WorkSir Walter Scott

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ( 1803] Inferred

InferredFuller names the ballad explicitly as 'Helen of Kirconnel Lee.' This is the well-known traditional Scottish ballad 'Helen of Kirkconnell' / 'Fair Helen of Kirkconnell,' telling the story of Helen Irving, killed by a rival suitor's arrow while shielding her lover Adam Fleming.

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Documented 1843

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II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

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Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“It seems to have been suggested by remembrance of the beautiful ballad, _Helen of Kirconnel Lee_, which once she loved to recite, and in tones that would not have sent a chill to the heart from which it came.”

Also reprinted in Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Counted once, at its first appearance.

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller names the ballad explicitly as 'Helen of Kirconnel Lee.' This is the well-known traditional Scottish ballad 'Helen of Kirkconnell' / 'Fair Helen of Kirkconnell,' telling the story of Helen Irving, killed by a rival suitor's arrow while shielding her lover Adam Fleming.