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"The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward" is Child Ballad #271.The young lord of Lorn is sent abroad to study languages. The servant who went with him — and had sworn to keep him safe — tries to murder him and lets him off only on the promise to never reveal the truth to any man or woman.The lord gets a job as a shepherd. The steward, presenting himself as the lord, wins the daughter of the Duke of France. She sees the lord one day and offers him a job; the steward objects because of his lowliness, and the duke gives him a job in the stable.One day a horse kicks him and the lord rebukes it, telling it if only it knew whom it was kicking. The daughter overhears, asks him to explain, and, when he refuses, sits down and tells him to tell the horse. He does. She puts off the wedding and sends a letter to his father, who arrives with a great force. The steward is captured and executed as he had sworn he would be if he failed to guard the young lord. The young lord and the daughter marry.Compare the Gender Flip Fairy Tale "The Goose Girl". It appears to be derived from the Chivalric Romance Roswall And Lillian. Full text of the two Child variants here; yet another variant here. |
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2018-07-28T19:34:34Z |
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2020-06-24T08:17:36Z |
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SurrogateSoliloquy |
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Surrogate Soliloquy: Talk to the horse |
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Rescue Romance |
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Rescue Romance: The young lord is stuck in the role of a servant, oathbound not to tell anyone his true identity, until the local lord's daughter figures out how to get the story out of him and summons his family to help him. Thereafter, they promptly marry. |
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The Oath-Breaker |
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The steward promises to protect the young lord on his journeys, and promptly becomes The Oath-Breaker. |
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Exact Eavesdropping |
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Exact Eavesdropping: the pretense to get around the promise is that the heroine just happens to be listening. |
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Evil Laugh |
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Evil Laugh: After the steward had stolen the young lord's identity, he does this. |
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Bride and Switch |
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Bride and Switch: Bridegroom and switch, with the twist that she didn't know the man first. |
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Family-Unfriendly Death |
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Family-Unfriendly Death: The false steward is executed gruesomely for his treachery. |
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The Promise |
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The Promise: The steward promises to protect the young lord on his journeys, and promptly becomes The Oath-Breaker. The young lord promises to never tell anyone about the steward's having attacked and robbed him. (He gets around this through Exact Words.) The duke's daughter, who was wooed by the steward pretending to be the young lord, promises upon learning the truth that she will marry no one but the true lord. |
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I Warned You |
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I Warned You: The young lord's mother was afraid bad things would happen if they sent him abroad, as she states when they receive the letter telling what happened to their son: |
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They Do |
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They Do: The young lord and the duke's daughter. |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job |
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Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: The young lord, being oathbound not to reveal who he is, is reduced to working as a shepherd, and later as a stable boy. |
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The Cavalry |
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The Cavalry: The Lord of Lorn arrives in force to establish his son's identity. |
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Contrived Coincidence |
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Contrived Coincidence: The duke's daughter happens on the true lord while the false steward is wooing her. |
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Suddenly Suitable Suitor |
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Suddenly Suitable Suitor: The young lord knows he's a suitable suitor all along, but the duke's daughter doesn't, because he made The Promise to never tell. |
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Meaningful Rename |
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Meaningful Rename: The young lord calls himself Poore Disaware after he starts to tend sheep. |
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Exact Words |
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The young lord promises to never tell anyone about the steward's having attacked and robbed him. (He gets around this through Exact Words.) |
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Tender Tears |
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Tender Tears: In one variant, when the young lord has evaded The Promise through Exact Words, the duke's daughter weeps over the tale she "overheard." |
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Malicious Slander |
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Malicious Slander: When the young lord improbably shows up again in the service of the duke, the steward posing as him tries slander. It doesn't work. |
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Distressed Dude |
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Distressed Dude: The young lord stays alive by promising to never to tell that his servant robbed him. The servant turns him into a servant, until the daughter of a local lord figures out how to get the story out of him. (Gender Flip version of the Damsel in Distress in The Goose Girl). |
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