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"Hind Horn" (Child 17, Roud 28) is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad. [1]
"Hind Horn" (Child 17, Roud 28) is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad. [1]
Hind Horn and the king's daughter Jean fall in love. He gives her a silver wand, and she gives him a diamond ring and tells him when the stones grow pale, he has lost her love. One day, on his travels, he sees it growing pale and sets out for her father's castle. A beggar tells him that the king's daughter is going to marry, and he persuades him to trade clothing. Hind Horn gets to the castle and begs a cup of wine; when the king's daughter gives it to him, he drops the ring in. She asks where he got it, and he told her she gave it to him. She declares she will throw off her fine clothing and beg with him from town to town, and he tells her that his clothing is only a disguise, she will be a great lady.
It was tradition at the time that any beggar who came to the back door of a house to beg from the bride on a wedding day would receive whatever reasonable thing he asked for.[ citation needed ]
The popular ballad contains little more than the climax of a tale that is told at much great length in several manuscripts: the English "King Horn", the latest parts of which are thirteenth century; the French romance, Horn et Rymenhild; and the fourteenth-century "Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild", also English, but closer to the French version. [2]
It appears to contain a stanza from "The Whummil Bore". [3]
Several Swedish variants are known, including "Herr Lagman och Herr Thor", from the sixteenth century. [4]
The hero's absence, return, disguised arrival at the wedding feast, and recognition by dropping a ring into the bride's wine cup is a common motif found in both ballads and fairy tales, [4] such as Soria Moria Castle and The Raven .
The magic ring is also found, with the same properties, in the ballad "Bonny Bee Hom". [5]
The ballad was published by William Motherwell in his Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern (Glasgow, 1827). It was collected in US, South England, Scotland, and Canada. [6]
This can be found on Bandoggs (now unobtainable) eponymous LP, and Maddy Prior's 1998 CD Flesh & Blood and 1999 live Ballads & Candles.
An adapted version can be found on Lissa Schneckenburger's 2008 album Song entitled The Old Beggar Man.
Sir Aldingar is Child ballad 59. Francis James Child collected three variants, two fragmentary, in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. All three recount the tale where a rebuffed Sir Aldingar slanders his mistress, Queen Eleanor, and a miraculous champion saves her.
"The Unquiet Grave" is an English folk song in which a young man mourns his dead love too hard and prevents her from obtaining peace. It is thought to date from 1400 and was collected in 1868 by Francis James Child, as Child Ballad number 78. One of the more common tunes used for the ballad is the same as that used for the English ballad "Dives and Lazarus" and the Irish pub favorite "Star of the County Down".
"The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea" is Child ballad number 36.
"Hind Etin" is a folk ballad existing in several variants.
Fair Annie is Child ballad number 62, existing in several variants.
Child Waters is Child ballad number 63, existing in several variants.
Leesome Brand is Child Ballad number 15 and Roud #3301.
"Sheath and Knife" is a folk ballad.
Fause Foodrage is a Scottish murder ballad of the 17th or 18th century. It was first printed by Walter Scott in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802). Scott cited Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw as the ballad's probable author.
"The Bonny Hind" is Child ballad number 50.
"Gil Brenton" is Child ballad 5, Roud 22, existing in several variants.
"The Whummil Bore" is Child ballad 27. A whummil is a tool for drilling holes.
"Earl Brand" is a pseudo-historical English ballad.
"Young Andrew" is a folk song catalogued as Child ballad 48.
Bonny Bee Hom is Child ballad 92.
"Lizie Wan" is Child ballad 51 and a murder ballad. It is also known as "Fair Lizzie".
Richie Story is Child ballad 232, existing in several variants.
"Proud Lady Margaret" is Child ballad 47, existing in several variants.
"The King's Dochter Lady Jean" is Child ballad No. 52.
"Robin Hood and the Beggar" is a story in the Robin Hood canon which has survived as, among other forms, a late seventeenth-century English broadside ballad, and is a pair out of several ballads about the medieval folk hero that form part of the Child ballad collection, which is one of the most comprehensive collections of traditional English ballads. These two ballads share the same basic plot device in which the English folk hero Robin Hood meets a beggar.
