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John Barleycorn : ウィキペディア英語版 | John Barleycorn
''John Barleycorn'' is a British folksong〔See pages 75-76 of ''The Function of Song in Contemporary British Drama'' by Elizabeth Hale Winkler (On line book )〕 (Roud 164). The character of John Barleycorn in the song is a personification of the important cereal crop barley and of the alcoholic beverages made from it, beer and whisky. In the song, John Barleycorn is represented as suffering attacks, death and indignities that correspond to the various stages of barley cultivation, such as reaping and malting. ==Origins== Kathleen Herbert draws a link between the mythical figure Beowa (a figure stemming from Anglo-Saxon paganism that appears in early Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies whose name means "barley") and the figure of John Barleycorn. Herbert says that Beowa and Barleycorn are one and the same, noting that the folksong details the suffering, death, and resurrection of Barleycorn, yet also celebrates the "reviving effects of drinking his blood."〔Herbert, Kathleen (2007). ''Looking for the Lost Gods of England'', p. 16. Anglo-Saxon Books. ISBN 1-898281-04-1 〕 In their notes to the ''Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'' (London, 1959), editors A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams ponder whether the ballad is "an unusually coherent folklore survival" or "the creation of an antiquarian revivalist, which has passed into popular currency and become 'folklorised'". It is in any case, they note, "an old song", with printed versions dating as far back as the sixteenth century.
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