcome breaks from his duties as sheriff of Selkirkshire to assemble a collection of ballad verse and song that would earn him fame and fortune in North America and across Europe.

Armed with a quill pen, ink and ample supplies of paper, Scott travelled the Borders countryside on horseback, seeking out the minstrels and reciters who provided rural communities with their mainstream entertainment in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Many of the romantic ballads and poetic tales of bloody battles had survived for hundreds of years, passing from ...

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