Child ballad 37 ("Thomas Rymer"). There is a Medieval verse romance on the same subject. As for popular ballads, the earliest written version is in the "Brown Manuscript" of 1783. Publishedin the English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume I, part 2, 1884.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
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| 1910 | English Poetry: Volume I: From Chaucer to Gray | P. F. Collier & Son | Anthology | 76 | |
| 1920 |
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The Book of Fairy Poetry | Longmans, Green and Co. | Anthology | 3 |
| January 1985 |
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Faery! | Ace Books | Anthology | 223 |
| 1996 |
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An Anthology of Scottish Fantasy Literature | Polygon | Anthology | 29 |
| May 1998 |
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The Forsaken Merman and Other Story Poems | Hodder Children's Books | Anthology | 162 |
| November 1998 |
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The Forsaken Merman and Other Story Poems | Hodder Children's Books | Anthology | 162 |
| 2000 |
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The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse | Allen Lane / Penguin Books | Anthology | 180 |
| 2006 |
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The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse | Penguin Books | Anthology | 180 |
| 2008 |
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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan | Penguin Books | Anthology | 51 |
| November 2020 |
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The Complete Harvard Classics | Moon Classics | Omnibus | |40.076 |