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Erlinton (Child Ballad 8) Traditional - Arranged by Cold Iron Ballads

Erlinton (Child Ballad 8) Traditional - Arranged by Cold Iron Ballads (Modern English adaptation) One of the early English and Scottish ballads, recorded here in a modern arrangement. In its traditional form, Erlinton tells the story of a young woman persuaded to walk beyond the safety of home by a man whose intentions slowly turn dangerous. Isolated by water and distance, she is confronted with the threat of violence before unexpected intervention changes the outcome. This version preserves the structure of the original ballad while translating its tension into a restrained account of near-betrayal and interrupted harm. There is no spectacle in the rescue and no celebration afterward — only the knowledge of what almost occurred. Here, survival is marked not by triumph, but by the thin line between what happened and what did not.