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    Sir Thomas de Ercildoun, better remembered as Thomas the Rhymer (fl. c. 1220 – 1298), also known as Thomas Learmont or True Thomas, was a Scottish laird...
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  • Thomas the Rhymer is a fantasy novel by American writer Ellen Kushner. It is based on the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, a piece of folklore in which Thomas...
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  • and the track "Thomas the Rhymer", which was released as a single, was seen by many as the quintessential Steeleye track. Another highlight is "The Mooncoin...
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    with the legends of Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin. The actual text spelling is "Quene of Elfame" and other variants in the witch trial transcripts. The supposition...
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    early novel of his Venusberg. Another visitor was Thomas the Rhymer (Thomas Ercildoune, c. 1220–1297). The Tannhauser Gate motif of film (Blade Runner, 1982)...
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  • up rhymer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rhymer may refer to: Rhymer (actor), an actor in a seasonal folk play Rhymer (poet), a bad poet Rhymer (rapper)...
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    ISBN 978-0553381849 The Privilege of the Sword (2006) – ISBN 978-1931520201 Thomas the Rhymer (1990) – ISBN 978-1557100467 St. Nicholas and the Valley Beyond:...
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  • exemplified in the medieval Thomas the Rhymer, who was carried off by the Queen of Elfland, and the Danish ballad Elvehøj (Elf Hill). The Tolkien scholar...
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    Eildon Hill (redirect from The Eildons)
    mentioned in the legend of Thomas the Rhymer. Some believe Thomas went under the hill itself, and certainly part of the ballad occurs in the vicinity. Sir...
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    Family legend has it that he descended from the 13th-century Scottish poet Thomas the Rhymer (also known as Thomas Learmonth). George Learmonth (Юрий Андреевич...
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    takes the titular character as her lover and leaves him with prophetic abilities. Although the romances and ballads associated with Thomas the Rhymer have...
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  • A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more...
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    Earl Haig (category Earldoms in the Peerage of the United Kingdom)
    by Thomas the Rhymer which predicted that there would always be a Haig in Bemersyde: 'Tyde what may betyde Haig shall be Haig of Bemersyde'. The dates...
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    "Get Up and Bar the Door"; and those with supernatural themes including "Thomas the Rhymer" (also known as "True Thomas" or "Thomas of Erceldoune") and...
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    Morrow, setting the stage for his later Godhead Trilogy. The book shared the 1991 World Fantasy Award with Ellen Kushner's Thomas the Rhymer. It was also...
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    Ruysbroeck (Jan van Ruysbroeck), Flemish mystic (died 1381) Unknown year – Thomas the Rhymer, Scottish laird and prophet Unknown – Palkuriki Somanatha, Telugu...
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  • Thomas Learmonth may refer to: Thomas the Rhymer (c.1220–c. 1298), 13th-century Scottish laird Thomas Livingstone Learmonth (1818–1903), Victorian colonist...
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  • Jones, based largely on the Anglo-Scottish Border ballads "Tam Lin" and "Thomas the Rhymer". It was first published in 1984 in the United States by Greenwillow...
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    Newbery's stepson, Thomas Carnan, was the first to use the term Mother Goose for nursery rhymes when he published a compilation of English rhymes, Mother Goose's...
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    such as Cibola, that the Spanish thought existed in South America Seven years spent by Thomas the Rhymer in the faerie kingdom in the eponymous British folk...
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    or the Northern British Thomas the Rhymer. Sometimes the everyday person is a woman, and the elf is a man, as in the northern British Tam Lin, The Elfin...
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  • Rings of Power to slow the passage of time. Elvish time, in The Lord of the Rings as in the medieval Thomas the Rhymer and the Danish Elvehøj (Elf Hill)...
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  • Best Books of 2005" from The New York Times and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006. The book tells the stories of the young Kafka Tamura, a bookish...
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  • glossed as "Elfland" or "Fairyland". In the medieval verse romance and the Scottish ballad of Thomas the Rhymer, the title character is spirited away by a...
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    narrates the tale of a woman overcome by her fairy lover, who in later versions of the story is unmasked as a mortal. "Thomas the Rhymer" shows Thomas escaping...
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  • of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers (The Wolf's...
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    scholar, her Uncle Jack, regarding the South's status in the 1950s. Tam Lin – Scottish border ballad Thomas the Rhymer – 13th-century Scottish laird and...
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  • The Other Wind is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, published by Harcourt in 2001. It is the fifth and final novel set in the...
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  • library. The Story of the Stone takes place in the Valley of the Sorrows where they set out to find the Laughing Prince, the murder suspect. The third book...
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    adapts the ballad to explore the implications of multiverse theory. List of the Child Ballads Gil Brenton The Sprig of Rosemary Thomas the Rhymer Jacobs...
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