== Ballad of Minnie Quay ==
''The ballad has been popular in the region for over 100 years. It has been passed down
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*In ''Child Ballad no 5c'', Gil Brenton, it is Billy Blind that advises the hero that his brid
*In ''Child Ballad no 6'', Willie's Lady, Willie's wife has been in labor and can not deliver
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...in 1778 through the translation by Johann Gottfried von Herder of a Danish ballad. Herder mistranslated the title as "king of the alders" rather than "king o
...et to music by Franz Schubert, one of the most famous Romantic lieder. The ballad was translated into Russian by Vasily Zhukovsky.
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...th") can retrieve through his great, selfless bravery. For example, in the ballad of the knight Greuceanu, the zmeu steals the sun and the moon from the sky,
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There is no authoritative version of the ballad. Robert Lambe "discovered' it as fragments, which makes sense if it had gen
...9th century scholars believed that the "Laidly Worm" was an authentic folk ballad from the past.
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...f poems and songs were written about the twins, including Martin Parker's "Ballad of the Inseparable Brothers". Bondeson's The Two-Headed Boy includes a chap
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...anzram is the subject of the World Famous Crawlspace Brothers' dark murder ballad, Just Born Bad [http://crawlspacerecords.com/TWFCB/HOME.PHP]
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*[http://mutopiaproject.org/cgibin/piece-info.cgi?id=883 Lindormen], a ballad in Swedish published at the [[Mutopia project]].
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* An early 17th century broadside ballad, "The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow", which is so deft and literate
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...as strong ties to the Isle of Man, where he is referenced in a traditional ballad [http://www.manannan.net/poetry/Traditionary_Ballad.htm] as having been the
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* In Ballad of a Shinigami, the main character is a shinigami whose job is to collect t
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...or burn it. Examples of such stories are The Grey Selkie of Suleskerry, a ballad, and the movie The Secret of Roan Inish.
*The folk musician Mike Agranoff wrote a song entitled "The Ballad of the White Seal Maid", that is a sad story of a fisherman and his selkie
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Not all lore depicts Loki as a malevolent being. An 18th century ballad (that may have drawn from a much earlier source) from the Faroe Islands, en
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In England — besides the ballad given in Thomas Percy's "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" and reprinted
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...e valkyries, Brynhildr, is also a human princess. In the Sigrdrífumál (The Ballad of the Victory-Bringer) she is never named, being called simply Sigrdrífa
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...ples of his anti-authority symbol status. Two of the most notable are "The Ballad of the Hulk" by Jerry Jeff Walker, and the ''Rolling Stone'' cover for 30 S
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...ntly bent on rape and murder, as in the ''Tale of Childe Rowland'', or the ballad ''Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight'', in which the Elf-Knight bears away Isab
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...s dangerous to the kidnapped. In ''Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight'' Child Ballad #4, the elf-knight is a [[Bluebeard]] figure, and Isabel must trick and ki
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The following excerpts from the Danish Ballad of Eline of Villenskov describe the physical aspects of trolls within Scand
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