“Night Visiting Song”
Description
Young man comes visiting his love's window, bidding her admit him. She does, and a good time is had by all until daybreak, when they part at the crowing of the cock
Notes
Lloyd notes that night-visiting and bundling were common customs in country villages until the rise of Puritanism, and that bundling was still remembered in the Orkneys. The mention of the cock's crowing provides a link to "The Grey Cock." - PJS
Cross references
- cf. "The Grey Cock" (motif)
Recordings
- Norman Kennedy, "Night Visiting Song" (on BirdBush2)
- Louis Killen, "The Cock" (on BirdBush2)
References
- DT, NITEVIST
- BI, DTnitevi