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Certain English and Scottish ballads such as False Knight on the Road (Child #3) have their analogue in Scandinavian folk music. Did bilingual sailors take these songs across the North Sea, or did the Anglo-Saxons bring these song traditions to England from Scandinavia?

by /u/Vladith in /r/AskHistorians

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