Recordings & Info 41. Hind Etin
[There are no known traditional US or Canadian versions of this ballad.]
CONTENTS
1) Alternative Titles
2) Traditional Ballad Index
3) Child Collection
4) Wiki
ATTACHED PAGES: (see left hand column)
1) Roud No. 33: Hind Etin (23 Listings)
Alternative Titles
Young Akin
Young Hastings
Traditional Ballad Index: Hind Etin [Child 41]
DESCRIPTION: Lady Margaret is lured by a sound to Elmond's Wood, where (Akin/Etin) keeps her while she bears 7 sons. The eldest seeks to know why his mother is sad, then accomplishes (a reunion with her family, a pardon for his father, and) a churching for all.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST_DATE: c. 1818 (GlenbuchatBallads); Danish versions are said to date to the sixteenth century
KEYWORDS: pregnancy captivity children escape
FOUND_IN: Britain(Scotland)
REFERENCES: (10 citations)
Child 41, "Hind Etin" (3 texts)
Bronson 41, "Hind Etin" (2 versions)
GlenbuchatBallads, pp. 205-209, "Young Aikin" (1 text)
Greig #157, p. 1, "Young Aiken" (1 text)
GreigDuncan2 331, "Young Aiken" (2 texts, 1 tune) {Bronson's #2}
Leach, pp. 141-148, "Hind Etin" (2 text -- 1 from Danish)
OBB 36, "Hynd Etin" (1 text)
PBB 21, "Hind Etin" (1 text)
DBuchan 28, "Hind Etin" (1 text)
DT 41, HINDETIN*
Roud #33
NOTES: The notes in GlenbuchatBallads, following Child, observe that the British versions of this ballad are far less supernatural than the Scandinavian equivalents. This makes it interesting to note that, although child calls the kidnapper "Etin," most of the handful of field collections call him "Aiken." Was Hind Etin originally thought of as an etin (troll)? And was he then naturalized? I doubt we can answer this with certainty. - RBW
Child Collection: Hind Etin 041
Child No.--Artist -- Title-- Album- Date- Have Rec
041 Agnes Buen Vargas & Jan Garbarek Venelite Rosensfole: Medieval Songs from Norway 1988 7:40 Yes
041 Alex Robb Young Akin The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
041 Arve Moen Bergset Margit Hjukse Arvesølv 1987 6:09 Yes
041 Bell Duncan Young Akin (1) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
041 Bell Duncan Young Akin (2) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
041 Bell Duncan Young Akin (3) The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
041 Det Syng! Agneta Og Havmannen Ballader På Vandring 1996 1:43 Yes
041 Gåte Venelite Liva 2006 No
041 Gavin Davenport Young Hastings Brief Lives 2010 No
041 Gjallarhorn Näcken Och Jungfrun (The Water-Sprite and the Maiden) Sjofn 2000 3:15 Yes
041 Gunnfjauns Kapell Den Bergtagna Dansä Läite 2001 6:54 Yes
041 Hulling Näcken Och Jungfrun Hårdhajen 1998 3:27 Yes
041 Karelian Folk Music Ensemble Den Bergtagna Julafton To Drive the Dark Away - Songs and Dances for the Winter Solstice from Russia, Finland, Sweden & Norway 1996 1:37 Yes
041 Lena Larsson Den Bergtagna Den Medeltida Balladen (The Medieval Ballad) - Folk Songs in Sweden 1995 3:11 Yes
041 Lena Larsson Näcken Förför Jungfrun (Med Bössan På Axeln) Lena, Ulrika and Svea - Three Traditional Folk Singers - Folk Music in Sweden, Vol. 9 & 10 1996 No
041 Miss Fowlie Young Akin The James Madison Carpenter Collection 1927-1955 No
041 Ranarim Näcken Bortför Jungfrun För Världen Älskar Vad Som Är Brokot (Life Loves the Unexpected) 2003 3:42 Yes
041 Sonja Savig Margit Hjukse Nu Takk for Alt (Now Thanks for Everything) 1981 6:12 Yes
041 Sorten Muld Venelite Mark II 1997 4:40 Yes
041 Svanevit Jungfrun Och Näcken Rikedom Och Gåvor 2008 4:36 Yes
041 Svea Jansson Den Bergtagna Den Medeltida Balladen (The Medieval Ballad) - Folk Songs in Sweden 1995 1:38 Yes
041 Svea Jansson Näcken Bortför Jungfrun Den Medeltida Balladen (The Medieval Ballad) - Folk Songs in Sweden 1995 1:47 Yes
Hind Etin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Child's Ballads/41 "Hind Etin" (Roud 33, Child 41) is a folk ballad existing in several variants.[1]
Synopsis
Lady Margaret goes to the woods, and her breaking a branch is questioned by Hind Etin, who takes her with him into the forest. She bears him seven sons, but laments that they are never christened, nor she herself churched. One day, her oldest son goes hunting with Hind Etin and asks him why his mother always weeps. Hind Etin tells him, and then one day goes hunting without him. The oldest son takes his mother and brothers and brings them out of the woods. In some variants, they are welcomed back; in all, the children are christened, and their mother, churched.
Motifs
The meeting in the woods is often similar, when not identical, to Tam Lin's meeting with Fair Janet.[2]
In some variants, the mother's grief expresses itself as hostility to the children, wishing they were rats and she a cat, as in "Fair Annie"; her comments inspire a child's suggestion that they try to leave, which is accomplished easily, with no reason why they could not have fled before.[3]
The etin of the Scottish version is, in Scandinavian and German versions, an elf-king, a hill-king, a dwarf-king, or even a merman. Only in the Danish is the ballad found before the nineteenth century; a sixteenth-century Danish form, "Jomfruen og Dværgekongen".[4] In some versions, she is lured or forced back to her husband; this may end tragically, with her death from sorrow.[5] The German variant, "Agnes and the Mermaid", has the husband say they must divide the children, and since they have an odd number, they must split one in two.[6]
See also: Gil Brenton
The Sprig of Rosemary
References
1.^ Francis James Child, English and Scottish Popular Ballads, "Hind Etin"
2.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 340, Dover Publications, New York 1965
3.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 361, Dover Publications, New York 1965
4.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 361-2, Dover Publications, New York 1965
5.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 362-4, Dover Publications, New York 1965
6.^ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 365, Dover Publications, New York 1965