The goshawk's behaviour in the ballad certainly isn't what you'd expect of a real bird - it sings sweetly, speaks, and carries letters. Possibly it's actually a pageboy, although it's instructed to sit on a bending birch tree outside a lady's window and to sing to her.

But please can we get back to the subject of the tune? Where does the tune in the DigiTrad come from?

Valmai