Scottish Myths & Legends
Thomas the Rhymer
by Donald
Thomas Learmonth from Ercildoune (now Earlston), better known as Thomas the Rhymer was a 13th century Laird, poet and a supposed prophet.
Legend tells us how Thomas the Rhymer went out walking one ...
Topics:
Fairy, Learmonth, Myth, Thomas the Rymer
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