O WAKEN, WAKEN, BURD ISBEL from "Young Beichan", also known as "Lord Bateman", "Lord Bakeman", "Lord Baker", "Young Bicham" and "Young Bekie", is a traditional folk ballad Beichan, who is often born in London, travels to far lands. He is taken prisoner, with different captors appearing in different variations, usually being a Moor or a Turk, though sometimes the king of France after Beichan fell in love with his daughter. Lamenting his fate, Beichan promises to be a son to any married woman who will rescue him, or a husband to an unmarried one. The daughter of his captor rescues him, and he le
O WAKEN, WAKEN, BURD ISBEL from "Young Beichan", also known as "Lord Bateman", "Lord Bakeman", "Lord Baker", "Young Bicham" and "Young Bekie", is a traditional folk ballad Beichan, who is often born in London, travels to far lands. He is taken prisoner, with different captors appearing in different variations, usually being a Moor or a Turk, though sometimes the king of France after Beichan fell in love with his daughter. Lamenting his fate, Beichan promises to be a son to any married woman who will rescue him, or a husband to an unmarried one. The daughter of his captor rescues him, and he leaves, promising to marry her. He does not return. She sets out after him—in some variants, because warned by a household spirit, Belly Blin, that he is about to marry—and arrives as he is marrying another. In some variants, he is constrained to marry; often he is fickle. His porter tells him of a woman at his gate, and he instantly realizes it is the woman who rescued him. He sends his new bride home and marries her. that appeared in the book ' Some British ballads ' illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Publisher New York : Dodd, Mead 1919
Size: 3740px × 4678px
Location: Great Britain
Photo credit: © Historic Illustrations / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
Keywords: arthur, bakeman, baker, ballad, ballads, bateman, beckie, beichan, bekie, belly, bicham, blin, book, british, broken, captor, captors, daughter, english, famous, fell, folk, france, household, husband, idr, illustrated, illustration, king, lady, literature, lord, love, marriage, marry, moor, poem, poems, prisoner, promise, promises, promising, psi, rackham, rescue, rescues, spirit, traditional, turk, unmarried, woman, young
