Willie o Douglas Dale

Willie o Douglas Dale

Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale is Child ballad 101. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch101.htm "Willie o Couglas Dale"] ]

ynopsis

Willie goes to court, and he and a lady fall in love. When she is pregnant, they flee, but she goes in labor on the way, and gives birth to a son. They go on with the child and reach his father's lands.

Motifs

This ballad contains elements from "Willie and the Earl Richard's Daughter" and (somewhat less) "Leesome Brand". [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 2, p 406, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

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