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Branwen
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Edited Sep 26, 2009, 04:00
Re: OT: Wells and folklore
Sep 25, 2009, 17:50
Probably the only reason I think it a lothian story is because I've only heard in Musselburgh, Dunbar, and Edinburgh. That just means I haven't heard storytellers in the other areas that might be possible locations, of course.

I wasn't aware of those other possibilities but am looking at them for some clue just now. It being such an old story, it would have been told and localised in the way of the storytellers, all over Scotland. Localisation of stories is just part of the storytellers craft, but can lead to one tale being ascribed to hundreds of places, hence arthur being buried under so many hills.

It's called "the wearie well at the worlds end" in the oldest stories though, these tales resembling the cuthilldorie story, not the false knight stories, and the goblin is a frog that turns into a prince. There is a world's end near the edinburgh weary well - it's a pub!
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