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Thread #139929   Message #3216747
Posted By: Susan of DT
01-Sep-11 - 07:12 PM
Thread Name: How old are the oldest Child ballads?
Subject: RE: How old are the oldest Child ballads?
When is a song the same song - a perennial problem. I remember my Brit Lit course (45 years ago) using Norton Anthology with a version of the Riddle Song (I gave my love a cherry) as something like "I Had a Young Syster" from the 1100s or 1200s. This appears in Captain Wedderburn, #46.