Young Johnstone

Young Johnstone

Young Johnstone is Child ballad 88, a border ballad that exists in several variants.

ynopsis

Several variants open with the heroine's brother and love drinking together. One of them may propose that they each marry the other's sister. One of them kills the other: often, the brother's reason is that the other has refused to marry his sister but intends to keep her as his mistress.

In one variant, the love seeks refuge with his mother and his sister and is turned away.

In all, the surviving man seeks refuge with the heroine, confessing to having killed her brother or her love. She hides him. When his pursuers are gone, he stabs her. She remonstrates, and he promises to get her doctors if she lives out the hour, but she tells him the wound will be mortal before then.

External links

* [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch088.htm "Young Johnstone"]


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