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King Cnut's Song And Ballad Origins, Louise Pound
King Cnut's Song And Ballad Origins, Louise Pound
Department of English: Faculty Publications
King Cnut's song, according to Professor Gummere gives us our “first example of actual ballad structure and the ballad's metrical form, which is to be met in English records." He quotes the account from the Historia Eliensis of 1166. Cnut, with his queen Emma and divers of the great nobles, was coming by boat to Ely, and, as they neared land, the King stood up, and told his men to row slowly while he looked at the great church and listened to the song of the monks which came sweetly over the water. "Then he called all who were with …
Xvii.-The Ballad And The Dance, Louise Pound
Xvii.-The Ballad And The Dance, Louise Pound
Department of English: Faculty Publications
It is the purpose of the following paper to examine the relationship of the mediceval ballad to the dance, in origin and in traditional usage. Particular reference is had to the English and Scottish ballad tvpe. In various preceding papers 1 I have considered the theory currently accepted in America of the inseparableness of primitive dance, music, and song and have shown that primitive song is not narrative in character. I have also questioned the assumption that the ballad is the archetypal poetic form- this position should be assigned to the song, not the ballad -and the assumption of " …