Ballads
Romances
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Many tales later collected as Fairy Tales or ballads are first found in romances, although we do not know how close they are to the Oral Tradition of their own times.
Source: Chivalric Romance -
Fairytale Motifs: Aside from the numerous references to "Tam Lin" and other ballads, Kate thinks of Christopher and Alicia as the kind of beautiful, unworldly people found in Arthurian romances: Christopher as the Knight In Shining Armour putting Honour Before Reason, Alicia as a naive heroine.
Source: Literature / The Perilous Gard -
Many are recognizably popular forms of medieval Chivalric Romances.Many of them are heavy on dialect, especially the Border Ballads, those collected on the English-Scottish border.
Source: Literature / Child Ballads
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