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{{work}}{{Infobox book
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{{quote| ''If my love were an earthly knight,<br />▼
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As he's an elfin grey,<br />▼
| image = Page 161 illustration in More English Fairy Tales.png
I wad na gie my ain true-love<br />▼
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For nae lord that ye hae.'' }}▼
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| elevator pitch = The title character is taken by the Queen of the Fairies, and his true love (who is pregnant with his child) must rescue him.
| genre = [[Child Ballad]]
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▲''For nae lord that ye hae.'' }}
''[[Tam Lin]]'' is [[Child Ballad]] #39, stemming from the [[Oral Tradition]], and one of the most popular ballads, both as a song and as a source for literature. It is from the south of Scotland, and was first recorded in the mid-sixteenth century.
In a nutshell: Headstrong young Janet hears that the mysterious Tam Lin has forbidden all maidens to go to the wood called Carterhaugh (a real place; it's near Selkirk), on pain of... how shall we put this... no longer being maidens. She declares that she will go to Carterhaugh, but she has no sooner picked a rose<ref>
Some time later, a knight at Janet's father's court remarks that Janet looks knocked up. Janet agrees, but says the baby's father is not any of the men at her father's court. She returns to Carterhaugh and speaks to Tam Lin.
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The numerous variants collected by Francis Child can be found [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch039.htm here].
* [[All Hallows Eve]]▼
* [[The Fair Folk]]▼
* [[Fantasy Contraception]]▼
* [[Hair of Gold]]▼
* [[Human Sacrifice]]▼
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]▼
* [[Narrative Poem]]▼
* [[Rescue Romance]]▼
* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Inverted▼
* [[White Stallion]]▼
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Fire and Hemlock]]''
* [[Pamela Dean]]'s ''Tam Lin''
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* Elizabeth Marie Pope's ''[[The Perilous Gard]]''
* Elizabeth Bear's ''Blood & Iron''
* John Myers Myers's ''Silverlock'' contained a [[Shout
* While not a direct reference, there's a character called Tam Lin in Nancy Farmer's [[House of the Scorpion]].
* [[Charles
* Tam Lin has shown up on several occasions in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series.
* In ''[[Discworld]]'', both Magrat's rescue of Verence in ''[[
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* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Tam Lin undergoes a series of these after being pulled off his horse.
* [[Dude in Distress]]
▲* [[The Fair Folk]]
▲* [[Fantasy Contraception]]
▲* [[Hair of Gold]]
▲* [[Human Sacrifice]]
▲* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]
▲* [[Narrative Poem]]
▲* [[Rescue Romance]]
▲* [[Unspoken Plan Guarantee]]: Inverted.
▲* [[White Stallion]]
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