Lots of people conflate Thomas with Tam Lin. But they are two different ballads and two different stories (and two different brilliant novels by hot formerly-young writers, one by
Ellen Kushner and one by
Pamela Dean....;).
Thanks to
roaming for tipping me off to
tamnonlinear's
web page explicitly comparing the two.
And now I really must go pack for that week in Boston. I must not read and respond to LJ posts, and I certainly must not write any more of them....!