Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet

Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet is Child ballad 66.[1][2]

Synopsis

Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet are brothers who fall in love with the same woman, Maisry. She falls in love with Wyet and becomes pregnant by him. Her father arranges the marriage to Lord Ingram. At the wedding, he learns of the baby; he may offer to claim the baby as his own, and she refuses, or he refuses. Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet kill each other. Lady Maisry goes mad, resolving to beg, or go on pilgrimage, until she dies, and more for Lord Ingram than Chiel Wyet.

gollark: I have no idea who that is.
gollark: As opposed to passively awful for me like mostly not doing exercise.
gollark: I determined that given my horrible tendency to devalue medium/long-term stuff automatically anyway I should really not do things which are *actively* awful for me without a very good reason.
gollark: Self-driving cars will definitely be very neat when someone gets them to work mostly independently. Unless stupid lawmakers/etc. require a human constantly there to monitor it.
gollark: This is rather 🐝 logic.

References

  1. Francis James Child (1898). English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
  2. Robert Scott; James Moreira (2007). The Glenbuchat Ballads. Jackson, Mississippi, USA: University Press of Mississippi. p. 267. ISBN 9781578069729. Retrieved 12 August 2012.


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