Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

100. Willie o Winsbury

The story of this ballad is similar to that of 'Johnie Scot' (No. 99), but Willie's extreme beauty moves the king to offer his daughter to him in marriage, without a combat.

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