I first heard the story of
Tam Lin at an impressionable age on Fairport Convention’s classic folk-rock album
Liege and Lief. A heady mixture of traditional folk songs and thumping guitar riffs. It’s curious that your retelling of the tale seems to place Tam Lin in that very same folk-rock band as Richard Thompson, with Sandy Denny as Janet. I guess rockstar guitarist and knight in shining armour do overlap.