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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads - Volume 1
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'Kann inkje mÃ' rúninne hjelpe meg?'
[57] Kolberg's b, h, k, v, x, bb, cc, hh, kk, ll, nn, xx, yy, zz, consist of only one or two initial stanzas, containing no important variation. His aaa, a fragment of six stanzas, Pauli, p. 147, No 6, Wojcicki, II, 169, though it begins like the rest, sounds like a different ballad.
The ballad in Wojcicki, I, 38, is allied with the one we are engaged with, and the two fragments on p. 36, p. 37 with both this and that.
[58] Anne in R, LL, and Kolberg's h: Mary in I, U, II: Ursula, N: both Catherine and Alice, AA. John is found in all but N, where there is a nameless seigneur.
[59] They are expressly said to go off in a carriage in I, O, Q, T, BB, DD, FF. Still, in I, John says, "Let the black horse have something to carry under us." In O, T, FF, the horses have a presentiment of evil to their mistress, and . . . Read More
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Another one that I dabbled in as a teenager and in college, but want to reread now that I have world of folk music knowledge in me (or in my iPod, at any rate).
I love reading these ballads and wondering who they were written about and what life was like at the time. There are all sorts of songs in this collection; love songs, battle songs, drinking songs, songs about death. Deffnitely worth reading if only to catch a glimpse of the medeival.
I love the old mountain ballads, so this collection is must-have for my library.
got my set of these back in the early '70s when i was listening to Pentangle and John Renbourn. i was so obsessed at the time that i almost went to Toronto to study medieval music. what a valuable degree that would have been. this is the definative collection for anyone interested in early english b
These books are irreplaceable.
Versions of the poems and lyrics gathered together 'the definitive reference source for all studies in (...) English literature, folklore and balladry. I came across them in the 1980s, through lyrics used by Fairport Convention on their albums - Tam Lin, Crazy Man Micha