Robyn and Gandeleyn

Robyn and Gandeleyn is Child Ballad 115. The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century.[1] Despite the similarity of the main character's name, Child believed that the ballad is not connected to the story of Robin Hood.[2]

Synopsis

Robyn kills a deer and is shot and killed. Gandeleyn looks about for the killer and finds Wrennok of Donne. They exchange words, and Gandeleyn says they shall shoot at a mark of each other's hearts. Gandeleyn kills him and declares he cannot boast of killing both Robyn and his man.[2]

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gollark: Then that got dropped for easier transmission at some point.
gollark: As hard as it is to track down the original version of memes, the first one was a video of some kind with them reading it out I think?
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References

  1. Child, Francis James (1904). Sargent, Helen Child; Kittredge, George Lyman (eds.). English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  2. Child, Francis James, ed. (1890). English and Scottish Popular Ballads. V Part 1. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. pp. 12–14. Retrieved 2017-11-12.


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