{"id":555,"date":"2005-11-06T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2005-11-06T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T22:56:00","slug":"555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Scarborough Fair<\/strong><\/p>\n

Listening to the Mediaeval Baebes’<\/a> short version of “Scarborough Fair” on Mirabilis<\/em>, I got to thinking about the different lyrics of this old song.<\/p>\n

The version available at this site<\/a> make it clear that the singer is asking his lover to perform a series of impossible tasks, for example, to find an acre of land between the ocean’s foam and the sandy beach or to plow with the horn of a lamb.<\/p>\n

The folksong collector Martin Carthy<\/a> considered it to be a version of the “Elfin Knight” ballad<\/a>, like “The False Knight on the Road<\/a>,” in which an elfin\/demonic knight asks a young traveler a series of trick questions.<\/p>\n

So is the list of herbs a form of herbal magic or part of the more Victorian “language of the flowers,” as the first site suggests?<\/p>\n

Mediaeval Baebes<\/a>, Scarborough Fair<\/a>, Martin Carthy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scarborough Fair Listening to the Mediaeval Baebes’ short version of “Scarborough Fair” on Mirabilis, I got to thinking about the different lyrics of this old song. 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