It depends, for me. I do find that they'll run to unsingably wrong -- I mean, the 30 of Binnorie is pretty long as-is, but Hind Horn is well over 40, and Thomas the Rhymer (which also has lots and lots of more-or-less unnecessary verses; as you say, many things cobbled together) is also well over 30 IIRC.
OTOH, I do quite like the Binorrie ending -- unlike a lot of the middle bits, (like the quite-a-number-of-verses about the dead lady in the water), it flows nicely and has something resembling resolution.
I admit that I tend to simply modernize dialect when singing songs written in it where possible (ie, where it doesn't mess up the rhyme scheme).
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OTOH, I do quite like the Binorrie ending -- unlike a lot of the middle bits, (like the quite-a-number-of-verses about the dead lady in the water), it flows nicely and has something resembling resolution.
I admit that I tend to simply modernize dialect when singing songs written in it where possible (ie, where it doesn't mess up the rhyme scheme).