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Gil Brenton is Child ballad 5, Roud 22, existing in several variants.〔Francis James Child, ''English and Scottish Ballads'', ("Gil Brenton" )〕 ==Synopsis== A man (often described as a king or lord) has brought home a foreign woman to be his wife. In several variants, the bride is warned that if she is not a maiden (i.e., virgin), she had best send someone else to take her place in the marriage bed, in order to prevent her husband from discovering this fact. She sends her maid in her place. The morning after the wedding, the groom asks the blankets and sheets of the bed, or in some versions the household spirit Billie Blin, if he married a maiden, and they answer that the woman he married was not, and furthermore, she is pregnant. In other variants, the bride informs the bridegroom of her pregnancy without any tests. The groom laments this state of affairs to his mother, who goes to tax his bride with it. The mother-in-law asks who the father of the baby is, and the bride tells how she had gone to the greenwood to gather flowers and been detained there until evening by a man. When he allowed her to return home, this man gave her several tokens (e.g., a lock of hair, some black beads, a golden ring, and a pen-knife). The mother demands the tokens, takes them to her son, and asks him what he had done with the tokens that she (the mother) had given to ''him''. He tells her that he gave them to a lady, and he would give anything to have that lady as his wife. She assures him that his wish has been granted. When the baby is born, there is writing on his body declaring that he is the son of the hero. The hero may show his pleasure by the number of kisses given to wife and son, or by having the lady dressed in silk and the baby bathed in milk. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gil Brenton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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