There were twa brethren in the North,
They went to school thegither;
The one unto the other said,
‘Will you try a warsle, brither?’

The Twa Brothers from The Oxford Book of Ballads, Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (1910)

Like so many of the great border ballads ("The Twa Corbies", "The Bonnie Banks of Fordie", et al), "The Twa Brothers" is a grim little tale of murder and mayhem and sin and punishment. But after refreshing my memory of the genre with yesterday's selkie song, I couldn't resist... [Hide the verbosity]