The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #127154   Message #2832945
Posted By: Jim Carroll
08-Feb-10 - 11:33 AM
Thread Name: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
Subject: RE: Anti-Heroines in Traditional Song?
The lady with her 'hair pinned to the ground' in The Three Butchers - anybody's mother in a ballad, Queen of Elfland in Tam Lin, the wife of William Hare and McDougal in Burke and Hare... how long have you got?
Jim Carroll