b_a_n_s_h_e_e: (melancholy)
b_a_n_s_h_e_e ([personal profile] b_a_n_s_h_e_e) wrote2008-05-03 11:40 am
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Two Sisters

Понемногу возвращаюсь в обычную рутину, теперь снова буду вывешивать картины и разные интересности :)

Мне кажется, что эта картина иллюстрирует балладу о двух сестрах (The Twa Sisters). Баллада существует в разных вариантах, но суть сводится к тому, что одна сестра сталкивает другую в воду, чтобы заполучить ее возлюбленного. Несчастная сестра погибает и превращается в лебедя (хотя и не во всех вариантах.) Лебедя (или тело утопленницы) находит дочка мельника. Проходивший мимо бард слышит ее плач и делает арфу из тела погибшей - струны из ее волос и так далее. Впоследствии бард появляется при дворе отца погибшей и голос арфы выдает злодейку-сестру. Различные варианты это быллады можно прочесть здесь. Ну а поклонники Лорены МакКеннит, конечно, уже узнали эту песню. Слова и видео можно посмотреть под катом.


John Fraed, The Cruel Sister

Loreena McKennitt - The bonny swans

A farmer there lived in the north country
a hey ho bonny o
And he had daughters one, two, three
The swans swim so bonny o
These daughters they walked by the river's brim
a hey ho bonny o
The eldest pushed the youngest in
The swans swim so bonny o

Oh sister, oh sister, pray lend me your hand
with a hey ho a bonny o
And I will give you house and land
the swans swim so bonny o
I'll give you neither hand nor glove
with a hey ho a bonny o
Unless you give me your own true love
the swans swim so bonny o

Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam
with a hey ho and a bonny o
Until she came to a miller's dam
the swans swim so bonny o
The miller's daughter, dressed in red
with a hey ho and a bonny o
She went for some water to make some bread
the swans swim so bonny o

Oh father, oh daddy, here swims a swan
with a hey ho and a bonny o
It's very like a gentle woman
the swans swim so bonny o

They placed her on the bank to dry
with a hey ho and a bonny o
There came a harper passing by
the swans swim so bonny o

He made harp pins of her fingers fair
with a hey ho and a bonny o
He made harp strings of her golden hair
the swans swim so bonny o
He made a harp of her breast bone
with a hey ho and a bonny o
And straight it began to play alone
the swans swim so bonny o

He brought it to her father's hall
with a hey ho and a bonny o
And there was the court, assembled all
the swans swim so bonny o
He laid the harp upon a stone
with a hey ho and a bonny o
And straight it began to play lone
the swans swim so bonny o

And there does sit my father the King
with a hey ho and a bonny o
And yonder sits my mother the Queen
the swans swim so bonny o
And there does sit my brother Hugh
with a hey ho and a bonny o
And by him William, sweet and true
the swans swim so bonny o
And there does sit my false sister, Anne
with a hey ho and a bonny o
Who drowned me for the sake of a man
the swans swim so bonny o



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