| 词条 | Lord Lovel |
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SynopsisA lord tells the lady he loves that he is going in a journey that will take several years. After a time, he longs to see her. He returns whereupon he hears of her death, and dies of grief. The journey that Lord Lovel undertakes is possibly a pilgrimage, a quest to a holy shrine, though in some versions he is going "Foreign countries for to see, see, see".[3] and in the version in Horace Walpole's letters he is going "To dwell in fair Scotland".[4] Early versionsOne known version was included in a letter written in 1765 by Horace Walpole to Thomas Percy, the compiler of "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" (1765), a source for many of Child's ballads. Walpole writes "I enclose an old ballad, which I write down from memory, and perhaps very incorrectly, for it is above five and twenty years since I learned it". In Walpole's version the lady's name is Lady Hounsibelle.[5] The song originated in the Late Middle Ages, with the oldest known versions being found in the regions of Gloucestershire, Somerset, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire.[2] Broadsides and early printed versionsThere are a number of broadside versions dating back as far as 1833.[6] The song was included in Dixon, Ancient Poems Ballads & Songs (1846). Versions collected from traditional singersThe Roud Folk Song Index lists 31 versions from England, mainly from southern counties; 18 from Scotland, (some Aberdeenshire singers knew the song as "Lord Lovat", and two Edinburgh singers knew it as "Lord Revel"); and 3 versions from Ireland, two under the title "Lord Levett" and one under the title "Lord Duneagle". There are 4 versions from Canada and 153 from the USA. One Kentucky version was titled "Lord Lovely".[7] Field recordingsThere is a fine version sung by Norfolk singer Walter Pardon in 1974 in the Reg Hall collection in the British Library Sound Archive.[8] Jeannie Robertson was recorded singing "Lord Lovat" in Aberdeen in 1953.[9] VariantsForms of this ballad are very common in Scandinavia and Germany.[10] The ballads, Lord Thomas and Fair Annet and Fair Margaret and Sweet William contain some similar themes, but in those ballads, the hero is actively fickle, seeking another bride.[11] A closer equivalent to this ballad is Lady Alice, Child ballad 85.[12] Child complained that "Lord Lovel" is prone to parody: "Therefore a gross taste has taken pleasure in parodying it".[13] A version in Roy Palmer's "A Book of British Ballads" contains this verse, describing Lord Lovel's death:
A parody collected in Virginia starts;
References1. ^Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Lord Lovel" 2. ^1 Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 5, p 790, Dover Publications, New York 1965 3. ^1 Palmer, Roy; A Book of English Ballads; Lampeter, 1980. 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://images.library.yale.edu/hwcorrespondence/page.asp?vol=40&seq=469&type=b|title=Yale edition of Walpole�s correspondence|author=|date=|website=images.library.yale.edu|accessdate=19 April 2018}} 5. ^name="Horace" 6. ^http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/static/images/sheets/05000/03104.gif 7. ^{{cite web|url=http://vwml.org/search?ts=1487706093145&collectionfilter=RoudFS;RoudBS&advqtext=0%7Crn%7C4|title=Search|author=|date=|website=vwml.org|accessdate=19 April 2018}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://sounds.bl.uk/World-and-traditional-music/Reg-Hall-Archive/025M-C0903X0063XX-0100V0|title=Lord Lovell - Reg Hall English, Irish and Scottish Folk Music and Customs Collection - World and traditional music - British Library - Sounds|author=|date=|website=sounds.bl.uk|accessdate=19 April 2018}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=http://tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/25369/6|title=Lord Lovat|author=|date=|website=tobarandualchais.co.uk|accessdate=19 April 2018}} 10. ^Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 204-6, Dover Publications, New York 1965 11. ^Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 204, Dover Publications, New York 1965 12. ^Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 279, Dover Publications, New York 1965 13. ^name="Child2" 14. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9880|title=ABE LINCOLN STOOD AT THE WHITE HOUSE GATE|first=Max|last=Spiegel|date=|website=mudcat.org|accessdate=19 April 2018}} External links
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