Recordings & Info 101. Willie O Douglas Dale
[There are no known recordings of this ballad.]
CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad index
3) Wiki
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1) Roud No. 65: Willie O Douglas Dale (17 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Willie o Couglas Dale
William O' Douglassdale
Dame Oliphant
Traditional Ballad Index: Willie o Douglas Dale [Child 101]
NAME: Willie o Douglas Dale [Child 101]
DESCRIPTION: Willie goes to serve at the English court. He loves and impregnates the king's daughter, Dame Oliphant. They leave the court; the child is born in the woods, They recruit a shepherdess and sail to Douglas Dale where he is lord and she now lady.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: 1783/1799 (GordonBrown/Rieuwerts)
KEYWORDS: love royalty nobility pregnancy escape childbirth home
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES: (9 citations)
Child 101, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (4 texts)
Bronson 101, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (2 versions)
GordonBrown/Rieuwerts, pp. 98-105, "Willy o Douglass Dale" (2 parallel texts plus a photo of the badly-transcribed tune; also two reconstructed tunes on p. 265)
GlenbuchatBallads, pp. 63-67, "Dame Oliphant"; pp. 67-71, "William O' Douglassdale" (2 texts)
GreigDuncan5 1010, "Willie of Douglasdale" (2 texts)
BarryEckstormSmyth p. 454, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (notes only)
Leach, pp. 310-313, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (1 text)
DBuchan 20, "Willie o Douglas Dale" (1 text, 1 tune in appendix) {Bronson's #1}
DT 101, WILDOUG
Roud #65
CROSS_REFERENCES:
cf. "Willie and Earl Richard's Daughter" [Child 102] (plot)
Willie o Douglas Dale; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Willie o Couglas Dale or Willie O Douglas Dale is Child ballad 101.[1]
Synopsis
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.[2]
References
1.^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Willie o Couglas Dale"
2.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 2, p 406, Dover Publications, New York 1965