Rhymer

Ellen Kushner’s novel Thomas the Rhymer is a retelling of the old Scottish ballad of the same name – the story of a Harper who, after kissing the Queen of Elfland (and in some versions, more), is spirited away to Faerie where he lives as her lover/slave for seven years.

Thomas the Rhymer by Ellen Kushner 2008

Thomas of Ercildoun -- called the Rhymer -- supposed by Sir Walter Scott, but erroneously, as is now believed, to be the author of "Sir Tristram."

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

[1] Thomas of Ercildoune, better known as the Rhymer, lived in the reign of Alexander III.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

Thomas of Erceldoune, in Lauderdale, called the Rhymer, on account of his producing a poetical romance on the

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

The amour of Thomas the Rhymer is a mediaeval analogue of the Idaean legend.

The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878

No more of the proposed tale was ever written; but the author's purpose was, that it should turn upon a fine legend of superstition, which is current in the part of the Borders where he had his residence; where, in the reign of Alexander III. of Scotland, that renowned person Thomas of Hersildoune, called the Rhymer, actually flourished.

The Waverley 1877

No more of the proposed tale was ever written; but the Author's purpose was that it should turn upon a fine legend of superstition which is current in the part of the Borders where he had his residence, where, in the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, that renowned person Thomas of Hersildoune, called the Rhymer, actually flourished.

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

He is here under pretence of making some researches after the writings of Thomas of Erceldoun, called the Rhymer, which he says are infinitely curious, and of which there is a volume in the old Baron's study, saved somehow from the flames at the last conflagration.

Waverley Novels — Volume 12 Walter Scott 1801

No more of the proposed tale was ever written; but the Author's purpose was that it should turn upon a fine legend of superstition which is current in the part of the Borders where he had his residence, where, in the reign of Alexander III of Scotland, that renowned person Thomas of Hersildoune, called the Rhymer, actually flourished.

Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

Thomas of Erceldoune, in Lauderdale, called the Rhymer, on account of his producing a poetical romance on the subject of Tristrem and Yseult, which is curious as the earliest specimen of English verse known to exist, flourished in the reign of Alexander III. of Scotland.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801