Selections from the Early Ballad Poetry of England and ScotlandRichard John King Pickering, 1842 - 291 страници |
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... romance among the Anglo - Saxons was expressly denied by Ritson ; but he wrote pre- vious to the discovery of the long poem on Beowulf amongst the Cotton MSS . and refused to recognize the strong proofs of Northern origin in the romances ...
... romance among the Anglo - Saxons was expressly denied by Ritson ; but he wrote pre- vious to the discovery of the long poem on Beowulf amongst the Cotton MSS . and refused to recognize the strong proofs of Northern origin in the romances ...
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... romance is essentially mythic : the adven- tures of Odin " The Wolf Tamer , " have become those of the mortal hero , and the whole of his ex- ploits bear a supernatural stamp . Later episodes , events , and allusions have been ...
... romance is essentially mythic : the adven- tures of Odin " The Wolf Tamer , " have become those of the mortal hero , and the whole of his ex- ploits bear a supernatural stamp . Later episodes , events , and allusions have been ...
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... the floods . " With a description of this mound , and of the obse- quies of the hero , the poem concludes . Ellis , in his Metrical Romances , has noticed Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton as founded on INTRODUCTION . XI.
... the floods . " With a description of this mound , and of the obse- quies of the hero , the poem concludes . Ellis , in his Metrical Romances , has noticed Guy of Warwick and Bevis of Hampton as founded on INTRODUCTION . XI.
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... Romance amongst our Teutonic ancestors . The character of the Anglo- Saxon " gleeman , " or minstrel , seems to have ... romances of chivalry . The Northmen who with Rollo in- vaded that district , undoubtedly brought with them the ...
... Romance amongst our Teutonic ancestors . The character of the Anglo- Saxon " gleeman , " or minstrel , seems to have ... romances of chivalry . The Northmen who with Rollo in- vaded that district , undoubtedly brought with them the ...
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... Romance , as well as of the supernatural incidents which occur in the poems of the Trouvères who fre- quented the ... Romances . This forest , it may be confidently asserted , was one of those mysterious wildernesses originally connected ...
... Romance , as well as of the supernatural incidents which occur in the poems of the Trouvères who fre- quented the ... Romances . This forest , it may be confidently asserted , was one of those mysterious wildernesses originally connected ...
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Adam Bell agayne ancient Annie Armorica arrowes awaye ballad banyshed Beowulf bonny milldams Border bright Carleile castle Cloudeslè daughter daye deare deere English Erl Richard Erle Douglas Ettricke Foreste fair Fair Annie fast fayre fight frae grete gude hall hame hand harpe Harry Percy hart hast hath hill Johnie King Arthur kyng Estmere lady ladye land Lochroyan Lord Gregory mair mankynde manye milldams of Binnorie myght mynde myne never Outlaw Outlaw Murray Percy queene quoth Robin Hood Romance ryght sall sayd the kyng saye Scotland Scottish shal shalt shee sholde Sir Aldingar sir Gawaine Sir Patrick Spens Sir Walter slain slayne sore steed swerde sword syde syr Cauline thee theyr Thomas the Rhymer thre tree Trouvères tyde weel wold wood wyfe wyll Wyllyam wyth yemen
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Страница 273 - It fell about the Martinmas, When nights are lang and mirk, The carline wife's three sons came hame, And their hats were o' the birk. It neither grew in syke nor ditch, Nor yet in ony sheugh ; But at the gates o' Paradise That birk grew fair eneugh. 'Blow up the fire, my maidens I Bring water from the well ! For a' my house shall feast this night, Since my three sons are well.
Страница 279 - O wha is this has done this deed, And tauld the king o' me, To send us out, at this time of the year, To sail upon the sea ? " Be it wind, be it weet, be it hail, be it sleet, Our ship must sail the faem; The king's daughter of Noroway, 'Tis we must fetch her hame." They hoysed their sails on Monenday morn, Wi' a' the speed they may; They hae landed in Noroway, Upon a Wodensday.
Страница 172 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet...
Страница 174 - With fifteen hundred bowmen bold, All chosen men of might, Who knew full well in time of need To aim their shafts aright.
Страница 281 - O, where will I get a gude sailor To take my helm in hand, Till I get up to the tall top-mast To see if I can spy land ?" " O here am I, a sailor gude, To take the helm in hand, Till ye get up to the tall top-mast ; But I fear you'll ne'er spy land.
Страница 224 - I digg'da grave, and laid him in, And happ'd him with the sod sae green. But think na ye my heart was sair, When I laid the moul...
Страница 217 - He's lifted her on a milk-white steed, And himself on a dapple grey. With a bugelet horn hung down by his side, And slowly they baith rade away. O they rade on, and on they rade, And a...
Страница 223 - There came a man, by middle day, He spied his sport, and went away; And brought the king that very night, Who brake my bower, and slew my knight. He slew my knight, to me sae dear ; He slew my knight, and poin'd his gear : My servants all for life did flee, And left me in extremitie.
Страница 4 - In this our spacious isle, I think there is not one, But he hath heard some talk of him and little John; And to the end of time, the tales shall ne'er be done, Of Scarlock, George-a-Green, and Much the miller's son, Of Tuck the merry friar, which many a sermon made, In praise of Robin Hood, his out-laws, and their trade.
Страница 192 - Light down, light down now, true Thomas, And lean your head upon my knee; Abide ye there a little space, And I will show you ferlies three.