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Thread #139929   Message #3215927
Posted By: GUEST,Raymond Greenoaken
31-Aug-11 - 11:21 AM
Thread Name: How old are the oldest Child ballads?
Subject: RE: How old are the oldest Child ballads?
Of course, the date of the Judas manuscript is not necessarily the terminus post quem of the poem. It might have been around long before it was copied out onto that manuscript. Really, we're grasping at sunbeams here...

Interesting, mind! Don't stop.