Old travel Blog photograph of the Thomas the Rhymer Glen near Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Legend has it that hundreds of years ago Thomas the Rhymer met the Queen of the Fairies who lives on the Eildon Hills and who frequented this glen. He was seduced and lived with her for seven years until finally her spell broke and he returned to the world of human beings. In July 1831 Joseph Mallord William Turner visited Sir Walter at Abbotsford and the two of them walked to Rhymer's Glen, where Turner made a watercolour which is now in the collection of The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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