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	Thomas the Rhymer
		Thomas the Rhymer is a British folk song traceable back at least as far as the 13th century.
		Thomas stayed at a party in the castle, until she told him to return with her, coming into the mortal realm only to realise seven years had passed (a significant number in magic).
		Thomas of Ercildoune was an historical figure, as records have been found naming his son as the son of "Thomas Rymour of Ercildoune".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thomas_the_Rhymer.html (331 words)

	Legends - Ballads and Broadsides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas of Erceldoune, otherwise Thomas the Rhymer, and in the popular style True Thomas, has had a fame as a seer, which, though progressively narrowed, is, after the lapse of nearly or quite six centuries, far from being extinguished.
		Thomas the Rhymer: A Commentary on the Legend, by J.A. Harris at Mythopoetica.com.
		Thomas the Rhymer - Prophet, Seer, and one of Scotland's earliest Poets by Marilyn Cameron at Folklore and Legends.
	www.legends.dm.net /ballads/thomas.html (446 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas the Rhymer (also Thomas Rhymer or Thomas Rymer) is the better-known name of Thomas Learmonth of Erceldoune, a 13th Century Scottish soothsayer.
		Thomas was born in Erceldoune (also spelt Ercildoune - presently Earlston), Scottish Borders, sometime in the 13th century, and has a reputation as the author of many prophetic verses.
		Thomas stayed at a party in the castle until she told him to return with her, coming back into the mortal realm only to realise that seven years (a significant number in magic) had passed.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_the_Rhymer (829 words)

	Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer
		Despite his various courtly flirtations and encounters with high-born ladies, Thomas pays suit to Elspeth, a young girl from the rural countryside who, orphaned and living with her brother, has also latched onto Gavin and his wife Meg as surrogate parents.
		Thomas agrees to sell seven years of his life to be her consort and minstrel.
		She, like Gavin, tells the tale in the pragmatic, no-nonsense manner of hardworking rural folk, and their voices are both perfectly suited for grounding the magical nature of his disappearance, bookending his experiences with the simple stuff of normal life.
	www.rambles.net /kushner_rhymer.html (680 words)

	Scotch Myth - Thomas the Rhymer
		Thomas the Rhymer is Scotland 's answer to Nostradamus.
		Thomas the Rhymer, or Thomas Learmont, was a 13th century poet and seer who lived in Erceldoune, a part of Berwickshire now known as Earlstoun.
		Thomas himself is also believed to have been the author of "Sir Tristrem ", edited by Scott and reputedly the oldest known piece of Scots poetry.
	www.firstfoot.com /scotchmyth/thomastherhymer.htm (374 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas the Rhymer (also Thomas Rhymer or Thomas Rymer) is the better-known name of Thomas of Erceldoune, a (Click link for more info and facts about 13th Century) 13th Century (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish soothsayer.
		They tell how Thomas either kissed or had sex with the Queen of (The enchanted realm of fairies) Fairyland and either rode with her or was otherwise transported to Fairyland.
		Thomas stayed at a party in the castle until she told him to return with her, coming back into the mortal realm only to realise that seven years (a significant number in (Any art that invokes supernatural powers) magic) had passed.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_the_Rhymer.htm (752 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer (c1220-c1297) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas lived at Erceldoune (Earlstone) in Berwickshire and is famous as a seer whose predictions supposedly included the death of Alexander III, the Battle of Bannockburn and the Union of the Crowns.
		Known as "True Thomas" and "Thomas the Rhymer", he was also the reputed author of a romance of Tristram edited by Sir Walter Scott from a French source in 1804.
		The name of Thomas the Rhymer is best known through the popular ballad, originally dating from the fifteenth century, in which he spends seven years with the Queen of Elfland (a story which is conflated in some Border sources with that of Tam Lin).
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~crumey/true_thomas.html (157 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer
		It cannot be doubted that Thomas was a remarkable and important person in his own time, since, very shortly after his death, we find him celebrated as a prophet and as a poet.
		After seven years’ residence he was permitted to return to the earth, to enlighten and astonish his countrymen by his prophetic powers; still, however, remaining bound to return to his royal mistress, when she should intimate her pleasure.
		Accordingly, while Thomas was making merry with his friends in the Tower of Ercildoune, a person came running in, and told, with marks of fear and astonishment, that a hart and hind had left the neighbouring forest, and were, composedly and slowly, parading the street of the village.
	www.electricscotland.com /kids/stories/rhymer.htm (500 words)

