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Childe Rowland is a fairy tale, the most popular version written by Joseph Jacobs in his English Fairy Tales, published in 1890, based on an earlier version published in 1814 by Robert Jamieson. Jamieson's was repeating a "Scottish ballad", which he had heard from a tailor.
Joseph Jacobs called the King of Elfland's palace "the Dark Tower" in his version, an addition he made that was not part of the original ballad.
This harks to Shakespeare's King Lear and Robert Browning's poem "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came".
It is Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 312D, "Rescue by the Brother."
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