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"The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea" is Child ballad number 36.
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"The Fair Flower of Northumberland" is a folk ballad.
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"Gil Brenton" is Child ballad 5, Roud 22, existing in several variants.
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"The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is an English Arthurian ballad, collected as Child Ballad 31. Found in the Percy Folio, it is a fragmented account of the story of Sir Gawain and the loathly lady, which has been preserved in fuller form in the medieval poem The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle. The loathly lady episode itself dates at least back to Geoffrey Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales. Unlike most of the Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian "King Arthur and King Cornwall" and "The Boy and the Mantle", "The Marriage of Sir Gawain" is not a folk ballad but a song for professional minstrels.
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"The Carnal and the Crane" is Child Ballad 55 and a Christmas carol. It depicts a conversation between two birds—apparently, although the species of the "carnal" has never been identified with any certainty, though crow is generally assumed.
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References
- ↑ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Brown Robyn's Confession"
- 1 2 Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 13, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 245, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 15, Dover Publications, New York 1965