	Ellen Kushner, Thomas The Rhymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas is a mortal man, a harper by trade, who shows up one day at the cottage of an elderly couple, Gavin and Meg, in the midst of a ferocious storm.
		Thomas helps out around the cottage, but eventually it's time for him to move on (back to court to ply his trade to the King and Queen), and so he says farewell to his kindly host and hostess.
		Thomas serves out his time in Elfland, and is free to go back to the land of the living at the end of his seven years of indentured servitude.
	www.greenmanreview.com /thomas_the_rhymer.html (1635 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer/ Transformation - www.ezboard.com
		When thomas the rhymer is changed repeatedly from one thing to the next it is simply to illustrate the supernatural hold that the queen of the faeries has on him from the inception of the tale.
		The second is about True Thomas who is taken off to Faerie by the queen and serves her well for seven years, at the end of which she gives him the ability to always tell the truth.
		Thomas the Rhymer (or "True Thomas") is a man given a magical apple as a gift from the Faerie Queen that allows him to be a truth teller.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2002/aug2002/thomrhymer_pg1.html (1877 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The uniform tradition bears, that his surname was Lermont, or Learmont; and that the appellation of The Rhymer was conferred on him in consequence of his poetical compositions.
		We are better able to ascertain the period at which Thomas of Ercildoune lived, being the latter end of the thirteenth century.
		The popular tale bears that Thomas was carried off, at an early age, to the Fairy Land, where he acquired all the knowledge which made him afterwards so famous.
	www.scotkids.com /kids/stories/rhymer.htm (500 words)

	Robert Kirk - Walker Between Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas of Ercledoune, therefore, was renowned as a prophet during his own lifetime (and in his own country), and printed versions of his accurate predictions were circulated after his death, some still active as late as the nineteenth century.
		Thomas is also said to be the author of the earliest version of Tristan and Iseult, and may be rightly said to have had a far-reaching effect upon literature and upon the common imagination for the last 700 years.
		Thomas is bound to the Queen for seven years (a period that appears in the ballads frequently in connection with vows, and applies to the old custom of 'trial' marriages derived from pre-Christian cultural patterns based upon inner or magical laws).
	www.dreampower.com /Kirk_WBW/pg_138.htm (3689 words)

	Thomas the Rymer or True Thomas
		Thomas the Rhymer, was a famous Scottish prophet who is also known as Thomas of Ercildoune, Lord Learmont and True Thomas.
		A version of the romance or ballad of Thomas the Rhymer may have been available as early as the fourteenth century.
		Thomas took his leave from the castle and was never seen again.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /folklore/thomasr.html (323 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas still wears the green and blue travellers garb he was captured in.
		Thomas the Rhymer is, quite simply, the greatest Arterinnish Song Mage ever to have lived.
		She led him down a path lined with hawthorn trees, in whose branches sat a host of ravens, but so intent was Thomas upon the lady he accompanied that he did not heed these omens until far, far too late.
	crpp0001.uqtr.uquebec.ca /w4/npc/Human6/ThomastheRhymer.html (600 words)

	Famous Scots - Thomas the Rhymer
		Although some of the stories relating to Thomas the Rhymer may be fanciful, there is firm documentary evidence of "Thomas Rimor de Ercildoun" (the modern Earlston, in Berwickshire) witnessing documents in the 1260s.
		Thomas' prophesies were so revered that they were consulted by the Jacobites before the Uprisings in both 1715 and 1745.
		Thomas is believed to have also written a story "Sir Tristrem" which Walter Scott also edited.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamrhymer.htm (250 words)

	A_Fairy_Went_A-Marketing
		Thomas was transformed as well, his rough country clothes now a silken suit, and on his feet satin shoes.
		Thomas was astonished at everything he saw: the fairy ladies with their wings, the pixie men with their red caps, the nuggles and the boggles and the fairy fiddlers who played tunes that made the heart to sing and the feet to dance.
		Thomas of Ercildoune found his way back home, and his friends and family were surprised to see him alive, for he had been gone seven long years, and they thought him dead for sure.
	lair2000.net /fairy_stories/stories/Thomas_The_Rhymer.html (1613 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer, Poet and seer
		He was said to have been captivated by the Queen of the Fairies in the Eildon Hills, but the three days he spent with her was actually three years.
		On parting, she gave him the gift of prophesy, apparently allowing him to foretell Flodden and the Union; his predictions were eventually published in 1603 and were enduringly popular.
		Thomas vanished one day, and was said to have gone back to the fairy queen.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /thomas-rhymer.htm (86 words)

	Being Numen: Essays, Articles and Information on Myth, Culture and Spirituality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Firstly, the ballad, called either "Thomas the Rhymer" or "True Thomas" or Thomas and the Fairy Queen provides the narrator a way to detail the protocol of the Faerie court to his audience, and provides the audience with a human (hence familiar) glance into the world of Faerie.
		In the latter two, a connection is made between the "Thomas the Rhymer" tale and another scottish "Tom" the figure captured by the Faerie Queen in "Tam Lin".
		Thomas of Erceldoune, whose adventures with the fairy queen are here narrated, was a legendary character, to whom were ascribed several prophecies,which passed for a long time under his name, similar to those of Merlin.
	www.mythopoetica.com /numinous/tom.php (1435 words)

