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- 1 2 Familiar letters of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 1, Sir Walter Scott, Houghton Mifflin, 1894, page 151
- 1 2 Concise Scots dictionary Mairi Robinson, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, ISBN 1-902930-01-0, ISBN 978-1-902930-01-5 pages 162-166
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- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary
- Atkinson, Philip. Folk Tales of North East England.
- Grice, F, Folk Tales of the North Country (Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd, London & Edinburgh, 1944) pp130–133
- Simonside Folklore
