Talk:The Black Knight (Elgar)

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In the synopsis section it states "It has been observed that there seems to be no moral cause or explanation for the gratuitous evil of the stranger."

Unless one realizes that the Black Knight is a symbol of the Black Death which swept Europe (peaked 1346–53) and was probably the worst epidemic ever. The original author Ludwig Uhland, being a noted historian, would have known about the "Plague".

I'm not suggesting that anything be changed unless this can be checked but I do think the sentence is rather misleading, even if such an epidemic also has no "moral cause".

Just like the beginnings of a possible Ebola epidemic at the present time.

Ed (talk) 16:11, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for pointing this out. Looks like opinion, best removed if no citation for the supposition. P0mbal (talk) 20:50, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

May be Diana McVeagh's opinion, and understandable. A respected Elgarian author, But who says Uhland's poem is about the Black Death? I have left the comments as is. P0mbal (talk) 21:41, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]