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Leesome Brand is Child Ballad number 15 [1] and Roud #3301.
Leesome Brand is Child Ballad number 15 [1] and Roud #3301.
Leesome Brand went to court when ten years old. An eleven-year-old girl fell in love with him, but nine months later, called on him to saddle horses, take her dowry, and flee with her. They headed to his mother's house, but she went into labour on the way. He went off to hunt, but violated a prohibition she laid on him, either not to hunt a milk-white hind, or to come running when called, and she and his son died. He went home and lamented this to his mother.
Some variants stop there. In others, the mother gave him a horn with ointment that restored them both to life.
Francis James Child described this ballad as particularly ill-preserved in its Scottish form, requiring consulting foreign variants even to be sure of the plot. [2] One of its variants was so corrupted as to be barely distinguishable from "Sheath and Knife", Child Ballad 16, which laments a death in the same language. [3]
The foreign variants of this ballad include Scandinavian, German, and French forms. [4]
The heroine's difficulty riding, because of her advanced pregnancy, also features in some Scandavian variants of "Gil Brenton". [5]
"Willie o Douglas Dale" and "Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter" include similar flights, of the lovers, with the woman being pregnant and giving birth in the woods, although with altered endings. [6]
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.
"Hind Horn" is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad.
"Hind Etin" is a folk ballad existing in several variants.
Fair Annie is Child ballad number 62, existing in several variants.
"Prince Robert", also known as "Lord Abore and Mary Flynn", is Child ballad number 87, existing in several variants, and a murder ballad.
Child Waters is Child ballad number 63, existing in several variants.
The Gay Goshawk is Child ballad number 96.
"Rose the Red and White Lily" is Child ballad number 103.
"The Fair Flower of Northumberland" is a folk ballad.
"Sheath and Knife" is a folk ballad.
The Bent Sae Brown is Child ballad 71.
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.
Fair Janet is Child Ballad number 64.
Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale is Child ballad 101.
Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter is Child ballad 102.
"Gil Brenton" is Child ballad 5, Roud 22, existing in several variants.
Erlinton is #8 of the Child Ballads, the collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late nineteenth century. The collection was published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads between 1882 and 1898 by Houghton Mifflin in ten volumes and later reissued in a five volume edition.
"Earl Brand" is a pseudo-historical English ballad.
Clerk Saunders is Child ballad 69. It exists in several variants.
"Brown Robyn's Confession" is Child ballad 57.
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