The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #128641   Message #2881839
Posted By: Deckman
07-Apr-10 - 10:27 PM
Thread Name: Myth or history
Subject: RE: Myth or history
The more "versions" of contests that happen ... the more songs we have. To me, folk song history has much more to do with the passions than the actual events ... who won ... who lost.

And it's the human passions that drive these songs. That's one reason that the song of a 200 hundred year old conflict rings so true today ... the passions remain the same. bob(deckman)nelson