"The Maid" and "The Hangman": Myth and Tradition in a Popular Ballad, Volume 21 |
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... fee " in the sense of " charge for services , " twenty - almost all Scottish - use the formula " pay a fee . " " This for- mula , therefore , must also be regarded as one of considerable status in Scottish tradition . 18 Nor may " gold ...
... fee " in the sense of " charge for services , " twenty - almost all Scottish - use the formula " pay a fee . " " This for- mula , therefore , must also be regarded as one of considerable status in Scottish tradition . 18 Nor may " gold ...
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... gold and fee " development on the one hand , " hang- man , slack the rope - gold to pay my fee " on the other , both with male protagonists , may be inferred from the dominant preferences outside the tradition represented by Child's ...
... gold and fee " development on the one hand , " hang- man , slack the rope - gold to pay my fee " on the other , both with male protagonists , may be inferred from the dominant preferences outside the tradition represented by Child's ...
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... gold to pay my fee " ) , five in group B ( B10 , with " gold to pay my fee " and " willow tree , " and B78 , B79 , B81 , and B82 . Two texts in group B are " ropeman " vari- ants ; the fourth and fifth use " spare " in the injunction ...
... gold to pay my fee " ) , five in group B ( B10 , with " gold to pay my fee " and " willow tree , " and B78 , B79 , B81 , and B82 . Two texts in group B are " ropeman " vari- ants ; the fourth and fifth use " spare " in the injunction ...
Contents
The Tunes | 66 |
The Symbols | 96 |
The Tradition in Europe | 108 |
Copyright | |
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Alan Lomax Alcestis American b1 Dala b1,2 Dala Eal b3 Cal b1 Ba3 b3 Cal ballad text balladry Bertrand Bronson Bertrand H Broadwood Bronson Cal b1,2 Dala cante-fable century Charon Child Ballad County Dala Eal Dala Eal b3 daughter Eal b3 Eal b3 Fa2b English Fa2a Fa2b father Folk Song Folklore Folksongs Gallows Tree German Gf1b Hal Gfla Hal Gglb gold and fee gold and silver gold to set golden ball Gypsies hangman hold your hand I(VI Irish Julius Krohn LC-AFS Leadbelly Little Sir Hugh London Losgekaufte Maid Freed melodic mid-cadence Moses Gaster mother motif n.d. reported narrative North Carolina oikotypal oral tradition pay my fee prickly bush ransom recorded Reed Smith refrain reported as learned reported by Davis rhyme Sabine Baring-Gould Scottish set me free Settlement School slack the rope Songs stanza textual Traditional Tunes variants Verb victim Virginia Volkslieder yonder