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loveppears
Unregistered User
(4/6/06 3:29 am)
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"Fair Rosalinda"?
Hi, everyone! I was wondering if I could get some help trying to find a fairy tale story or if anyone's ever heard of it. I've done a massive google search but haven't been able to turn up anything, augh~
The title I only know it as is "Fair Rosalinda" although I have a feeling it might be under a different name. It's about a King who captures a girl named Rosalinda in a tower to be his lover. The Queen finds out and murders the girl, disposing of her body in water. A minstrel comes along and makes a lyre or harp out of her bones and hair then goes to play it before the King but the only thing the harp/lyre will sing is "The Queen haft murdered me".
I read a clip of it in a book recently and I vaguely remember it from my childhood. A link to a write-up of the story or where to buy a book that it's included in or ANY info in general would be really helpful to me. Sorry, I don't even know who wrote it.
Thanks in advance, sorry for the trouble!
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Erica Carlson
Registered User
(4/6/06 12:45 pm)
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Re: "Fair Rosalinda"?
King Henry II of England had a mistress named Rosamund Clifford,
often referred to as "Fair Rosamund," and legend has it
that Queen Eleanor poisoned her. Wikipedia has some decent general
info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosamund_Clifford
And here's a link with more info and online text of "The Ballad
of Fair Rosamund": www.english.vt.edu/~drad/Courses/ENGL3034/Percy/Rosamond.html
There's also a (non-scholarly) reference to the tale in Mercedes Lackey's book, The Fairy Godmother.
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dlee10
Registered User
(4/6/06 1:49 pm)
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Re: "Fair Rosalinda"?
There is a Brothers Grimm tale called the "Singing Bone" where a man is murdered by two brothers and buried under a bridge. His bone is used by a Shepherd to make a flute. All the flute will play is a rhyme attesting to the murder.
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aka Greensleeves
Registered User
(4/6/06 2:03 pm)
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Re: "Fair Rosalinda"?
The bone instrument that attests to its murder is also an element of "The Twa (two) Sisters" or "The Cruel Sister:"
Twa
Sisters ballad
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loveppears
Unregistered User
(4/7/06 2:18 am)
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RE: "Fair Rosalinda"?
Wow~ thanks SO much everyone!
I had read it recently in 'The Fairy Godmother' by Mercedes Lackey, yes, but I had no idea it was based on history, I had taken it for granted that it was a fairy tale. I remembered a fairy tale from long ago about an instrument made from bones that would sing the truth about its murderer which I now know was 'The Singing Bone' story by Grimm. It was the only part of the story I remembered so I assumed it was 'Fair Rosalinda'.
Thank-you so much for the replied (& the refrence links!), this is ~really~ helpful and I greatly appreciate it<3<3
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Writerpatrick
Registered User
(4/7/06 8:26 am)
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Re: RE: "Fair Rosalinda"?
It seems to me that the fairy tale may have been adapted for a real situation, as with Bluebeard's Castle and The Robber's Bride.
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