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significance in ballad development
...found in most primitive cultures. The ballad habit thus is unquestionably very ancient. But the ballad genre itself could not have existed in anything like its present form before about 1100. “ Judas,” the oldest example found in Francis James Child’s exhaustive collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–98), dates from 1300, but until the 17th century...
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