The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28467   Message #1808506
Posted By: Janice in NJ
12-Aug-06 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: origins of 'Two Ravens'
Subject: RE: origins of 'Two Ravens'
A child's song? Perhaps.

Nay!

Child = Professor Francis J. Child, the author of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.

Twa Corbies may be a Child ballad, but it is not a children's song.