Editing Tam Lin (section)

==Adaptations==
[[File:Tam Lin by Pamela Dean.jpg|thumb|318x318px|[[Thomas Canty]]'s cover art for [[Tam Lin (novel)|Tam Lin by Pamela Dean]]]]

===Prose===
* [[John Myers Myers]] tells a variant in ''[[Silverlock]]'' (1949)
*''[[The Armourer's House]]'', by [[Rosemary Sutcliff]] (1951) -- includes a telling of the Tam Lin tale, which parallels the novel's theme of a girl struggling to obtain her dreams.
* ''Scottish Folk-Tales and Legends'', by [[Barbara Ker Wilson]] (1954)
* ''Thursday'', by [[Catherine Storr]] (1971)
* ''[[Red Shift (novel)|Red Shift]]'', by [[Alan Garner]] (1973)
* ''The Queen of Spells'', by [[Dahlov Ipcar]] (1973)
* ''[[The Perilous Gard]]'', by [[Elizabeth Marie Pope]] (1974)
* ''[[Fire and Hemlock]]'', by [[Diana Wynne Jones]] (1985)
* ''Tam Lin'' by Joan D. Vinge, in ''Imaginary Lands'' edited by [[Robin McKinley]] (1986)
* ''Nattens demon'' (translated from Norwegian as ''Demon of the Night''), by [[Margit Sandemo]] (1987)
* ''Tam Lin: An Old Ballad'', by [[Jane Yolen]], illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak (1990)
* ''Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pass'', by [[Alice Munro]], in ''[[Friend of My Youth]]'' (1990)
* ''Tam Lin'' by [[Susan Cooper]], illustrated by [[Warwick Hutton]] (1991)
* ''[[Tam Lin (novel)|Tam Lin]]'', by [[Pamela Dean]] (1991)
* ''Tam Lin'', in the graphic novel series ''Ballads and Sagas'' edited by [[Charles Vess]] (1995)
* ''[[Winter Rose (novel)|Winter Rose]]'', by [[Patricia McKillip]] (1996)
* ''Never Let Go'', by [[Geraldine McCaughrean]], illustrated by Jason Cockcroft (1999)
* ''Burd Janet'', by [[Jane Yolen]], in ''Not One Damsel in Distress'' (2000)
* ''Tam Lin'' (a version in [[Scots language|Scots]]), by Ian MacFadyen, in ''The Eildon Tree'', Special Double Issue 4-5: Winter 2001, edited by Tom Bryan 
* "Cotillion", by [[Delia Sherman]], in ''[[Firebirds (anthology)|Firebirds]]'', edited by [[Sharyn November]] (2003)
* ''[[The Dogs of Babel]]'' (UK edition: ''Lorelei's Secret''), by [[Carolyn Parkhurst]] (2003)
* ''[[Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale]]'' by [[Holly Black]] (2004)
* "He Said, Sidhe Said" by [[Tanya Huff]], in ''Faerie Tales'' ed. Russell Davis and Martin H. Greenberg (2004)
* ''An Earthly Knight'', by [[Janet McNaughton]] (2005)
* ''Blood and Iron'', by [[Elizabeth Bear]] (2006)
* ''Summer's Lease'', by Eluki bes Shahar ([[Rosemary Edghill]]) {{Citation needed|date=January 2015}}
* "The Lady and the Fox," by [[Kelly Link]], in ''My True Love Gave to Me'', ed. Stephanie Perkins (2014)
* ''[[A Court of Thorns and Roses]]'', by [[Sarah J. Maas]] (2015)
* ''Roses and Rot'', by [[Kat Howard]] (2016)

===Theatre===
*''The Thyme of the Season'' by [[Duncan Pflaster]] (incorporates elements and allusions to the story)
*''Tamlane'' by Edwin Stiven<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]]|date=3 June 2020|title=Obituary: Charles Nowosielski, visionary director behind Theatre Alba|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/obituary-charles-nowosielski-visionary-director-behind-theatre-alba-2871701}}</ref>

===Film===
*''[[Tam-Lin (film)|Tam-Lin]]'' (1970 movie) directed by [[Roddy McDowall]], and starring [[Ava Gardner]].
*''[[An Old Ballad]]'' (1988 animated film) directed by [[Valentyna Kostyleva]], [[Kyivnaukfilm|Kyїvnaukfilm]].<ref>{{YouTube|AUuKiSbIm9k|An Old Ballad (1988 animated film)}}</ref>

