Brown Robin

Brown Robin is Child ballad 97.

ynopsis

A king's daughter waits on the table at supper and falls in love with Brown Robin. She gets her father and the porter drunk and brings him to her bower, but they stay until morning, and he does not think he can escape. She persuades her father to let her and her maids gather flowers in the woods, and dresses Brown Robin as one of them. They comment that he makes a sturdy lady but let him go.

In some variants, the tale ends there. In others, the porter shoots Brown Robin, and the king hangs him at his daughter's request. In still others, the daughter goes with Brown Robin, and the porter arranges her to reconcile with her father, later, and she settles money on him for it.

External links

* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch097.htm "Brown Robin"]