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Another ballad, "I Wish I Wish But It's All in Vain" (Roud 495) has a similar theme. It has been collected in Scotland and Ireland. [13] There are "floating verses" across the songs, but the American lyrics (as Roud 451) are close to each other, and sufficiently different from the British versions (Roud 495) to make them different songs.
Related English ballads which share stanza composition as well as narratives of heartbreak-induced death include Fair Margaret and Sweet William and Lord Lovel. [4] [5] Several Norse variants of this ballad exist, although the man does not reject the woman on advice of his friends in them. [6]
Folk. Folk ballad; Gnomic: a poems laced with proverbs, aphorisms, or maxims. [1] Hymn: a poem praising God or the divine (often sung). Lament: any poem expressing deep grief, usually at a death or some other loss. Dirge; Elegy: a poem of lament
Several Scandinavian variants exist: the Swedish "Skön Anna" and the Danish "Skjön Anna" (DgF 258).In them, the hero is a man who has newly become king, after the death of his father; his long-term mistress, Anna or Anneck, tries to get him to make her his wife, and the queen mother supports her.
There are a number of different versions of the ballad. In addition to the eight collected by Francis James Child in volume IV of his anthology The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (versions A to H), others can be found in Britain and in the United States, where it remained especially widespread, [4] with hundreds of versions being collected throughout the years, [5] around 250 of them in ...
The Miorița ballad is summarized and discussed by Mircea Eliade in Zalmoxis, The Vanishing God (1972), [21] and plays a fundamental role in his novel The Forbidden Forest. The poem was quoted extensively by Patrick Leigh Fermor in his account [52] of the second part of a journey on foot from Holland to Constantinople in 1933–34. He includes ...
The Seeds of Love, sung by the gardener John England, was the first folk song Cecil Sharp ever collected while he was staying with Charles Marson, vicar of Hambridge, Somerset, England, in 1903. [3] Maud Karpeles wrote about this occasion in her 1967 autobiography:
Fair Mary of Wallington or Fair Lady of Wallington (Roud 59, Child 91) is a traditional English-language folk ballad. [1] Francis James Child lists at least seven variants of the ballad. [2] The first variant is titled "Fair Mary of Wallington", while another variant (variant C) is titled "The Bonny Early of Livingston". [3]