#BalladTrail

The Douglas Tragedy: Searching for Stones and Shadows in the Scottish Borders

by Mark Nicol | Aug 7, 2022 | Videos

Of all Sir Walter Scott’s Border Ballads “The Douglas Tragedy” is the only one with an exact geographical location in the story. But the places in this stirring romantic tragedy have been lost to the sands of time. Today I go looking for them, in the beautiful...