"English and Scottish Ballads"

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Editor

Child, Francis James, 1825-1896

Title

English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I

Credits

Produced by Simon Gardner, Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Bibliography

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Text

eBook-No.

37031

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37031

Release Date

August 10, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Notes: — ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH BALLADS. — EDITED BY FRANCIS JAMES CHILD. — VOLUME I. — BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. M.DCCC.LX. — CONTENTS OF VOLUME FIRST. — PREFACE. — LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS of english and scottish ballads and songs. — Publications of the Percy Society , (1840-1852.) — Publications of the Shakespeare Society:
2. 2.BOOK I. — THE BOY AND THE MANTLE. — THE HORN OF KING ARTHUR. — MS. Ashmole, 61, fol. 59 to 62. — FRAGMENT OF THE MARRIAGE OF SIR GAWAINE. — From Percy's Reliques , iii. 403. — THE SECOND PART. — KING ARTHUR'S DEATH. — A FRAGMENT. — Reliques of English Poetry , iii, 67. — THE LEGEND OF KING ARTHUR. — Reliques of English Poetry , iii. 76. — SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE. — THE LEGEND OF SIR GUY. — (Percy's Reliques , iii. 143.) — ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. — (From Percy's Reliques , iii. 278.) — THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. — THOMAS OF ERSSELDOUNE. — THOMAS OF ERSSELDOUNE. — THOMAS THE RHYMER. — TRADITIONAL VERSION. — THE YOUNG TAMLANE. — THE WEE WEE MAN. — THE ELFIN KNIGHT. — THE BROOMFIELD HILL. — LORD JOHN. — From Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads , (p. 195.) — KEMPION. — KEMP OWYNE. — KING HENRY. — COSPATRICK. — ( Border Minstrelsy , iii. 263.) — BOTHWELL. — From Herd's Scottish Songs , (i. 143.) — WILLIE'S LADYE. — ALISON GROSS. — Jamieson's Popular Ballads , ii. 187. — FROM THE RECITATION OF MRS. BROWN. — THE EARL OF MAR'S DAUGHTER. — From Buchan's Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland , (i. 49.) — YOUNG AKIN. — YOUNG HASTINGS THE GROOM. — (Motherwell's Minstrelsy , p. 287.) — CLERK COLVILL, OR THE MERMAID. — LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT. — From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland , i. 22, where it is entitled The Gowans sae gay , from the burden. — THE WATER O' WEARIE'S WELL. — THE DÆMON LOVER. — JAMES HERRIES. — From Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland , (i. 214.) — (See the preface to the last ballad but one .) — THE KNIGHT'S GHOST. — From Buchan's ballads of the North of Scotland , (i. 227.) — THE WIFE OF USHER'S WELL. — Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border , iii. 258. — THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE: — SIR ROLAND. — From Motherwell's Minstrelsy , p. 124.
3. 3.APPENDIX. — FRAGMENT OF THE BALLAD OF KING ARTHUR AND THE KING OF CORNWALL. — Printed from the celebrated Percy MS. in Madden's Syr Gawayne , p. 275. — THE THIRD PARTE. — FRAGMENT OF CHILD ROWLAND AND BURD ELLEN. — ROSMER HAFMAND, — THE MER-MAN ROSMER. — TAM-A-LINE, THE ELFIN KNIGHT. — (See page 114 .) — From Scottish Traditionary Versions of Ancient Ballads , Percy Society, xvii. p. 11. — TOM LINN. — (See p. 114 .) — This fragment was taken down from the recitation of an old woman. Maidment's New Book of Old Ballads , p. 54. — BURD ELLEN AND YOUNG TAMLANE. — ALS Y YOD ON AY MOUNDAY. — (See p. 126 .) — THE ELPHIN KNIGHT. — (See p. 128 .) — THE LAIDLEY WORM OF SPINDLESTON-HEUGH. — See p. 137 . — LORD DINGWALL. — (See p. 152 .) — From Buchan's Ancient Ballads and Songs of the North of Scotland . (i. 204.) — FRAGMENT OF HYNDE ETIN. — (See p. 179 .) — From Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads , p. 228. — SIR OLUF AND THE ELF-KING'S DAUGHTER. — (See p. 192 .) — FRAGMENT OF THE DÆMON LOVER. — (See p. 201 .) — (Motherwell's Minstrelsy , p. 92.) — CONSTANTINE AND ARETE. — See p. 217 . — CONSTANTINE AND ARETE (English Translation). — THE HAWTHORN TREE. — Ritson's Ancient Songs , ii. 44. — ST. STEPHEN AND HEROD. — Ritson's Ancient Songs , i. 141, Sandys's Christmas Carols , p. 4: from the Sloane MS., No. 2593 (temp. Hen. VI.) — GLOSSARY. — N.B. Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur. — Transcriber's Notes

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