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2 Comments on “The Boar’s Head Carol: Magpie Lane”
Always liked this one, Kat. Performance date for it should be on December 26th according to some sources. Meantime, here are a some good ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS0rEr2wvdQ
for the original English scansion, go here:
Mark,
I also really like this song. I didn’t know about December 26th so I did some hunting. I read about its Norse history and how it became related to St. Stephen whose feast day is the 26th.
Maddy Prior has the perfect voice for this with her Steeleye Span history and her time with the Carnival band. Both have such a unique sound.
I actually translated some of the original. I guess that four years of Latin don’t just disappear but stay in the cobwebs of the mind.
December 13, 2022 at 9:18 pm
Always liked this one, Kat. Performance date for it should be on December 26th according to some sources. Meantime, here are a some good ones:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS0rEr2wvdQ
for the original English scansion, go here:
December 13, 2022 at 10:47 pm
Mark,
I also really like this song. I didn’t know about December 26th so I did some hunting. I read about its Norse history and how it became related to St. Stephen whose feast day is the 26th.
Maddy Prior has the perfect voice for this with her Steeleye Span history and her time with the Carnival band. Both have such a unique sound.
I actually translated some of the original. I guess that four years of Latin don’t just disappear but stay in the cobwebs of the mind.
Thanks