Old Photograph Dowie Dens of Yarrow Scotland

Old photograph of Dowie Dens of Yarrow, Scottish Borders, Scotland. There is a song, The Dowie Dens of Yarrow, also known as The Braes of Yarrow, closely associated with this area of the Yarrow Water that extends through the Scottish borders towards Selkirk. The song is believed to be based on an actual incident. The hero of the ballad was a knight of great bravery, popularly believed to be John Scott, sixth son of the Laird of Harden. According to history, he met a treacherous and untimely death in Ettrick Forest at the hands of his kin, the Scotts of Gilmanscleugh in the seventeenth century.



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