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Sir Lionel is the younger son of King Bors of Gaunnes and Evaine and brother of Bors the Younger in Arthurian legend since the Lancelot-Grail cycle. He is a double cousin of Lancelot and cousin of Lancelot's younger half-brother Ector de Maris. He later became the subject of one of the famous Child Ballads (#18).
"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads. The subject matter is frequently associated with the genre of the Halewyn legends circulating in Europe. There are a number of variants with different names.
The Famous Flower of Serving-Men or The Lady turned Serving-Man is a traditional English language folk song and murder ballad. Child considered it as closely related to the ballad The Lament of the Border Widow or The Border Widow's Lament.
"Unusually, it is possible to give a precise date and authorship to this ballad. It was written by the prolific balladeer, Laurence Price, and published in July 1656, under the title of The famous Flower of Serving-Men. Or, The Lady turn'd Serving-Man. It lasted in the mouths of ordinary people for three hundred years: what a tribute to the work of any writer, leave alone the obscure Laurence Price. Oral tradition, however, has made changes. The original has twenty-eight verses and a fairy-tale ending: “And then for fear of further strife, / he took Sweet William to be his Wife: / The like before was never seen, / A Serving-man to be a Queen”. - Roy Palmer, A Book of British Ballads
"The Laily Worm and the Machrel of the Sea" is Child ballad number 36.
"Hind Horn" is a traditional English and Scottish folk ballad.
"Hind Etin" is a folk ballad existing in several variants.
Child Waters is Child ballad number 63, existing in several variants.
"The Fair Flower of Northumberland" is a folk ballad.
The Bent Sae Brown is Child ballad 71.
Fause Foodrage is Child ballad 89, existing in several variants.
Old Robin of Portingale is a Child ballad only found in the Percy Folio.
"Gil Brenton" is Child ballad 5, Roud 22, existing in several variants.
The Clerk’s Twa Sons o Owsenford is Child ballad 72.
Sweet William's Ghost is an English Ballad and folk song which exists in many lyrical variations and musical arrangements. Early known printings of the song include Allan Ramsay's The Tea-Table Miscellany in 1740 and Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry in 1765. Percy believed that the last two stanzas of the version he published were later additions, but that the details of the story they recounted were original.
Clerk Saunders is Child ballad 69. It exists in several variants.
Willie's Fatal Visit is Child ballad 255.
"Brown Robyn's Confession" is Child ballad 57.
"Proud Lady Margaret" is Child ballad 47, existing in several variants.
Will Stewart and John is Child ballad 107, indexed as such in Francis James Child's 19th century collection of English and Scottish ballads.
The Twa Knights is a traditional Scottish ballad. It was collected by Francis James Child as Child ballad number 268. It is highly possible that the ballad was popularly unknown in Scotland, and only known through print. It has since been given the Roud number of 303.
References
- ↑ Child, Francis (1857). English and Scottish Ballads, Vol 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 210–213.
- ↑ "Child's Ballads/265" . Retrieved 13 February 2012.
