- Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: Consisting of historical and romantic ballads, collected in the southern counties of Scotland; with a few of modern date, founded upon local tradition. Volume 1. (online) available at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12742/12742-h/12742-h.htm (accessed 5/04/2023), no page number.

- George McDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, London, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971, p. 4.

- W. Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

- Ibid.

- Ibid.

- Lauren Clark and Colin Younger, Border Crossings: Narration, Nation and Imagination in Scots and Irish Literature and Culture, Cambridge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

- Roland Bouyssou, “Over Hill and Dale in the Border Ballads”, Caliban, 23 (“Mountains in Image and Word in the English-Speaking World”), 2008 (online) available at https://doi.org/10.4000/caliban.1145 (accessed 19/12/2023).

- John Marsden, The Illustrated Border Ballads, p. 134.

- Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1898, (online) available at https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch169.htm (accessed 02/03/2023).

- J. Marsden, The Illustrated Border Ballads, London, McMillan, 1990, p. 17.

- L. Clark and C. Younger, Border Crossings: Narration…, 2013.

- A. N. Wilson, A Life of Walter Scott: The Laird of Abbotsford, London, Pimlico, 2002, p. 158.

- Ibid., p. 23.

- William Beattie, Border Ballads, Edinburgh, Penguin, 1952, p. 16.

- Ibid., p. 72.

- G. McDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, p. 346.

- J. Marsden, The Illustrated Border Ballads, p. 17.

- W. Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.

- J. Marsden, The Illustrated Border Ballads, p. 134.

- Suzanne Gilbert, “Alliance and Defiance in Scottish and American Outlaw-Hero Ballads”, Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature, 18, 2012, p. 73.

- G. McDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, p. 57.

- Ibid., p. 103.

- J. Marsden, The Illustrated Border Ballads, p. 165.

- G. McDonald Fraser, The Steel Bonnets, p. 344.

- J. Marsden, The Illustrated Border Ballads, p. 169.

- John Sadler, The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border, Stroud, Aberly, 2022, p. 229.