The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150251   Message #3509314
Posted By: Jim Carroll
26-Apr-13 - 03:24 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
Subject: RE: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
Frank Kidson wrote it down in Liverpool and Fred Hamer recorded it in Lincolnshire - there is no indication that the Hamer informant "knew that their versions came from the East Riding" - I helped produce and annotate the notes of 'The Leaves of Life' from the Hamer collection and know that to be the case - can't speak for the Huddleston version.
As I said - it had entered into the national repertoire - nothing like I described as being 'local'
Jim Carroll