35. Queen Eleanor's Confession


35. Queen Eleanor's Confession  (Child 156)

In our collection is a note under this caption, in Dr. Brown's hand, without any text, and reading as follows: "Story known in Avery county as Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor. But only portion of song. Story told by Granny Houston on Bushy Creek in Avery county, between Toe and Linville Rivers." It is too bad that the story and "portion of song" were not recorded, for hitherto the only report of this ballad in America is Margaret Reburn's in the Child correspondence in the Harvard Library, and that has not been printed. Greig reports it from Scotland.