Thanks, Jon. I did OK until the bibliography, and then it got difficult. Google didn't OCR a page that started in the middle of the French sources. Should I give up? Well, at least I'm going to take a break and proof the rest of it later...

As in Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, it's easy to gloss over the information about ballads in languages other than English. But these other ballads are important stuff, and we need to pay attention to them. I wonder how many of the sources that Child cited, are available on Google. It will be an interesting path of exploration.

An expansion of the above article is available at Professor Child and the Ballad. If you have the time, it's a fascinating read.

-Joe-