"Earl Brand" also known as "Earl Bran", "The Brave Earl Brand and the King of England's Daughter", "The Douglas Tragedy", "Lord Douglas" or "Lady Margaret and The Child of Ell" is a narrative ballad known in England and Scotland. According to Child, the full ballad was "recovered from the oral tradition" in 1857. Prior to that, fragments appeared in Scots Minstrelsy (1803). A similar story, "Ribold and Guldbord", is told on a Danish broadside circa 1648. This ballad appears throughout Scandinavia. It appears in Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads as #7. This version is one of twelve that Cecil Sharp collected in the Appalachians. He collected it from Mrs. Lizzie Gibson at Crozet, VA in 1918. It is in the Roud Folksong Index as #23. It was printed in Peggy Seeger's Folk Songs of Peggy Seeger (1964), Niles' The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles (1961) and Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians (1932). It was recorded by Ewan MacColl and A.L. Lloyd on The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Volume III (1956) (as The Douglas Tragedy), Jeff Davies and Brian Peters on Sharp’s Appalachian Harvest (2013), Gigspanner Big Band on Natural Invention (2020) and Henry McGregor on Classic Ballads of Britain and Ireland Volume 1 (2000).