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The Black Dwarf

by Sir Walter Scott

Published 1849

The Black Dwarf, is set in the Liddesdale hills, an area which Scott knew intimately from the time he had spent hunting ballads for his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The plot itself draws on a number of Border Ballads. The adventures of Hobbie Elliot, the pillage of Heughfott, appeal to the Black Dwarf for help, gathering of forces, and the 'siege' of Westburnflat parallel events in the ballads 'Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead' and 'The Fray of Support'.

FictionHistoryBothwell Bridge, Battle of, Scotland, 1679British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction, historicalFiction, historical, generalScotland, fictionMarriageFrance, fiction

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