Message-Id: <199810071301.JAA04491@xkey.com>
Subject: Re: minstrel: Tam Lin lyrics
To: rdeaver@swbell.net (Rex Deaver)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:01:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Greg Lindahl" <lindahl@pbm.com>
Cc: minstrel@pbm.com
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981007070729.00a1bcf0@mail.swbell.net> from "Rex Deaver" at Oct 7, 98 07:07:29 am
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> >She explained, first of all, that the best research for this piece was
> done in
> >the Victorian era.  A gentleman named F.J. Childs travelled through the
> Anglo-
> >Scottish borderlands to research medieval ballads that had survived to his
> >day, "Tam Lin" being one of them. 
> 
> Poor, deluded girl.  She doesn't know that Child isn't Period. :-) :-)

She _is_ deluded if she thought Child was researching medieval ballads
-- 95+% of his ballads aren't known to be medieval at all. For some
ballads, Child claims that it should be obvious that a ballad about
the battle of X should have been written soon after the battle of X.
Shakespeare wrote historical plays well after the fact, and in the
same era, Thomas Deloney wrote historical ballads well after the fact,
using the same source that Shakespeare did, Holinshed's _Chronicles_.

-- gb


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