#geordie
James ‘Gypsy Boy’ McCrory - Bare Knuckle Champion celebrates his win over Dave ‘The Beast’ Radford at last night’s BBad BKB event in Nottingham.
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The Vampire Rabbit of #Newcastle
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Since people seemed to enjoy my Tam Lin drawing, here is another ballad character. I guess she isn’t named in the narrative. But here is Geordie’s wife challenging the judge for her husbands life.
“But six pretty babes I had by him
The seventh one lies in my body
And I would bear them all over again
If you give me the life of my Geordie”
“Your Geordie will hang in a silver chain
Such as we don’t hang many
And he’ll be laid in a coffin brave
For your six fine sons to carry”
“I wish I had you in a public square
The whole town gathered around me
With my broad sword and a pistol too
I’d fight you for the life of my Geordie”
Have a few other folk songs I want to illustrate so stay tuned!
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“Kieran is not yet twenty. Only a boy.”
This line reminds me of Geordie, a song that comes from an ancient british ballad and has a lot of adaptations. In Italy the version sung by Fabrizio De Andrè is really famous even though it has something like 50 years, and I connect it to this scene in LoS since the first time I read it because I always though that Gwyn loved Kieran like a father in his own way -at least, he loved him more than Kieran’s own father did- and for years I have been sure the lady of the song was Geordie’s mother instead of her lover/wife (don’t ask me why, I still do not understand the reason) so the parallelism between her and Gwyn wanted to save their sons was istinctive and inevitable.
In case someone do not know what the song tells, that’s basically the story of a woman weeping because her lover, a very young man no more than a teen, would have been executed soon by hanging for stealing some of the king’s deers. A boy who reminded me a lot of Kieran, both their actions guided not by selfishness but by hunger, by fear, by the desire to take care of their loved ones and do not lose them.
The woman went to London to pray the king to spare Geordie (the only thing she could do as she was powerless was rely in someone else who had the will and the power to save him, similar with Gwyn, who loved both boys and could only hope his words would convince Mark to save Kieran) and moved the crowd with her words, especially when she said “Save his lips, save his smile/ He doesn’t have twenty years yet/ Winter will fall on his face too/ You can hang him then”.
Contrary of Kieran’s, Geordie’s story does not have an happy ending -well, since I have not finished QoAaD yet, I don’t know if Kieran will have a happy ending (or even if he will survive), but at least he wasn’t executed by his own father.
Even though his lover’s prayers moved everyone, king included, the laws could not and must not change (“Although they will mourn him with you/ The Law cannot change”), just as the Law of Shadohunters and the Fairy Folk.
