The Well Below the Valley

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"The Well Below The Valley" (more properly "The Maid and the Palmer"; aka. "The Maid of Coldingham" ) (Roud 2335, Child ballad 21) is an English language medieval murder ballad with supernatural/religious overtones. Believed lost in the oral tradition in the British Isles from the time of Sir Walter Scott, who noted a fragment of it having heard it sung in the early years of the nineteenth century, it was discovered in the repertoire of a living Irish singer

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