Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0022632, Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:26:24 -0300

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Matt: I found another version about Lord Randall's true love. It comes close to another, related to a treacherous Elf Knight (totally unrelated to Goethe's and Shade's Erlkonig lines). Cf. Medieval English Ballads www.moonwise.com/ballads.html -
"O where ha you been, Lord Randal, my son?
And where ha you been, my handsome young man?"
"I ha been at the greenwood; mother, mak my bed soon,
For I'm wearied wi hunting, and fain wad lie down."

"An wha met ye there, Lord Randal, my son?
And wha met ye there, my handsome young man?"
"O I met wi my true-love; mother, mak my bed soon,
For I'm wearied wi huntin, and fain wad lie down."

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""What d'ye leave to your mother, Lord Randal, my son?
What d'ye leave to your mother, my handsome young man?"
"Four and twenty milk kye; mother, mak my bed soon,
For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain wad lie down."

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"What d'ye leave to your true-love, Lord Randal, my son?
What d'ye leave to your true-love, my handsome young man?"
"I leave her hell and fire; mother mak my bed soon,
For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain wad lie down."



Scottish Ballads

These poems are among a group of anonymous songs that were probably written between 1200 and 1700 in Northern England and Scotland. Their origins are a bit controversial; scholars can't agree on how they were composed, or how old individual ballads are. Most were not written down until the eighteenth and even nineteenth centuries.
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Ballads with a * include musical notation.

The Broomfield Hill
The Cruel Mother
*The Cruel Sister
Eppie Morrie
Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight
Lord Randal
Sir Patrick Spence
*TamLin
*The Three Ravens
Thomas Rhymr
The Twa Magicians
*The Unquiet Grave
The Wee Wee Man
*The Wife of Usher's Well
Another Ballad Site!

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