#James arthur impossible traduzione trial#

2).' In The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles, 11-20. Niles, John Jacob, Ron Pen, and WILLIAM BARSS.'American Versions of the Ballad of the Elfin Knight.' The Journal of American Folklore 7, no.^ 'Sold on Song - Song Library - Scarborough Fair'.^ 'Can you decipher long-lost verse of historic dale song?'.Boston / Cambridge: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / The Riverside Press. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Part 9. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. ^ ' 'Ballads Weird and Wonderful' (1912), illustrated by Vernon Hill (Spirit of the Ages)'.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 8, Dover Publications, New York 1965.^ Child, notes to Ballad #2, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 'The Elfin Knight'.Several recent Scottish recordings have preserved the 'blaw winds blaw' refrain from the earliest written versions of the ballad.Ī novel by Nancy Werlin, Impossible (Penguin/Dial, 2008), was inspired by the song.įollowing are some of the notable recordings of the ballad, including the artists, titles, albums, and years: There are also several American variants, which differ greatly, among them 'My Father Had an Acre of Land', 'The Parsley Vine', and 'The Shirt of Lace'. Prior to this, Bob Dylan used Martin Carthy's version as the basis of his song ' Girl from the North Country' from his second album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963).Ī similar variant is ' Whittingham Fair', a song that was popular in the north and west of Northumberland, not far from Mark Anderson's County Durham. He taught the song to Paul Simon the same year, and Simon & Garfunkel released their own version, which was hugely successful. Martin Carthy learnt the song from MacColl's songbook, and included it on his eponymous debut album in 1965. Mark Anderson (1874-1953), a retired lead-miner from either Newbiggin-by-the-Sea or Middleton-in-Teesdale, County Durham, England, sang 'Scarborough Fair' to Ewan MacColl in 1947.

The song ' Scarborough Fair' is considered a relatively recent variant of 'The Elfin Knight', and both are officially classified as the same ballad. This ballad was one of 25 traditional works included in Ballads Weird and Wonderful which was published by John Lane's The Bodley Head in 1912 and illustrated by Vernon Hill.

#James arthur impossible traduzione trial#

In Celtic folklore, in common with many other European traditions, impossible tasks are often given to a suitor as part of a wedding trial - a well known example would be Culhwch and Olwen from Welsh Brittonic tradition where the 40 impossible tasks are set by the father-in-law (in this case the giant Ysbadadden Pen Cawr). The countering of impossible tasks with other impossible tasks is a common motif in the folktale Aarne–Thompson type 875, the Clever Girl, a fairy tale making use of this motif is The Wise Little Girl. Ye'll come to me, luve, and get your sark.' Where the dew never wat, nor the rain ever fell.ħ 'And ye maun plow 't wi your blawing horn,Ĩ 'When ye've dune, and finishd your wark, And the bonny laddie here that I luve best!