Brewer's: Border

(The ). The frontier of England and Scotland, which, from the eleventh to the fifteenth century, was the field of constant forays, and a most fertile source of ill blood between North and South Britain.

March, march, Ettrick and Teviotdale; Why the deil dinna-ye march forward in order?  March, march, Eskdale and Liddesdale- All the Blue Bonnets are bound for the border.

SirWalterScott: The Monastery.

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