"The King's Dochter Lady Jean" is Child ballad No. 52. The King's youngest Daughter, Jane, is sitting in her bower one day when she is overcome with the...

the Queen or Lady of May or May Day. Jim Lees in The Quest for Robin Hood (p. 81) suggests that Maid Marian was originally a personification of the Virgin...

include "Sheath and Knife", "The King's Dochter Lady Jean", and "The Bonny Hind". The Ballad of Lizie Wan was the inspiration for the title song from English...

bearing the legend "God Revenge My Caus". Her intention was to show this publicly at the Cross in Edinburgh, but the King ignored her request. The King's reaction...

ability, but at the same time is a skilled swordsman and fighter. After being charged and sentenced to death for hunting a deer in the King's forest, Allan...

Knife", "The King's Dochter Lady Jean", and "Lizie Wan". The Bonnie Banks o Fordie Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "The Bonny...

Lawhead's 2006 novel Hood (King Raven Trilogy), Sir Guy, a knight-soldier, is the chief henchman of Abbott Hugo de Rainault. The 2013 book Will in Scarlet...

reproved. Thomas replied the appointed hour has not come, and shortly thereafter, the news came reporting of the king's death. The earliest notice of this...

”The Lady and the Fox,” by Kelly Link, in My True Love Gave to Me, ed. Stephanie Perkins (2014) Roses and Rot, by Kat Howard (2016) The Thyme of the Season...

"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...

ballad. When their father dies in battle against King Claudas, Lionel and Bors are rescued by the Lady of the Lake and raised in her otherworldly kingdom alongside...

1897. List of the Child Ballads The King's Dochter Lady Jean The Bonny Hind Child, Francis James. "Babylon or The Bonnie Banks o Fordie". The English and...

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...

appeared on a broadside in 1656 as "The Miller and the King's Daughter". Several historical resources are available via the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library...

robbed a lady. He stole a pair of the King’s pretty maids, And he gave them to Lord Taily. There are three versions, all called "Georgie", in the "Max Hunter...

the hero laments the death in the same language as "Sheath and Knife". Other ballads on this theme include "The Bonny Hind", "The King's Dochter Lady...

But his hawk, his hound, and lady fair. ‘His hound is to the hunting gane, His hawk to fetch the wild-fowl hame, His lady's taen another mate, So we may...

had a Baby/Cherry Tree Carol"), the King's College Choir, Cindy Kallet, Magpie Lane, Mark Lanegan, Colin Meloy, the Chad Mitchell Trio, Nowell Sing We...

is the title of the Orcadian texts, about twice in length. There is also a greatly embellished and expanded version of the ballad called "The Lady Odivere"...

Alan Lomax (1949) and Kenneth Goldstein (1961) and released on the album "The Best of Jean Ritchie" (1961) with a mountain dulcimer accompaniment. Sarah...

walking on the strand. To Noroway! to Noroway! to Noroway oer the faem! The king's daughter to Noroway 'Tis thou maun bring her hame. The first line that...

hEascainne (Song of the Eel). Several Appalachian musicians recorded the ballad; Jean Ritchie sang the Ritchie family version on the album Jean Ritchie: Ballads...

form as fairy tales. A large part of the collection is about Robin Hood; some are about King Arthur. A few of the ballads are rather bawdy. Many Child...

which the lady must perform in order to be accepted as his lover. The first verse usually opens with the introduction of the title character: The elphin...

lady-in-waiting to 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...

they will return at Christmas; the father may mean they will return as ghosts. Buell Kazee recorded the song as "Lady Gay" in 1928. Recorded by John Jacob...

the lyrics to "Dives and Lazarus" with this tune attested by Hipkins and the lady from Westminster, stating that "they suit it so well that there is a great...

obtains the Fairy King's permission to take his wife home with him by using his beautiful music playing, much the same as Orpheus did in the original...

presents made by King James to brides including; Marie Young; Jean Stewart, Lady Lovat; Margaret Stewart, Lady Traquair, Jean Stewart, Lady Bargany; and Marie...

of Robin Hood. It dates from at the latest the 17th century, and possibly originating earlier, making it one of the oldest existing tales of Robin Hood...