Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

246. Redesdale and Wise William

This ballad may be an offshoot from a widely spread story which is tediously told further on in 'The Twa Knights' (No, 268). A, sts. 1, 2, 5, are substantially a repetition of No, 245, A, 1, 2, 6, etc.

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