	Thomas Rymer
		Thomas of Erceldoune's prophetic power was a gift of the queen of the elves; the modern elves, equally those of northern Europe and of Greece, resembling in respect to this attribute the nymphs of the ancient Hellenic mythology.
		Thomas, having found favor with the queen of Eltland, was taken with her to that country, and there he remained more than three [seven] years.
		Thomas, in A 15, is now admonished that he must hold his tongue, for if be speaks a word he will never get back to his own country ; in R 44 he is told to answer none but the elf-queen, whatever may be said to him, and this course lie takes in B 12.
	www.tam-lin.org /texts/thomas.html (5769 words)

	British Virgin Islands - Island Sun Newspaper
		THANKSGIVING SERVICE HELD FOR THOMAS W. A service of thanksgiving was held at the Road Town Methodist Church on Saturday March 9th in celebration of the life of the late Thomas Wellington Rhymer.
		Rhymer is being remembered as a faithful husband and father, a hard worker who assisted many farmers as they took turns working the ground to plant their crops and burn coal.
		Rhymer was a member of the Road Town Methodist Church and attended regularly with his wife until her passing and subsequently until poor health prevented him from doing so.
	www.islandsun.com /2002-March/23032002/local5-v7i09.html (409 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Thomas the Rhymer: A Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Their mutual attraction is frustrated when Thomas suddenly disappears, and for seven years is held captive by the silken Queen of Elfland, who releases him with a questionable gift, the inability to speak anything but the truth.
		Thomas the Rhymer's carefree life as a wandering minstrel changes forever when a fateful encounter with the Queen of Elfland takes him from the world for seven years, returning him unmarked by age and gifted with the inability to lie.
		She laid a couple of spells on Thomas, but mostly all they did was copulate, and I needed either for her to be more interesting or to feel more of why Thomas was infatuated with her.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812514459?v=glance (2071 words)

	Heroes&Famous Scots (T) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Telford was born and brought up in Westkirk, which is in the town of Dumfries, on the border with England.
		Though Sir Tristrem was not printed until 1804 by the world famous Scottish author Sir Walter Scott, the author of the old metrical romance is thought to have been Thomas the Rhymer, poet and prophet from Earlston, Berwick, and the reason he is included here is because at that time Berwick was indeed Scotland.
		In the early fifteenth century, the prophecies of Thomas had appeared in literary form, Romance and Prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune, which were then edited in the year of 1875 by J.A.H. Murray.
	www.royalhouseofstewart.org.uk /heroest.htm (1509 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Thomas the Rhymer.
		Thomas Learmont, of Ercildoune, a Scotchman, in the reign of Alexander III., and contemporary with Wallace.
		Sir Walter Scott calls him the Merlin of Scotland.”; He was magician, prophet, and poet, and is to return again to earth at some future time when Shrove Tuesday and Good Friday change places.
		Care must be taken not to confound “Thomas the Rhymer” with Thomas Rymer, the historiographer and compiler of the Fœdera.
	www.bartleby.com /81/16434.html (112 words)

	Thomas the Rhymer : Entertaining Comments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		True Thomas the seer and Thomas the Rhymer), and retells them in a fascinating, thoroughly modern style.
		Thomas does go on a long, strange trip, but the focus is as much on how his life impacts the people important to him as it is on his experiences in Elfland.
		Also, seeing Thomas before and after his journey through the eyes of others reveals the extent of the change in him more thoroughly than if we remained in his head.
	queerpopculture.com /entertainment/asinsearch_0553586971 (273 words)

	Books : Thomas the Rhymer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But when the bold and gifted young Thomas the Rhymer awakens the desire of the powerful Queen of Elfland, he finds that words are not enough to keep him from his fate.
		The story itself is a retelling of the legend of Thomas the Rhymer, of which - I admit - I have never...
		Thomas appears one day at the door of an older and childless couple in the country who take him in and begin to love him as a son.
	www.cellphonegamesdownload.com /ItemId/0553586971 (648 words)

	AllRefer.com - Thomas of Erceldoune (English Literature To 1499, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Thomas of Erceldoune, English Literature To 1499, Biographies
		He supposedly predicted the battle of Bannockburn and the accession of James VI to the English throne.
		The poetical romance of Thomas and the Elf-Queen, attributed to him but actually composed about 1400, describes the events surrounding his receipt of the gift of prophecy.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/ThomasEr.html (230 words)

	Welcome to The BVI Beacon Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born to Catherine Francis and Thomas Rhymer in 1909, the young Rhymer attended primary school on Tortola before leaving to work in the sugar cane fields of Santo Domingo at the age of 18.
		He was soon called home to his ailing mother, as he had at a younger age when he left school to care for his younger siblings and help his mother at the distillery at which she worked.
		Rhymer is survived by his daughter Ethlin Rhymer Smith; his sons, Vanley, Stanley, Danley and Ottley; his sisters, Idalia Kirby, Rosita Hodge, Maude Henley and Josephine Thompson; his brothers, Ceto and Rupert; 11 grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
	www.bvibeacon.com /031402/obitu031402.html (242 words)

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