Fair Janet

Fair Janet

Fair Janet is Child ballad number 64. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch064.htm "Fair Janet"] ]

ynopsis

Janet is in love with Willie, but her father insists on her marrying a French lord. They may attempt to flee, but she goes into labor and can not escape. She hands their baby to Willie, for his care, and he delivers the baby to his mother and goes to the wedding. Janet is ill and dies during the dancing. In many variants, the bridegroom swears that no church bells will ring for her, and Willie that they all will. In most, Willie dies within a day, and those where he does not, the story cuts off.

Variants

Scandinavian and German ballads show many parallels with this one, although none decisive enough to point to a common origin. [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 2, p 101, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

References

External links

* [http://www.contemplator.com/child/janet.html "Fair Janet"] with history


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