Lord Lovel
Traditional
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- English
- Comments
- aka "Lord Lovell" or "Lord Lovat" [Roud 48; Child 75; G/D 6:1232; Ballad Index C075; VWML AW/6/103, CC/1/147; Bodleian Roud 48; Wiltshire 879, 880; Mudcat 150785; trad.] The earliest documented version of this tragic ballad is "The Ballad of Lady Hounsibelle and Lord Lovel" in Horace Walpole's letter to Rev. Thomas Percy on 5 February 1765. According to F.J. Child the ballad is made up of several earlier ones including Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor (Child 73), Lady Maisry (Child 65), Death and the Lady, and Barbara Allen (Child 84).
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