"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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memorialized in "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". The area known as Chevy Chase includes several entities in southern Montgomery County: The Town of Chevy Chase, an incorporated...
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"The Ballad of Chevy Chase", a 16th-century ballad from the borderland between England and Scotland; the source of the term Derived from the ballad, but...
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"Chevy" Chase (/ˈtʃɛvi/; born October 8, 1943) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He became the breakout cast member in the first season of Saturday...
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shared in the identified tradition of Border ballads, particularly evinced by the cross-border narrative in versions of "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" sometimes...
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The Battle of Otterburn, also known as the Battle of Chevy Chase, took place according to Scottish sources on 5 August 1388, or 19 August according to...
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Scottish victory at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388. This battle also inspired "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", an English version, but the Scottish version...
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half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The tunes of most of the ballads...
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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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1620 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
Isaac Jaggard in London. The second version of The Ballad of Chevy Chase appears. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las...
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Maid Marian (category Fictional characters introduced in the 16th century)
one of the early strong female characters in English literature. Maid Marian (or Marion) is never mentioned in any of the earliest extant ballads of Robin...
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Lancashire (redirect from The Red Rose County)
finest border ballad, "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", thought to have been composed by the Lancashire-born minstrel Richard Sheale. The county was also a common...
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Barbara Allen (song) (redirect from The Ballad of Barbara Allen)
man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death. The song began as a ballad in the seventeenth century or earlier, before quickly spreading (both...
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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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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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William Bell Scott (category Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art)
figures, supplemented by eighteen pictures on The Ballad of Chevy Chase in the spandrels of the arches of the hall. For Penkill Castle he executed a similar...
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Tam Lin (category Border ballads)
legendary ballad originating from the Scottish Borders. It is also associated with a reel of the same name, also known as the Glasgow Reel. The story revolves...
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of English folklore. He first appears in "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne" (Child Ballad 118), where he is an assassin who attempts to kill Robin Hood...
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War song (section Songs of the Spanish Civil War)
Ballad of Chevy Chase", which exists in several versions and deals, somewhat inaccurately, with the events of the Scottish victory of the Battle of Otterburn...
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listed as Child ballad 56 and number 477 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is considered a Christmas carol and based on the parable of the rich man and Lazarus...
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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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article: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads/Part 1/Chapter 26 "The Three Ravens" (Roud 5, Child 26) is an English folk ballad, printed in the songbook...
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eighty ballads in three volumes with three sections in each. It contains such important ballads as "The Ballad of Chevy Chase", "The Battle of Otterburn"...
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Cheviot Hills (redirect from The Cheviots)
described in "The Ballad of Chevy Chase". (Note the origin of the border skirmishes between Percy, the Earl of Northumberland, and the Scottish Earl of Douglas...
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including one of the earliest British ballads 'The Ballad of Chevy Chase', which deals with the events of the Scottish victory of the Battle of Otterburn...
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forms the basis of the English and Scottish ballads The Ballad of Chevy Chase and The Battle of Otterburn. Douglas married Isabel, a daughter of King Robert...
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concerning the trial of the eponymous hero whose lover pleads for his life. It is listed as Child ballad 209 and Number 90 in the Roud Folk Song Index. The ballad...
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Sir Lionel (redirect from Sir Lionel (ballad))
also the subject of a traditional ballad. When their father dies in battle against King Claudas, Lionel and Bors are rescued by the Lady of the Lake and...
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Mary Hamilton (redirect from Mary Hamilton (ballad))
a Queen of Scotland. It is Child Ballad 173 and Roud 79. In all versions of the song, Mary Hamilton is a personal attendant to the Queen of Scots, but...
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wrote the film's songs), produced by Michaels and George Folsey Jr. (who also served as second unit director), and starring Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin...
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