Willie's Lyke-Wake

Willie's Lyke-Wake

"Willie's Lyke-Wake" is Child ballad 25. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch025.htm "Willie's Lyke-Wake"] ]

ynopsis

Willie sets up his wake and lies in his winding cloth. His love discovers this and pleads with her father to let her go. When he does, and she enters the room, Willie rouses himself and declares that he will marry her at once.

Variants

The hero who feigns death to draw a timid maiden is a common ballad theme; even more common is for a heroine to use it to gain a husband, as in "The Gay Goshawk". [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 247, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

Danish variants occur in manuscript in the sixteenth century, and continued in oral tradition for centuries. [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 247, Dover Publications, New York 1965] It is among the commonest ballads in Danish, and is known in Magyar, Slovenian, and Italian variants. [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 249-50, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

References

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/243/61.html "Willie's Lyke-Wake"]


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