The Popular Ballad
The Popular Ballad
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" ' An thu sail marry a proud gunner.
An a proud gunner I'm sure he'll be ; An the very first schot that ere he schoots, He'll schoot baith my young son and me. ' " Finally, in a ballad which tells how closely the singing of it is knit in with its very being, but which is only a frag- ment, we have the mortal woman yearning for her mortal baby from the exile of Elfland, whither she has been taken to nurse the elf-queen's bairn. The repetitions lead up to the queen's promise that when the bairn ...stands, the nurse may go back home. The musical opening stanzas have been already quoted above. * "Hind Etin, " another ballad of the union of mortal and elf, has suf- fered severely in tradition; in Scandinavian versions it is effective enough.
Another group ^ deals simply with transformation by magic and the happy solution, if such is to be. Three of these are alike in essential features. "Kemp Owyne, " where incremental repetition is admirably used in the dis- enchanting process, tells how the kemp frees Dove Isabel 1 See p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" ' An thu sail marry a proud gunner.
An a proud gunner I'm sure he'll be ; An the very first schot that ere he schoots, He'll schoot baith my young son and me. ' " Finally, in a ballad which tells how closely the singing of it is knit in with its very being, but which is only a frag- ment, we have the mortal woman yearning for her mortal baby from the exile of Elfland, whither she has been taken to nurse the elf-queen's bairn. The repetitions lead up to the queen's promise that when the bairn ...stands, the nurse may go back home. The musical opening stanzas have been already quoted above. * "Hind Etin, " another ballad of the union of mortal and elf, has suf- fered severely in tradition; in Scandinavian versions it is effective enough.
Another group ^ deals simply with transformation by magic and the happy solution, if such is to be. Three of these are alike in essential features. "Kemp Owyne, " where incremental repetition is admirably used in the dis- enchanting process, tells how the kemp frees Dove Isabel 1 See p.
What to read after The Popular Ballad?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Francis Barton Gummere to read onlineMoreLess
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