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GUEST,RA	Origins: Child Ballads in Ireland (80* d)	RE: Origins: Child Ballads in Ireland	18 Jun 18
Guest, Kevin W writes: "I also didn't know that ballads were mostly unknown Irish and Scots Gaelic culture." 'Ballads' in the Anglo-Saxon sense of rhyming quatrains might not exist in Scottish Gaelic, but then there are the ancient lays which in a narrative, if not structural sense could be construed as ballads... songs such as 'Am Bron Binn', which is notable as being a rare occurrence of Arthurian material in the Gaelic language. There's a whole book about that song, 'Am Bron Binn: An Arthurian Ballad in Scottish Gaelic' by Linda Gowans. Then there are all the fenian lays, the material from which James McPherson constructed his 'Ossian'.

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