Castle of Ercildoune

Rhymer's Tower

Here, in the thirteenth century, lived Thomas the Rhymer, who, according to the ballad of True Thomas, visited the Queen of Faery in her own land and who, according to Glennie, became a guide to those adventures trying to find the sleeping Arthur.

Perhaps already in Arthur's day this was a gateway into the Otherworld of Faery.

Glennie puts Rhymer's Tower at present-day Earlston, north of Melrose, Roxburgh County, Scotland, with Rhymer's Glen slanting down below Melrose and including Din Drei.