01862cam a22003253u 4500 63116 UtSlPG 20260610134444.0 m cr n 260607r2020||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Child, Francis James, 1825-1896 The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 4 (of 5) Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2020 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Ballads Release date is 2020-09-04 Produced by Richard Tonsing, Katherine Ward, Alicia Williams, David T. Jones, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 4 (of 5)" by Francis James Child is a scholarly anthology published between 1882-1898. This volume forms part of Child's monumental collection of 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland. The ballads explore dark themes including forbidden love, supernatural encounters, family conflict, murder, and folk heroes like Robin Hood and King Arthur. Child's systematic approach—classifying variants and comparing versions—created the definitive scholarly edition of these centuries-old songs, preserving stories ranging from medieval manuscripts to eighteenth-century broadsides. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Ballads, English -- England -- Texts Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63116 103940 103940