The King's Dochter Lady Jean
- The King's Dochter Lady Jean
"The King's Dochter Lady Jean" is Child ballad 52. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch052.htm "The King's Dochter Lady Jean"] ]
ynopsis
The heroine goes to the woods. A man meets her, tries to woo her, and rapes her. He asks her name, and they learn that they are brother and sister. In some variants, he kills her; in most, she goes home, and is tasked by her family for why she ails, and she and her brother both die when they meet there.
Variants
Other ballads on this theme include "Sheath and Knife", "The Bonny Hind", and "Lizie Wan". [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 185, Dover Publications, New York 1965]
The opening section parallels that of "Hind Etin" and "Tam Lin". [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 450, Dover Publications, New York 1965]
ee also
*The Bonnie Banks o Fordie
References
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