Motif Index of the Child Corpus: The English and Scottish Popular Ballad

by Natascha Würzbach, Simone M. Salz

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110142907
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/24/1995
Edition description:	Reprint 2013
Pages:	263
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Frontmatter — Contents — 1. Introduction — 2. Motif Index of the Child Ballad Corpus — 3. Summaries of ballads followed by the motifs contained — Child 1, "Riddles Wisely Expounded" - Child 99, "Johnie Scot" — Chiid 100, "Willie O Winsbury" - Child 199, "The Bonnie House O Airlie" — Child 200, "The Gypsy Laddie" - Child 299, "Trooper and Maid" — Child 300, "Blancheflour and Jellyflorice" - Child 305, "The Outlaw Murray" — 4. Appendix: References to Child Ballad-Types in Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature