The English And Scottish Popular Ballads volume V21
The English And Scottish Popular Ballads volume V21
Francis James Child
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' Lord Ingram and Gil Viett, ' Skene MS. , p. 16. Wa'yates and Anld Ingram, ' Jamieson's Popular Ballads, II, 265. D. 'Lord Ingram and Childe Viat, ' Kinloch MSS, V, 323. C. 'Auld Ingram, ' Herd's MSS, I, 169, II, 84; 'Lord E. 'Lord Ingrain and Childe Vyet, ' Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 234. C WAS furnished Jamieson from Herd's MSS by Scott, and underwent a few slight changes in publication. Jamieson inquired through the Scots Magazine, October, 1803, p. 699, for the conclusio...n, which is wanting, but unsuccessfully. The only variation of much moment in the five versions of this tragedy is that, in C, the bridegroom and the lover are not brothers, but uncle and nephew. Some inconsistencies have been created in the course of tradition. The bride's insisting on having twenty men before her and twenty on each side, ere she will go to kirk, not to mention the extrava- * This stanza, which comes in here with flagrant impro- priety, is a commonplace, or movable passage. It occurs, as a feature in the ceremony of a brilliant wedding, in ' Fair gance of twenty milk-white doves above her head, C 22, * is incompatible with her aversion to the " weary wedding, " and with her lan- guage about the bridegroom's gifts in C 4, 5, D 4-6, E 8-10.
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