Mudcat Café message #3507896

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Thread #53810 Message #3507896
Posted By: GUEST
23-Apr-13 - 04:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Red Rose & Briar but NOT Barbara Allen
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Red Rose & Briar but NOT Barbara Allen

So Liz, you believe that troubadors and minstrels are the ones responsible for tacking this rose brier motif onto the end of roughly 10 of Child's ballads. You believe that they have been tacking this motif to ballads liberally since about 1300 onwards?