Folksångerna om Robin Hood: Akademisk afhandling

by Carl Gustaf Estlander

E-text prepared by Jari Koivisto

FOLKSÅNGERNA OM ROBIN HOOD.

Akademisk afhandling

hvilken med tillstånd af den vidtberömda historisk-filologiska Fakulteten vid Kejserliga Alexanders-Universitetet i Finland, till offentlig granskning framställes

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CARL GUSTAF ESTLANDER

H.-F. Licentiat, uti historisk-filologiska lärosalen, den 1 October 1859 p.v.t.f.m.

Helsingfors, J. C. Frenckell & Son, 1859.

And mony sings o' grass, o' grass,
And mony sings o' corn;
And mony ane sings o' Robin Hood,
Kens little whare he was born.

It was na in the ha', the ha',
Nor in the painted bower;
But it was in the gude green wood
Amang the lilly flower.