标题：坦林
介绍
坦林,是 《巴别塔之犬》中提到的苏格兰童话的人物，是一名武士。
原文描述
《巴别塔之犬》中这样描述：
珍妮爱上一个叫做坦林的武士，但这个人被仙女皇后带走，因此珍妮要去救他，把他带回凡人世界。在万圣节的午夜，珍妮守候在树林里，当所有仙子和精灵都骑著马从树林穿过时，他一把将坦林从马上拉下来，紧紧抱住他，无论仙后把坦林变成什麼可怕的东西她都不能松手，直到他变成赤裸的男人，到那时他就永远属於她了。       
当珍妮救出坦林，一切尘埃落定后，那位仙女皇后气急败坏的说「你带走的是我骑士团中最好的武士。」「要是昨天我早知道今日的事，我绝对会挖出你的两个灰眼睛，放进泥土做的眼睛；要是昨天我早知道你不属於我，我绝对会无情的挖出你心脏，放入一个石头制的心。」
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坦林的传说
summary: Maidens are warned against entering Chaser's woods for fear of losing their virginity. Margaret goes running into the woods to pluck roses, where she encounters Tam O the Lyn, who takes her by the hand. When she returns home, the other girls remark that she appears to be with child, and advise her about finding herbs to induce abortion. She returns to the woods, where she meets with Tam Lin again, who asks her to spare the child. He then instructs her how to rescue her from the fairies. She follows his instructions and rescues him, earning the wrath of the Queen. 
1. I forbid you maidens all 
And a warning take by me 
Don't go down to the Chaser's wood 
If a maid you want to return, return 
If a maid you want to return. 
2. Lady Margaret, Lady Margaret, she's sitting in her bower 
She as red as any rose 
And she's longed to go the Chaser's woods 
To pull them flowers that grow, grow 
to pull them flowers that grow 
3. Now she taken out her silver comb 
Made haste to comb her hair 
And she's gone down to the Chaser's wood 
As fast as she could tear, could tear 
as fast as she could tear 
4. But she hadn't pulled but the one red rose 
The rose that grows there in the green 
When a voice said, "Lady, how you dare touch a rose 
Without no leave of me, of me, 
without no leave of me." 
5. "This rose it is my very own 
My father he gave it to me. 
and I'll bend and I'll pull and I'll break the branch 
And I won't ask leave of thee, of thee, 
no I won't ask leave of thee." 
6. He's taken her by the middle so small 
Down to where the grass it grows so green 
And what he done, well I just couldn't say 
But he never once asked her leave, her leave 
He never once asked her leave. 
7. Four and twenty ladies, all sitting in the hall 
All playing at the chess 
All except for a young Margaret 
She's green as any grass, any grass, 
she's green as any grass. 
8. Yes, there's four and twenty ladies, all sitting in the hall 
All as red as the rose 
All except for a young Margaret 
Pale and wan she goes, she goes 
pale and wan she goes. 
9. Well, up there spoke one of them girls 
And on her face was a smile 
"I think my lady's loved a little long 
And now she goes with child, with child 
Yes, and now she goes with child." 
10. Up there spoke another of them girls 
A pretty little girl was she 
"I know a herb growing in the Chaser's woods 
That'll twine the babe from thee, from thee 
That will twine the babe from thee." 
11. Lady Margaret, she's taken out her silver comb 
Made haste to comb her hair 
And she's gone down to the Chaser's wood 
As fast as she could tear, could tear 
as fast as she could tear. 
12. But she hadn't pulled but the one bit o' herb 
The herb that grows there in the loam 
When up there spoke young Tam Lin 
Saying, "Margaret, leave it alone 
Oh, sweetheart, Margaret, leave it alone." 
13. "Why do you want that bitter, bitter herb 
The herb that grows there in the grey 
Except to twine away the pretty little babe 
We got in our play, our play, 
That we got in our play?" 
14. "Oh tell me this, Tam Lin," she says 
"If a mortal man you be?" 
"Well, I'll tell you truth without the word of a lie 
I got christened as good as thee, as thee 
I got christened as good as thee." 
15. "But as I rode out on a bitter, bitter day 
'Twas from my horse I fell 
And the Queen of the Elvens did take me 
In yonder green wood to dwell, to dwell 
in yonder green wood to dwell." 
16. "And it's every seventh seventh year 
We pay toll to hell ans the last one here is the first to go. 
And I fear the toll, it's meself, it's meself 
Yes, I fear the toll's meself." 
17. "Oh, tonight it is the Halloween 
When the Elven Court shall ride 
And if you would your true lover save 
By the old mill bridge you must hide, you must hide 
By the old mill bridge you must hide." 
18. First there'll come the black horse 
And it's then there'll come the brown 
they'll both race by the white 
You must throw your arms up around my neck 
And I must not hear afright, afright 
I must not hear afright." 
19. "And they'll change me then, and it's all in your arms 
to many's the beasts wild 
You must hold me tight, you must fear me not 
I'm the father of your child, 
you know that I'm the father of your child." 
20. Well the woods grew dark, and the woods grew dim 
Tam Lin he was gone. 
And she's picked up her little white feet 
And to the old mill-bridge she has run now, she has run 
To the old mill-bridge she has run. 
21. But she looked high, and she looked low 
She compassed all around 
But she nothing saw, she nothing heard 
She heared no mortal sound, no sound 
she heard no mortal sound. 
22. Untill the darkest hour of that night 
She heard the bridles ring 
It chilled her heart, gave her a start 
More than any mortal thing, any thing 
More than any mortal thing. 
23. First there came the black horse, 
then there came the brown 
They both race by the white 
She threw her arms up around his neck 
And he did not her afright, and afright 
he did not her afright. 
24. Then thunder roared across the sky 
And the stars burnt as bright as day 
And the Queen of the Elvens give a thrilling cry, 
"Tam-a-Lin, he's away, he's away 
Tam-a-Lin he's away." 
25. Well they changed him then - it was all in her arms 
To a lion roaring wild 
But she held him tight, she feared him not 
He was the father of her child, she knew that he was 
The father of her child. 
26. Well they changes him again - it was all in her arms 
To a big black dog to bite 
But she held him tight and she feared him not 
He did not hear afright, afright, he did not hear afright 
27. And they changed him again - it was all in her arms 
To a big black hissing snake 
But she held him tight she feared him not 
He was one of God's own make, she knew that 
He was one of God's own make. 
28. And they changed him again - it ws all in her arms 
To a white-hot bar of iron 
But she held him tight, she feared him not 
He'd done to her no harm, no harm 
he had done to her no harm. 
29. Then they changed him again - it was all in her arms 
To a mother-naked man 
She threw her cloak around his shoulders, 
Saying, "Tam-a-Lin, we've won, love, we've won," 
Saying, "Tam-a-Lin, we've won." 
30. Then the Queen of the Elvens, how she cursed young Tam Lin 
Oh, how she cursed him good 
"I should have torn out your eyes young Tam Lin 
I should have put in two eyes of wood, of wood 
I should have put in two eyes of wood." 
31. "It's curses on you, Tam Lin," she says 
"You once was my very own. 
And when you were mine, I should have tore out your heart 
And put in a heart of stone, cold stone 
Yes put in a heart of stone." 
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