• The Bonnie House of Airlie is a traditional Scottish folk song of the seventeenth century, telling the tale of the raid by Archibald Campbell, Earl of...
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  • "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (Child 181, Roud 334) is a popular Scottish ballad, which may date from as early as the 17th century. The ballad touches on...
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    Earl of Airlie is a title of the peerage in Scotland created on 2 April 1639 for James Ogilvy, 7th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, along with the title "Lord Ogilvy...
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    Chief of Clan Campbell, on Airlie Castle and the family of fellow Royalist leader James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Airlie, by burning the Campbell Chief alive and...
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  • Herries", "The Carpenter’s Wife", "The Banks of Italy", or "The House-Carpenter" – is a popular ballad dating from the mid-seventeenth century, when the earliest...
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    Sir Guy of Gisbourne (also spelled Gisburne, Gisborne, Gysborne, or Gisborn) is a character from the Robin Hood legends of English folklore. He first appears...
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    Forter Castle (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    still a ruin. The listing states that the castle was "perpetuated in ballad, "Bonnie House of Airlie". James Ogilivy, the 5th Lord of Airlie, built Forter...
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    Maid Marian (category Fictional characters introduced in the 16th century)
    is the heroine of the Robin Hood legend in English folklore, often taken to be his lover. She is not mentioned in the early, medieval versions of the legend...
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    or "Binnorie", "The Cruel Sister", "The Wind and Rain", "Dreadful Wind and Rain", "The Bonny Swans" and the "Bonnie Bows of London". The ballad was collected...
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  • "The Cherry-Tree Carol" (Roud 453) is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). The song...
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    (catalogued as number 26). The ballad centers three scavenger birds conversing about where and what they should eat. One tells the others of a newly slain knight...
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    Scotland". digital.nls.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2021. "Bonnie Barbara Allan (VWML Song Index SN23862)". The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Retrieved 7 February...
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    Silverlock (1949) The Armourer's House, by Rosemary Sutcliff (1951) -- includes a telling of the Tam Lin tale, which parallels the novel's theme of a girl struggling...
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    "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as Child Ballad 162 (Roud 223). There are two extant ballads under this title, both of which...
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    dating from the late 13th or early 14th century. It retells the story of Orpheus as a king who rescues his wife from the fairy king. The folk song Orfeo...
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    edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, five volumes (Northfield, Minnesota: Loomis House Press, 2002-2011). Not counting reissues of the 1882-98...
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  • Alan-a-Dale (category Fictional characters introduced in the 17th century)
    figure in the Robin Hood legend. According to the stories, he was a wandering minstrel who became a member of Robin's band of outlaws, the "Merry Men"...
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    Sailor Songs, "The Crabfish", archived from the original on 2012-12-11, retrieved 2014-06-08 Dan and Bonnie Milner sing "The Crabfish" at the 2009 Chicago...
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    Francis James Child (category Presidents of the American Folklore Society)
    known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard...
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    Vaugan Williams, Ralph. "Mr". Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. Cecil Sharp House. Retrieved 13 November 2022. Matteson jnr, Richard. "Mr". Bluegrassmessengers...
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    occasions; Fairport Convention on their 1970 album Full House, and with Sandy Denny in the reissue of Liege & Lief; Nic Jones on his 1970 album, Ballads and...
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    Airlie Castle is a mansion house in the parish of Airlie, Angus, near the junction of the Isla and Melgund rivers, 9 kilometres west of Kirriemuir, Angus...
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    based upon the ballads of Thomas the Rhymer and Tam Lin. The British country/acid house band Alabama 3 drew upon the ballad of Thomas the Rhymer in a...
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  • (Roud 6, Child 93) is an English-language ballad. It gives an account of the murder of a woman and her infant son by a man, in some versions, a disgruntled...
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  • "The Elfin Knight" (Roud 12, Child 2) is a traditional Scottish folk ballad of which there are many versions, all dealing with supernatural occurrences...
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  • Stewart, Chilton Price)– 3:25 "Elfin Knight" (Traditional)– 4:04 "The Bonnie House of Airlie" (Traditional, arranged by Rusby and McCusker) – 5:39 "Moon Shadow"...
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  • Baez/5 (1964) the compilation album The Joan Baez Lovesong Album (1976) the live album Live at Newport (1996) House and Land interpret the song as their...
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  • Doon l'Alemanz, as part of the English romance Sir Triamour, and in the legend of Genevieve of Brabant. In the Erl of Toulouse, the hero is merely a disinterested...
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    The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published...
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    Niles, John Jacob (1961). The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles. Bramhall House, New York. pp. 159–161, 194–197. "The Knight of the Burning Pestle, by Beaumont...
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