The Maid and the Palmer
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the-maid-and-the-palmer-188-13753486
title:
The Maid and the Palmer
text:
"The Maid and the Palmer" is an English language medieval murder ballad with supernatural/religious overtones. Because of its dark lyrics, the song was often avoided by folk singers. Considered by scholars to be a "debased" version of a work more completely known in European sources as the Ballad of the Magdalene, the ballad was believed lost in the oral tradition in the British Isles from the time of Sir Walter Scott, who noted a fragment of it having heard it sung in the early years of the nin
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Traditional song
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Maid_and_the_Palmer
date created:
2006-07-01T21:07:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T03:29:06Z
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