[APPENDIX]
THE GREAT SILKIE OF SULE SKERRIE ([p. 63])
Since the version given in the text was in type, my friend Mr. A. Francis Steuart of Edinburgh has kindly pointed out to me the following fuller and better variant of the ballad, which was unknown to Professor Child. It may be found in R. Menzies Fergusson’s Rambling Sketches in the Far North and Orcadian Musings (1883), pp. 140-141, whence I have copied it, only adding the numbers to the stanzas.
THE GREY SELCHIE OF SHOOL SKERRY
1.
In Norway lands there lived a maid,
‘Hush, ba, loo lillie,’ this maid began;
‘I know not where my baby’s father is,
Whether by land or sea does he travel in.’
2.