===Novels===
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* In [[Carolyn Parkhurst]]'s novel ''[[The Dogs of Babel]]'' (also known as ''Lorelei's Secret'' in the UK), a section of Tam Lin plays a pivotal role in the story.  In it the narrator, Paul Iverson, discovers that his recently deceased wife left an encrypted message to him in their bookshelf, quoting Tam Lin.
* The multi-faceted novel ''[[Red Shift (novel)|Red Shift]]'' by [[Alan Garner]] can be read as a subtle reworking of the ballad.
* In the fantasy novel ''[[The Battle of Evernight]]'' by [[Cecilia Dart-Thornton]], the story of Tam Lin is told as the story of Tamlain Conmor.
* Tamlin appears in the fantasy novel ''Rumors of Spring'' by [[Richard Grant (author)|Richard Grant]].
* In [[Jim Butcher]]'s novel [[Cold Days]] Tam Lin is referenced as a former Knight of the Winter Court
* ''[[A Court of Thorns and Roses]]'' by [[Sarah J. Maas]] (2015) has a fairy character named Tamlin whom the protagonist saves from an evil fairy queen, though the novel's plot resembles ''[[Beauty and the Beast]].''

===Comic books===
* ''Tam-Lin'', a [[closet drama]] written by [[Elaine Lee]] and illustrated by [[Charles Vess]], appears in ''The Book of Ballads and Sagas'', Vess's collection of adaptations of traditional songs, mostly into comics form.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Neil|last1=Gaiman|first2=Jane|last2=Yolan|first3=Sharyn|last3=McCrumb|first4=Midori |last4=Snyder|first5=Charles|last5=De Lint|others=Illustrated by Charles Vess|title=The Book of Ballads and Sagas|publisher=Titan Comics|date=2018|isbn= 978-1782763321}}</ref>
* In the [[Vertigo Comics|Vertigo]] comic book, ''[[Fables (Vertigo)|Fables]]'', Tam Lin died in the defence of the last stronghold of the Fables against the forces of the Adversary. He is claimed to be the knight loved by the queen of the faeries, who had a reputation of a scoundrel, but gave up his chance of freedom to his page.
* In the Vertigo comic book series, ''[[The Sandman (DC Comics)|The Sandman]]'' by [[Neil Gaiman]], the notion that Faerie pays a sacrificial tithe to Hell is mentioned in the storyline "Season of Mists".
* In the Vertigo comic book series ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', ''The Names of Magic'', and ''The Books of Faerie'', Tamlin is the father of the protagonist Timothy Hunter, potentially the greatest sorcerer in the world. In ''The Books of Faerie: The Widow's Tale'', the story of Tamlin's romance with Queen Titania of Faerie is revealed.<ref name="vert-ency">{{Cite book  | last = Irvine | first = Alex | author-link = Alexander C. Irvine | contribution = The Books of Faerie | editor-last = Dougall  | editor-first = Alastair  | title = The Vertigo Encyclopedia  | pages = 36–37 | publisher = [[Dorling Kindersley]]  | place = New York  | year = 2008 | isbn = 978-0-7566-4122-1 | oclc = 213309015}}</ref>
===Other===
* In the mobile game [[Fate/Grand Order]], Tam Lin are used to refer to Fairy Knights in the English Translation of the game.
* In the ''[[Megami Tensei|Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series of video games, Tam Lin is a recurring demon that can often be recruited relatively early and is one of the very few demons whose design share an exact model with another demon – its brother model being another northern European mythological hero, [[Cú Chulainn|Cu Chulainn]].
* This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in ''Ballads Weird and Wonderful'' (1912) and illustrated by [[Vernon Hill (sculptor)|Vernon Hill]].
* ''The Rose'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=4&bid=720 |title=The Rose |publisher=Shadowscapes.com |access-date=2014-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128084140/http://shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=4&bid=720 |archive-date=28 November 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''The Knight'',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=4&bid=732 |title=Stephanie Pui-Mun Law |publisher=Shadowscapes |access-date=2014-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716050654/http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=4&bid=732 |archive-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and ''The Faery Host''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=4&bid=718 |title=The Faery Host |publisher=Shadowscapes.com |access-date=2014-05-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101128084307/http://shadowscapes.com/image.php?lineid=4&bid=718 |archive-date=28 November 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> are paintings by [[Stephanie Pui-Mun Law]] depicting various parts of the Tam Lin legend.
* The [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] book ''Enchanted Kingdom'' has an ending in which the reader/player's character is rescued from the fairies by a girl whom the character has befriended, who has to hold onto the character through three transformations.
* In [[Seanan McGuire]]'s October Daye series, the poem is both spoken and referenced over the course of the series, and Janet is a character in some of the later books. The events of the poem occurred in universe.
* [[Alastair White]]'s fashion-opera ''WOAD'' adapts the ballad to explore the implications of multiverse theory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alastair White: WOAD |url=https://www.classical-music.com/reviews/opera/alastair-white-woad/ |access-date=2022-04-29 |website=Classical Music |language=en}}</ref>