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Thread #160772   Message #3818435
Posted By: Steve Gardham
05-Nov-16 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Berkshire Tragedy: Who done it?
Subject: RE: Origins: Berkshire Tragedy: Who done it?
I'm sure I'll get lynched for saying this but there is plenty of evidence to show some of the early nineteenth century Scottish collectors were pretty adept at taking English broadside ballads and scottifying them. Some of this would occur naturally in oral tradition and no doubt there was a degree of anglicising of Scots songs coming the other way, just not as many.