The first-mentioned sheet names the place (usually just "yon stony common") as "Gaffer Gelding".
Textual variation isn't particularly great in the broadsides. Sly Reynard the fox Printed between 18 for W. Harding B 25(492)ĭeath of the fox Printer and date unknown. As a named character, Reynard is first mentioned in the Ysengrimus (c.1149), a Latin poem about the fox’s sworn enemy, the wolf Isengrim, composed by Nivard, a monk of Sint-Pieters Abbey in Ghent. What do a weak lion king, a grief-stricken rooster, a dim-witted bear, and one really angry wolf have in. Harding B 11(1254)ĭeath of the fox Printer and date unknown. Find items like Reynard The Fox at Daedalus Books. The song continues in tradition to this day, featuring in the repertoire of the Holme Valley Hunt in Yorkshire.Ī number of broadside editions may be seen at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads. "Reynard the Fox is memorable among other things for its use of the first person and is a Sussex version of a song which, considering the name - 'Gaffer Ghylls', probably has a more northern location. Recorded by Martin Carthy on Out of the Cut (Topic Records, 1982). Source: Kennedy, D (1987) Martin Carthy: A Guitar in Folk Music. Weight: 1.18 Weight: 1.18 Height: 0.79 Width: Width: 6.14 Depth: 9. Oh the blood-thirsty hounds how they followĪnd they'll drink their lord's health in good wine It was in Stony Fields where they killed me Where the gamekeeper shot through my thigh
Lord Jones for the king's hounds did send
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