Hey Folks!

If you're looking for a neat new recording of Tam Lin, you might want to check out Thumpermonkey Lives! who has a version available for free download at their site (and they've given me permission to add it to mine soon as I get a round tuit ( Read more... )

I've made the following updates to the website:

1- The unidentified version of Tam Lin has been identified! Amanda, the person who sent it to me originally, has written again to say she's tracked down the identity of the singer. It's by Alastair McDonald from the album Heroes & Legends of Scotland. Website has been updated to reflect the new ( Read more... )

Happy Halloween (in some time zones, or by the time you're reading this if you're nearer mine and went to bed at a more reasonable time that I will). I'm celebrating by making some of the updates I really need to make to the website, as opposed to the general maintenance that I will get around to Real Soon Now ( Read more... )

A few links I've found while web surfing (I have neither read these nor updated the website to add the links):

The Tale of Tam Lin, the Elf Knight by Bridget Haggerty
Summer's Lease by eluki bes shahar
Tam-lin By E H Hopkinson

Anything else recent out there of interest?

Blood and Iron by matociquala hits the stores today! Go buy many copies and draw little hearts around the url for my website in the acknowledgements. Or just read it and enjoy it, because it is a hell of a ride ( Read more... )

Hey folks, I've added a few small links to the website, so here are some things you should know about if you don't already:

Right now I just have some links to pass along:

- The award-winning author Elizabeth Bear (that'd be our own matociquala) has a new Tam Lin-related book coming out in June 2006, titled Blood and Iron. The first three chapters are ( Read more... )

did you know I have a website? I sometimes forget myself. It's time I remembered.

Well folks, it's time and past I put some effort into cleaning up the website. Now I have the added incentive of a deadline, as I'd like to have the old heap of electrons spinning in proper order before Blood and Iron comes out, as matociquala has put a very nice note in the ( Read more... )

Below the cut is my first rough-pass transcription of the version of Tam Lin found a internet archive.

The site attributes it to Maureen S. O'Brien. I've found a likely website for the author (hey, geez, she's geeky and fannish and a filker, someone here has to know her. And yes, I looked for an lj associated with her email address, none found.), ( Read more... )

A few things I've found while wandering about other places on the web, posting here for your enjoyment and my remembering:

Sung-Spoken version of Tam Lin (mp3). Found as a link, no information on source (went up a directory, says Maureen S. O'Brien, but websearches are inconclusive. Must add to website, research, link, tra la tra la).

To Janet ( Read more... )

Hey folks, medievalist has pointed out that Ewan MacColl's version of Tam Lin is available for free (until Nov. 23rd) from Smithsonian Global Archive. It has some different verses than I've heard before.

I was going to transcribe the words from the recording, but the Smithsonian collection includes the liner notes (Tam Lin is on page 5), so I'm posting them ( Read more... )