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Thread #164203 Message #3937672
Posted By: Kevin Werner
16-Jul-18 - 06:34 AM
Thread Name: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
Subject: RE: Origins: James Madison Carpenter- Child Ballads 3
I was thinking about Child 11D. As far as I know in none of the other Child 11 Cruel Brother versions does a knight offer golden rings or any such gift to a woman.
The stanza,
He courted the eldest with golden rings, And the others with many fine things.