No. 15, Leesome Brand: Recordings & Information
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CONTENTS:
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection Index
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud Number 3301: Leesome Brand (10 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Lishen Brand
Broom Blooms Bonnie
Sheath and Knife
Traditional Ballad Index: Leesome Brand [Child 15]
DESCRIPTION: Leesome Brand impregnates his love. When her time comes she has him take her riding, then go hunt, sparing the white hind. He returns to find her and his son dead. He laments his knife and sheath. His mother gives him St. Paul's blood to revive them.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: before 1827 (Motherwell)
KEYWORDS: love pregnancy death hunting resurrection
FOUND IN: FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland(Aber))
REFERENCES (6 citations):
Child 15, "Leesome Brand" (2 texts)
GreigDuncan2 335, "Lishen Brand" (1 text)
Leach, pp. 90-96, "Leesome Brand" (2 texts)
OBB 56, "Leesome Brand, or, The Sheath and the Knife" (1 text)
PBB 52, "Leesome Brand" (1 text)
DBuchan 43, "Leesome Brand" (1 text)
Roud #3301
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Sheathe and Knife" [Child 16] (lyrics about the "sheathe and knife")
Child Collection Index
Kirsten Bråten Berg Lill Lisa From Senegal to Setesdal 1997 3:47 Yes
Kirsten Bråten-Berg Lill' Lisa Suede - Norvège - Musique Des Vallées Scandinaves 1993 1:54 Yes
Sorten Muld Roselil Rose Sorten Muld III 2000 3:38 Yes
Tindra Lille Lisa Lukkeleg Vaking 2006 No
Wolverlei Een Ruiter Langs De Straat Dutch Rare Folk - 43 Lost Classics from the Golden Age of Nederfolk 1967 - 1987 2007 6:13 Yes
015 Wolverlei Een Ruiter Langs De Straat Wind Tegen 1980 6:15 Yes