Tam Lin Translated

Translating Tam Lin

The following are translations of versions of Tam Lin into other languages. These have been provided by fans of the ballad. If you speak multiple languages and would like to translated any version of the ballad into another language for the aid of potential who do not read English (or Scots!) as a first language, it would be appreciated

For anyone who does read English as a first language and is still having trouble with understanding Tam Lin, you maybe interested in an explanation of the Scottish terms or a standardized version of the ballad.

On this site

• Italian
  • translation by: Maurizio
  • translated from: Fairport Convention version.
• Polish
  • translation by: Carthia
  • translated from: Dave and Toni Arthur version
• Russian (video)

Translated on other sites

• Tam Lin at Imaginaria a prose version in Spanish
• Tam Lin: Il cavaliere elfico a prose version in Italian
• Francesca Matteoni, Tam Lin altre poesie, a review of an Italian collection of poems based around Tam Lin