- Written by
- [Traditional]
- Language
- English
- Comments
- [Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163; Ballad Index C004; VWML AW/6/115; Bodleian Roud 21; Wiltshire 922; Mudcat 18292, 67828; trad.] This song tells the tale of a young woman who elopes with a knight who has promised to marry her (and who in some instances uses magic to charm her) but who then tries to murder her to get money, clothes and horses. By a quick-witted ruse she manages to kill him instead, and in many versions she is helped to keep this experience from her parents by a resourceful parrot. The multiple variant names include "The False-Hearted Knight", "Six Pretty Maids" and "Castle by the Sea".
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Versions
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight / The Outlandish Knight written by [Traditional] English