Willie's Lyke-Wake
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Traditional song
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"Willie's Lyke-Wake" (Roud 30, Child 25) is an English-language folk song.[1][2]
Variants
The hero who feigns death to draw a timid maiden is a common ballad theme; even more common is for a heroine to use it to gain a husband, as in "The Gay Goshawk".[1]
Danish variants occur in manuscript in the sixteenth century, and continued in oral tradition for centuries. It is among the commonest ballads in Danish, and is known in Magyar, Slovenian, and Italian variants.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 Child, Francis James, ed. (1890). Willie's Lyke-Wake. Vol. I Part 1. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. pp. 244–247. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ "Willie's Lyke-Wake". The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Internet Sacred Text Archive. 2011. Retrieved 2017-11-19.[dead link]
- ↑ Waltz, Robert B.; Engle, David G. (2012). "Willie's Lyke-Wake". Folklore The Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World. California State University, Fresno. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
