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24 Sep 03 - 07:34 PM (#1024638) Subject: Lyr Req: Lady Marcie, Lady Marcia From: friskett Hello, I'm trying to track down a ballad that I know only from a fragment given by Stanley Robertson in the School of Scottish Studies publication Tocher, #40. As far as I know it's not in Child or Bronson, though I could of course be wrong about that. I haven't found it in Greig-Duncan either. The story is of Lady Marcie (Lady Marcia?) who, while out wandering by a "hallow" tree (which Stanley specifically mentions does not mean "hollow") sees an enticing stranger riding a horse. Intrigued, she returns, and sees him again, but has trouble actually seeing the horse. On the third visit she realizes that the stranger is not in fact a man, but "half man and half beast," a centaur. But she's in love with him, and when he invites her, absconds with him in a cloud of metaphors, never to be seen again by mortals. Does anyone have any leads on this ballad? Stanley says in the article that he heard it from a traveller, Maggie Stewart. thanks in advance, Kim |
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24 Sep 03 - 07:47 PM (#1024643) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lady Marcie, Lady Marcia From: Malcolm Douglas For interested readers, the Tocher piece can be seen (and heard) online at http://www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk/Tocher/Vol-40/40-205/40-205fr.html The Roud Folk Song Index doesn't list this one as yet. On the face of it, it seems pretty unlikely that any more of it is known than in this sole example; but you never know what might come up, of course. |
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03 Nov 03 - 01:58 PM (#1046965) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lady Marcie, Lady Marcia From: MMario refresh |