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Thread #78835   Message #1423034
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
28-Feb-05 - 01:05 PM
Thread Name: Irish versions of Child Ballads
Subject: RE: Irish versions of Child Ballads
The Elfin Knight, Child #2, in a version sung by Bridget Geary of Waterford, Ireland, 1906, called "The Sea Side."
"The Knight and the Chief's daughter," "learned from an Irish nurse." (#4, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight).

A number of versions sung in Ireland can be found by thumbing through Bronson, "The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular ballads."
If your key word is "widely sung," however, I dunno.