Project Gutenberg 2014-12-17 Public domain in the USA. 149 Child, Francis James 1825 1896 Child, F. J. (Francis James) The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5) Produced by Simon Gardner, Katherine Ward, Alicia Williams, David T. Jones and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Volume 2" by Francis James Child is a collection of folk ballads edited in the late 19th century. This volume features a rich array of traditional ballads that capture the stories and themes prevalent in English and Scottish oral literature, including tales of love, tragedy, and adventure, some of which date back to earlier centuries. The opening of this volume begins with an introduction to the compilation, discussing the sources and versions of the ballads it contains. It details the editorial effort behind presenting these songs, emphasizing the importance of preserving the originals with their various dialects and archaic forms. The first ballad featured is "The Cherry-Tree Carol," which tells a miraculous tale involving Mary and Joseph, where the miraculous bending of a cherry tree allows Mary to fulfill her desires during their flight into Egypt. Other ballads are listed with brief annotations, indicating the depth of tradition behind each song and their cultural significance, setting the stage for a wider exploration of British folklore within the subsequent pages. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Ballads, English -- England -- Texts Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Music 3042948 3042949 2024-09-20T04:23:44.055284 2023-09-20T14:29:45.659700 text/html text/html 3113040 2014-12-17T09:42:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 688769 2014-12-17T09:44:02 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 830951 2024-09-20T04:28:23.535386 application/epub+zip 873600 2024-09-20T04:25:37.742215 application/epub+zip 837887 2024-09-20T04:24:40.894016 application/epub+zip 2127950 2024-09-20T04:29:04.107154 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3872185 2024-09-20T04:26:37.943379 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3799875 2022-09-21T16:04:26.008316 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1829928 2024-09-20T04:23:21.323396 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1830125 2014-12-17T09:41:58 text/plain; charset=utf-8 603084 2014-12-17T09:44:02 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1829074 2014-12-17T09:42:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 601749 2014-12-17T09:44:02 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1833153 2014-12-17T09:43:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 602921 2014-12-17T09:44:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21639 2024-09-20T04:29:04.473144 application/rdf+xml 23458 2024-09-20T04:24:42.263966 image/jpeg 5092 2024-09-20T04:24:41.588052 image/jpeg 779207 2024-09-20T04:23:44.240267 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia