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The Elfin Knight, the Glossary

"The Elfin Knight" is a traditional Scottish folk ballad of which there are many versions, all dealing with supernatural occurrences, and the commission to perform impossible tasks.^[1]

46 relations: Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index, Ballad, Celtic Britons, Celts, Child Ballads, County Durham, Culhwch and Olwen, Dave Swarbrick, Elf, Ewan MacColl, Fairy tale, Folk music, Francis James Child, Girl from the North Country, Innuendo, Joel Frederiksen, John Lane (publisher), Kate Rusby, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, List of online music databases, List of the Child Ballads, Martin Carthy, Martin Carthy (album), Middleton-in-Teesdale, Nancy Werlin, Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, Omnia (band), Parent-in-law, Paul Simon, Peggy Seeger, Peter Buchan, Scarborough Fair (ballad), Scotland, Simon & Garfunkel, Supernatural, The Bodley Head, The Fause Knight Upon the Road, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Girl Who Couldn't Fly, The Wise Little Girl, United States, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Vernon Hill (sculptor), Wales, Whittingham, Northumberland.
Border ballads
Elves
Folklore featuring impossible tasks
Northumbrian folkloric beings

Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index

The Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index (ATU Index) is a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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The Britons (*Pritanī, Britanni), also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were an indigenous Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from at least the British Iron Age until the High Middle Ages, at which point they diverged into the Welsh, Cornish, and Bretons (among others).

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Celts

The Celts (see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples were a collection of Indo-European peoples.

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Child Ballads

The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. The Elfin Knight and Child Ballads are Scottish folk songs.

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County Durham

County Durham, officially simply Durham (/ˈdʌrəm/), is a ceremonial county in North East England.

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Culhwch and Olwen

Culhwch and Olwen (Culhwch ac Olwen) is a Welsh tale that survives in only two manuscripts about a hero connected with Arthur and his warriors: a complete version in the Red Book of Hergest,, and a fragmented version in the White Book of Rhydderch,. The Elfin Knight and Culhwch and Olwen are folklore featuring impossible tasks.

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Dave Swarbrick

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick (5 April 1941 – 3 June 2016) was an English folk musician and singer-songwriter.

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Elf

An elf (elves) is a type of humanoid supernatural being in Germanic folklore. The Elfin Knight and elf are Elves.

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Ewan MacColl

James Henry Miller (25 January 1915 – 22 October 1989), better known by his stage name Ewan MacColl, was an English folk singer-songwriter, folk song collector, labour activist and actor.

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Fairy tale

A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Francis James Child

Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads.

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Girl from the North Country

"Girl from the North Country" (occasionally known as "Girl of the North Country") is a song written by Bob Dylan.

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Innuendo

An innuendo is a hint, insinuation or intimation about a person or thing, especially of a denigrating or derogatory nature.

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Joel Frederiksen

Joel Frederiksen (born 1959) is an American bass singer and lutenist based in Germany, and director of early music Ensemble Phoenix Munich.

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John Lane (publisher)

John Lane (14 March 1854 – 2 February 1925) was a British publisher who co-founded The Bodley Head with Charles Elkin Mathews.

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Kate Rusby

Kate Anna Rusby (born 4 December 1973) is an English folk singer-songwriter from Penistone, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight

"Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" (Child #4; Roud #21) is the English common name representative of a very large class of European ballads. The Elfin Knight and Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight are Child Ballads and Elves.

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List of online music databases

Below is a table of online music databases that are largely free of charge.

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List of the Child Ballads

is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child and originally published in ten volumes between 1882 and 1898 under the title The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. The Elfin Knight and List of the Child Ballads are Child Ballads.

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Martin Carthy

Martin Dominic Forbes Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in English folk music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Martin Carthy (album)

Martin Carthy is the debut solo album by English folk musician Martin Carthy, originally released in 1965 by Fontana Records and later re-issued by Topic Records.

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Middleton-in-Teesdale

Middleton-in-Teesdale is a market town and civil parish in County Durham, England.

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Nancy Werlin

Nancy Werlin (born October 29, 1961, in Salem, Massachusetts) is an American writer of young-adult novels.

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Newbiggin-by-the-Sea

Newbiggin-by-the-Sea is a seaside town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, located on the North Sea coast.

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Northumberland

Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England, bordering Scotland.

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Omnia (band)

Omnia is a self-described "neoceltic pagan folk" band based in the Netherlands, whose members over the years have had Irish, Dutch, Cornish, Belgian, Indonesian, and Persian backgrounds.

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Parent-in-law

A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other's spouse.

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Paul Simon

Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter known both for his solo work and his collaboration with Art Garfunkel.

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Peggy Seeger

Margaret "Peggy" Seeger (born June 17, 1935) is an American folk singer and songwriter.

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Peter Buchan

Peter Buchan (born 4 August 1790 in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire – 19 September 1854) was a Scottish editor, publisher, and collector of ballads and folktales.

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Scarborough Fair (ballad)

"Scarborough Fair" is a traditional English ballad. The Elfin Knight and Scarborough Fair (ballad) are folklore featuring impossible tasks, Northumbrian folklore, traditional ballads and year of song unknown.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel.

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Supernatural

Supernatural refers to phenomena or entities that are beyond the laws of nature.

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The Bodley Head

The Bodley Head is an English book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House.

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The Fause Knight Upon the Road

"The False Knight Upon the Road" is a British ballad, collected and published as Child ballad 3, Roud 20. The Elfin Knight and the Fause Knight Upon the Road are Child Ballads and year of song unknown.

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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963, by Columbia Records.

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The Girl Who Couldn't Fly

The Girl Who Couldn't Fly is an album by British folk musician Kate Rusby, released in 2005.

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The Wise Little Girl

The Wise Little Girl (Мудрая дева) is a Russian fairy tale collected by Alexander Afanasyev in Narodnye russkie skazki. The Elfin Knight and The Wise Little Girl are folklore featuring impossible tasks.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House.

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