01939cam a22003253u 4500 44969 UtSlPG 20260610134031.0 m cr n 260607r2014||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PR Child, Francis James, 1825-1896 The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5) Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2014 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 2014-02-20 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 1 (of 5)" by Francis James Child is a scholarly anthology published between 1882-1898. This groundbreaking collection presents 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, documenting tales of romance, supernatural encounters, outlaw adventures, and historical events. Child meticulously classified variants of each ballad, creating the definitive scholarly edition that transformed ballad study. From medieval manuscripts like "Judas" to Robin Hood legends, these darker narratives explore forbidden love, family conflict, treachery, and folk heroes—preserving centuries of oral tradition in a monumental work that remains the cornerstone of ballad scholarship. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified Ballads, English -- England -- Texts Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44969 85808 85808