The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #28469   Message #353451
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
07-Dec-00 - 11:19 PM
Thread Name: Info needed for 'Two Ravens'
Subject: RE: Info needed for 'Two Ravens'
Mary's instructions for searching here will find you quite a lot of material: try searches for child #26, twa corbies, and three ravens.  "Twa Corbies" isn't necessarily the same song, but it is generally considered to be related; certainly, Child grouped them together.
BR>

In case you don't know how to find the site Bruce mentions, here are a couple of useful links for you:

Early Child Ballads

Ravenscroft's "Melismata"

You might also have a look at   The Traditional Ballad Index  -do a search for three ravens.

By the way, it's usually a good idea not to start two separate threads on the same subject; makes things unnecessarily complicated!

Malcolm