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The Anglo-Norman or Middle English Period f

 The Middle English Period started when the Norman French arrived in England in
1100 BC. It immensely impacted the British life.
 The French became the ruling class, so the language of the nobility, the government, the
law, and civilized life in England for the next two hundred years was French.
 French is the source of words, yet the languages of the peasants remained English.
 The Normans have bestowed over 10,000 words to English, including a large
number of intricate nouns ending in prefixes and suffixes.

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Anglo-Norman Literature
 Anglo-Norman literature is the second phase of the English Literature.
 Most of its literature is oral tradition, and their authors is unknown.

Ballad
 A ballad is a poem that tells a story and the term popular ballads refers to those
originated from the common people rather than from the king’s court or the halls of
the nobles.
 To the ordinary people of the Middle Ages, these ballads were more entertainment
than literature, and were not written down. They were instead sung over and over by
minstrels and troubadours in local celebrations and events, which helped preserve the
gist of each ballad.
 Each ballad has several versions, but they share the following common characteristics:
1. The subject is dramatic, often focusing on love, death, or the
supernatural.
2. The language is very simple
3. The story is developed through dialogue
4. It contains lines or a stanza thar is repeated throughout the ballad
5. Mystery is contrived by leaving out details

Three English Ballads

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1. Lord Randal
- Tells the tale of a man whose heart was broken by his lover, who poisoned him
by feeding him poisonous snakes
- The ballad tells the story of Lord Randal who went hunting in the woods with a
his bloodhounds. His true love who gave him eels boiled in broth. Lord Randal ate the
 eels and gave the leftovers to his bloodhounds, but since the eel was poisoned, they all
died.
"O where ha'e ye been, Lord Randall my son?

O where ha'e ye been, my handsome young man?"

"I have been to the wild wood; Mother, make my bed soon,

For I’m weary with hunting, and fain would’ lie down."

"Where got ye your dinner, Lord Randall, my son?

Where got ye your dinner, my handsome young man?"

"I dined with my true-love; Mother, make my bed

soon,

For I'm weary with hunting, and fain would lie down."

"What got ye to your dinner, Lord Randall my son?

What got ye to your dinner, my handsome young man?"

"I got eels boiled in broth; Mother, make my bed soon,

For I'm weary with hunting, and fain would lie down."

"What became of your bloodhounds, Lord Randall my son?

What became of your bloodhounds, my handsome young man?"

"O they swelled and they died; Mother, make my bed soon,

For I'm weary with hunting, and fain would lie down."

"O I fear ye are poisoned, Lord Randall my son!

O I fear ye are poisoned, my handsome young man!"

"O yes, I am poisoned; Mother, make my bed soon,

For I'm sick at the heart, and I fain wounld lie down."

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2. Bonny Barbara Allan

-This is a story of an unhappy love affair. It tells of how the eponymous character
denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death
-It started with a servant asking for Barbara to attend on his sick master. She
visits the bedside of the heartbroken young man, who then pleads for her love but she refuses
because she claims he had slighted her while drinking with friends. He dies soon after and
Barbara hears his funeral bells tolling; stricken with grief, she dies as well.
It was in and about the Martinmas time,

When the green leaves were a-falling,

That Sir John Greame, in the West Country,

Fell in love with Barbara Allan.

He sent his man down through the town,

To the place where she was dwelling:

“O haste and come to my master dear,

Gin ye be Barbara Allan.”

O quicly, quicly rose she up,

To the place where he was lying,

And when she drew the curtain by,

“Young man, I think you’re dying.”

“O it’s I’m sick, and very, very sick,

And it is all for Barbara Allan:”

“O the better for me ye’s never be,

Tho your heart’s blood were a-spilling.

“O do you remember, young man,” said she,

“When ye was in the tavern a-drinking,

That ye made the healths go round and round,

And slighted Barbara Allan?”

He turned his face unto the wall,

And death was with him dealing:

“Adieu, adieu, my dear friends all,

And be kind to Barbara Allan.”

And slowly, slowly raise she up,

And slowly, slowly left him,

And sighing said, she could not stay,

 Since death of life had be reft him.

She had not gane a mile but twa,

When she heard the dead-bell ringing, 30

And every jow that the dead-bell gied,

It cry’d, Woe to Barbara Allan!

“O mother, mother, make my bed!

O make it saft and narrow!

Since my love died for me to-day, 35

I’ll die for him to-morrow.

Mendiola

3. Get Up and Bar the Door

-Although ballads were often serious or even tragic, this ballad testifies that the
comic was not entirely neglected by balladeers.

The Pardoner’s Tale

By Geoffrey Chaucer

Characters:

 Three wicked young men

 The old man
 Death
 The servant

Summary

There were three roisterers who are listening to the tavern’s gossip about Death slaying men, women,
and children, so after the three roisterers heard about the news they made a vow that the three of them
will act as one like a brother to each other and that they will not rest until they find Death and kill him.
So after they made a vow they began to fulfill it, then when they were walking barely half a mile away to
find the Death they encounter an old man who greeted them, then the proudest of the roisterers ask
the old man in a rude way “Slave, why are you so wrapped up except for your face? Why are you still
alive?”. The old man answered sadly “I am still alive because I find no man can replace me and there for
am I alive as long as it God’s will, and Death,alas will not take my life; and so my staff I knock upon the
Mother earth to open and let me in. And so God be with you, I’ll go my way”, when the old man said
that the youngest roisterer stop the old man from going and he said rudely “No. Old slave you don’t go
away so fast” “You are spy for this traitor, Death, so tell us where he lives, this slayer of youth”. The old
man answered “If you want to find Death, turn up this narrow path, for in that grove I left him under the
three, you should find him there unless you mend your ways”.

After the old man answered them they start to walk on the narrow path that the old man said, then they
started to ran on the tee because they found a treasure of gold coins under the trunk of the tree,
because of it they forgot about Death. The three sat there staring greedily at the pile of gold coins. The
worst of three first speak he said “we can live for the rest of our life seating and drinking but we cannot
bring this to our homes because they will thought that we steal them, so I suggest one of us we deaw
lots and he who got the shortest lot should go to twon and bring us bread and wine while the two will
remain and watch the pile of gold coins and at night we shall take this fortune where we think the best”,
everyone agreed, So they draw lot and the youngest draw the shortest lot.

While the youngest go to town to bring back bread and wine for the three of them, the one roisterer
that also remained to watch the pile of gold coins said to the other “you know that you are like my
brother, I have a plang that will make us more profit” then when the other roisterer had interest the
other roisterer said “I have a plan when the youngest came back we will immediately kill him then we
will divide the gold into two” the other agreed, what they didn’t know is that the youngest also plans on
how he will make more profit for himself then an idea came to his mind, his idea is he will put a poison
on the wine so when the two drank it the will die, since that’s his plan he firstly went to the apothecary
and bought a poison telling the man that his house has full of rats, after he bought the poison he the
brought the bread and wine and put a poison on the wine. When the youngest came on the tree the
other two immediately killed him but after they killed him they drank the wine that the youngest
bought, in the end the other two also died.

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