Old Robin of Portingale

Old Robin of Portingale

Old Robin of Portingale is Child ballad 80.[1]

Synopsis

It opens with a warning against old men marrying young women.

Old Robin of Portingale marries the daughter of the mayor of Linn. She soon goes to Sir Gyles and asks his help in murdering her husband. They make plans to attack him with twenty-four knights. His foot page overhears and weeps in the garden. When Robin asks what it is wrong, the page tells him. He promises to make him his heir if he tells the truth, and kill him if he lies.

He tells his lady that he is sick and lies down in bed in full armor. The twenty-four knights attack, and Sir Robin kills them all. He mutilates his wife for her part in it, makes the foot page his heir, and leaves to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

See also

References

  1. ^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Old Robin of Portingale"

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