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'Bonny Bee Hom' is Child ballad 92.[1]
A lady laments that her love had left her. He, still there, comes to comfort her but tells her that he is sworn to leave. She gives him a ring: while he wears it, he will shed no blood, but if he sees the stone fade, he will know she is dead. He has not been gone more than months when the stone does. He gives all his goods as alms, and dies.
The magic ring is found also in the ballad ''Hind Horn''.[2]
1. Francis James Child, ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', "Bonny Bee Hom"
2. Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v 2, p 317, Dover Publications, New York 1965
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Synopsis
A lady laments that her love had left her. He, still there, comes to comfort her but tells her that he is sworn to leave. She gives him a ring: while he wears it, he will shed no blood, but if he sees the stone fade, he will know she is dead. He has not been gone more than months when the stone does. He gives all his goods as alms, and dies.
Motifs
The magic ring is found also in the ballad ''Hind Horn''.[2]
References
1. Francis James Child, ''English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', "Bonny Bee Hom"
2. Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v 2, p 317, Dover Publications, New York 1965
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