Ballads/4 "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" (Child #4; Roud #21) is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads. The most...
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taken directly from "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight", Child Ballad #4; in this ballad, the horn is magic and arouses desire in the hearer.) Meanwhile,...
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Fairy (section Spirits of the dead)
and a lambent flame playing round it. In the 19th-century Child ballad "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight", the elf-knight is a Bluebeard figure, and Isabel...
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as Thomas the Rhymer, where a man meets a female elf; Tam Lin, The Elfin Knight, and Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, in which an Elf-Knight rapes, seduces...
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Maid Marian (redirect from Robin Hood and Maid Marian)
June, most commonly around Whitsun) and is sometimes associated with the Queen or Lady of May or May Day. In The Quest for Robin Hood, Jim Lees suggests...
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Tam Lin (section Popular recordings of the ballad)
baby's father is an elf whom she will not forsake. In some versions, she is informed of a herb that will induce abortion; in all the variants, when she...
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Bluebeard (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
marvelous dogs or wild animals. Some European variants of the ballad Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, Child ballad 4, closely resemble this tale. This is particularly...
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Heer Halewijn (redirect from The Song of Lord Halewijn)
John and its variations, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight. The legends may have been the prototype of the Legend of Bluebeard. Several versions of the story...
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American folk music (redirect from Folk music of the United States)
"The Golden Vanity", The Elfin Knight, The Gypsy Davy, "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight", "Barbara Allen", Lord Bateman, The House Carpenter, The Farmer's...
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The Outlandish Knight may refer to: Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, a variant of this ballad is titled The Outlandish Knight The Outlandish Knight (novel)...
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Child Ballads (redirect from The English and Scottish Popular Ballads)
Garfunkel, and (on the soundtrack of the 2004 film A Love Song for Bobby Long) John Travolta. In 2009, Fleet Foxes included "The Fause Knight Upon the Road"...
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Guy of Gisbourne (redirect from Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne)
ambitious knight who helps Prince John solidify his power in exchange for being granted land and influence. He murders Will's uncle early in the novel, but...
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"Lady Isabel" is an English ballad known as Child Ballad 261 and Roud #3884. Her stepmother says that Lady Isabel is said to be her father's whore, and...
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Matty Groves (redirect from Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard)
related to this article: Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard "Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad...
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Christmas Gifts. McGraw Hill. Contains the essays "The Death of Lady Mondegreen" and "The Quest of Lady Mondegreen." "The Bonny Earl o'Moray". brittensongs...
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Lincoln Memorial University (category Universities and colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools)
"old world" ballads such as "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor", "The Daemon Lover", and "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight." LMU is known for a rich literary history...
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variants of the ballad Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, Child ballad 4, closely resemble this tale. Gregory Frost sets the tale among the doomsday religious...
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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, but they...
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hills straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders—hence, Chevy Chase. The hunt is led by Percy, the English Earl...
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Sir Lionel (category Knights of the Round Table)
captured by the rogue knight Turquine, who whips him with briars and throws him in the dungeon. The scenario repeats itself later while he is on the Quest for...
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Alan-a-Dale (category Fictional characters introduced in the 17th century)
given the name Sir Allan Clare; he is an armed knight, not a minstrel, and he is the brother of the Maid Marian. His sweetheart is Lady Christabel, the daughter...
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encounter with the elf-queen is "Huntly Bank" and the "Eildon Tree" (versions B, C, and E) or "Farnalie" (version D) All these refer to the area of Eildon...
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from both "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight" (Child 4) and "The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child 9). This tale is found in German, Polish, and Danish variants...
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lover gave him a dinner of eels boiled in broo and that his hunting dogs died after eating the scraps of the meal, leading his mother to realize that he...
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Janet McNaughton (category Writers from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador)
An Earthly Knight drew inspiration from two ancient ballads: Tam Lin and Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight. McNaughton has been awarded the Violet Downey...
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Mary Sands (section Early life and family)
2, 1916 The Outlandish Knight (Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight), I, 5 The Golden Glove, I, 377 August 3, 1916 Lord Lovell, I, 146 Married and Single Life...
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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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tunes are also identified as "The Lady’s Fall", which was notably the tune for "Bateman’s Tragedy" (Roud 22132) and numerous other early seventeenth-century...
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Barbara Allen (song) (redirect from The Ballad of Barbara Allen)
traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love...
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Ireland and North America. It concerns a rich lady who runs off to join the gypsies (or one gypsy). Common alternative names are "Gypsy Davy", "The Raggle...
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