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{{One source|date=May 2015}}'''Lord Lovel''' is [[Child ballad]] number 75, in existing in several variants.<ref>[[Francis James Child]], ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch075.htm "Lord Lovel"]</ref> |
{{One source|date=May 2015}}'''Lord Lovel''' is [[Child ballad]] number 75, in existing in several variants.<ref>[[Francis James Child]], ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch075.htm "Lord Lovel"]</ref> This ballad is originally from [[England]], originating in the 16th century in the regions of [[Gloucestershire]], [[Somerset]], [[Worcestershire]], [[Warwickshire]], and [[Wiltshire]]<ref>rancis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v 5, p 790, Dover Publications, New York 1965</ref> |
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Lord Lovel is Child ballad number 75, in existing in several variants.[1] This ballad is originally from England, originating in the 16th century in the regions of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire[2]
Synopsis
A lord tells the lady he loves that he is going in a journey that will take several years. After a time, he longs to see her. He returns whereupon he hears of her death, and dies of grief.
The journey that Lord Lovel undertakes is a pilgrimage, a quest to a holy shrine.
Variants
Forms of this ballad are very common in Scandinavia and Germany.[3]
The ballads, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet and Fair Margaret and Sweet William contain some similar themes, but in those ballads, the hero is actively fickle, seeking another bride.[4]
A closer equivalent to this ballad is Lady Alice, Child ballad 85.[5]
References
- ^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Lord Lovel"
- ^ rancis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 5, p 790, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 204-6, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 204, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 279, Dover Publications, New York 1965
External links
- Lord Lovel with history
- Lord Lovel in several variants from Brewster's Ballads and Songs of Indiana
- Lord Lovel (Oxford Book of Ballads, 1910)
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