Katharine Jaffray
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Katharine Jaffray is Child ballad 221. It exists in several variants.
[edit] Synopsis
A woman is wooed by a man who asks her family for leave. Another man comes and wins the consent of her family but does not bother to tell her until the wedding day. Her original lover comes to the wedding and carries her off. Sometimes there is a bloody fight.
Some variants end with a warning the Englishmen should not seek Scottish brides.
[edit] Adaptations
This is similar to the Lochinvar tale included in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion; indeed, in one variant, the hero is named Lochinvar.
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