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Thread #103975   Message #2124630
Posted By: The Borchester Echo
13-Aug-07 - 06:52 AM
Thread Name: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
Subject: RE: Arabic & African names in English songs & stories
No takers for Sofia the Saracen's daughter then?
(The actual heroine of Lord Bateman, to quote Shirley Collins).
This is one of the most miraculous (and widespread) medieval tales.
Not to mention the probable genesis of Thomas Becket.
(This would, of course, involve discounting the mondegreen that sets it in Torquay and throws doubt on her being a Turkish princess at all).