#story songs for swooning to
My Good Thing of the week: songs telling tales of magical romance
Sadly my collection is rather small still:
- Heather Dale’s The Maiden and the Selkie, in which a woman and a selkie lord find a way to marry and live together
- Lisa Theriot’s Hallow’s Eve, in which a healer takes a wandering ghost doomed to roam on All Hallow’s eve for a lover
- Lisa Theriot’s The Earl of Mar’s Daughter, in which a maiden is courted by a young man who is a dove by day and a human by night (a shortened version of Child Ballad 270)
If any of you have recommendations, please send them my way!
@imperiuswrecked said: The dukes eldest daughter? It’s a song about the daughter who was bullied by her sisters and she flees into the forest and elf lord saves her from a storm/falls in love with her.
Oh thank you! I found two versions of this, both written by Mercedes Lackey:
- The Duke’s Eldest Daughter sung by Heather Alexander
- The Elven Harper sung by Kathy Mar or by Burlap Lute
I have now added:
- Stan Roger’s The Witch of the Westmoreland, in which a mortally wounded knight finds a powerful (kelpie-like?) witch who heals him with magic and kisses
And I’m going to give honorary inclusion to these enchanted humans:
- Anaïs Mitchell’s Tam Linn (Child 39), where brave Janet wins her wood-dwelling, rose-guarding changeling groom from the fairy queen
- Lisa Theriot’s The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Child 31), in which Gawain frees Dame Ragnell from her beastly transformations
When you found a post about songs that you know
