The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150251   Message #3505452
Posted By: Steve Gardham
18-Apr-13 - 04:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
Subject: RE: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
Regardless of Child's dislike of broadsides, again many of the ballads have a broadside as their earliest extant version, almost all of the Robin Hood ballads for instance. Not the vast majority by all means but a sizable number. Apart from which not that many Child ballads feature in the corpus we were discussing.