TY - BOOK AU - Child,Francis James TI - The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5) AV - PR PY - 2014/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Ballads, English -- England -- Texts KW - Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts N1 - 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; Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44969 ER -