Hardyknute
Subtitle: A Fragment of an Antient Scots Poem.
Contributors: Wardlaw, Elizabeth, Lady, 1677-1727.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Robert Foulis
Published: 1745
Place of publication: Glasgow
Language: sco
Number of pages: 27
Notes: Advertisement, headed: 'In the Press, and will speedily be publish'd by R. Foulis', on verso of G2.

H&L cites the 1719 edition as being the work of Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw. The DNB states that it was published during her lifetime, as an ancient poem.

The DNB refers to Lady Elizabeth Wardlaw, née Halket, (1677-1727) as 'the supposed authoress of the ballad of 'Hardyknute' ... 'The ballad ... which she was the first to make known to the world, was at first circulated by her as the fragment of an ancientballad discovered in a vault in Dunfermline. But no original manuscript of this fragment is forthcoming; and while the ballad is manifestly in great part modern, several of her friends, professing to be intimately acquainted with the circumstances of itsproduction, positively ascribe to her its authorship'.

ESTC758H1 [under title].