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Young Beichan or Young Bekie is Child ballad number 53, existing in many variants.[1] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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An illustration from Alices Adventures in Wonderland Arthur Rackham (September 19, 1867 – September 6, 1939) was a prolific British book illustrator. ...
The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child. ...
Synopsis
Illustration by Arthur Rackham: Burd Isobel woken by Belly Blin, with the warning that Young Beckie is about to marry. Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Beichan is born in London but travels to far lands. He is taken prisoner, usually by a Moor, though sometimes by the king of France after he fell in love with his daughter. Lamenting his fate, he promises to be a son to any married woman who will rescue him, or a husband to an unmarried one. The daughter of his captor rescues him, and he leaves, promising to marry her.
He does not return. She sets out after him — in some variants, because warned by a household spirit Belly Blin, that he is about to marry — and arrives as he is marrying another. In some variants, he is constrained to marry; often he is fickle. His porter tells him of a woman at his gate, and he instantly realizes it is the woman who rescued him. He sends his new bride home and marries her. The false hero is a stock character in fairy tales. ...
Variants Elinborg waiting for Paetur, in a Faroese variant. This ballad is also known in Norse, Spanish, and Italian variants.[2]
A Scandavian variant, Harra Pætur & Elinborg, the hero set out on a pilgrimage, after asking the heroine, his betrothed, how long she would wait for him; she says, eight years. After the eight years, she sets out and the rest of the ballad is the same, except that Paetur has a reason for his fickleness: he was magically made to forget.[3]
The motif of a hero magically made to forget his love and remembering her on her appearance is common; it may even have been dropped from Young Beichan, as the hero always returns to the heroine with a promptness of an enchantment breaking.[4] Other folktales with this motif include Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devil's Daughter, The Two Kings' Children, The Master Maid, Anthousa, Xanthousa, Chrisomalousa, Snow-White-Fire-Red, The True Bride, and Sweetheart Roland. Jean, the Soldier, and Eulalie, the Devils Daughter is a French fairy tale collected by Achille Millien. ...
The Two Kings Children is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimms Fairy Tales, tale number 113. ...
The Master Maid is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Asbjørnsen and Moe. ...
Snow-White-Fire-Red is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. ...
The True Bride or The True Sweetheart is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm in Grimms Fairy Tales as tale 186. ...
Sweetheart Roland is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, number 56. ...
See also Hind Horn (Roud 28, Child 18) is traditional folk ballad. ...
References - ^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Young Beichan"
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 459, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 459-61, Dover Publications, New York 1965
- ^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 461, Dover Publications, New York 1965
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 - September 11, 1896), was an American scholar and educationist, and collector of what came to be known as the Child Ballads. ...
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