Thomas The Rhymer

Also called �Thomas Learmont�, or �Thomas Of Erceldoune� Scottish poet and prophet who was likely the author of the metrical romance Sir Tristrem, a version of the widely diffused Tristan legend. The romance was first printed in 1804 by Sir Walter Scott from a manuscript of about 1300. Thomas is now probably best known through the ballad �Thomas the Rhymer,� included by Scott in his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). In popular lore