Scott, who wanted "a complete Scottish Otterburn" in winter 1802, did
not sit down and make one. He waited till he got a text from Hogg, in
1805, and published an edited version in 1806.

SCOTT'S PUBLISHED stanza i. is Herd's stanza i., with slight verbal
changes taken from the Hogg MS. text of 1805. (?) Hogg's MS. and
Scott, in stanza ii., give Herd's lines on the Lindsays and Gordons,
adding the Grahams, and, in place of Herd's


The Earl of Fife,
And Sir Hugh Montgomery upon a grey,


they end thus -


But the Jardines wald not wi' him ride,
And they rue it to this day.


This is from Hogg's copy; it is a natural Border variant. No Earl of
Fife is named, but a reproach to a Border clan is conveyed.

For Herd's iii. (they take Northumberland, and burn "the North shire,"
and the Otter dale), Hogg's reciters gave -


And he has burned the dales o' Tyne,
And part o' ALMONSHIRE,