User talk:Ashley Y/2003

Hello

Hello Ashley,I originally put this on your user page by mistake. Welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have a lot of fun here. There are lots of resources around to help guide you. be sure to check out:

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John Barleycorn

Good job on finding older sources for John Barleycorn. I was slightly sceptical of the Burns attribution, but from what I read it did seem like the poem had escaped into the folk tradition. The earlier versions only slightly resemble the earlier ones.

I may want to reword and restore some of the text about the non-antiquity of the concept. And by all means, add some quotes from the earlier versions; we may want to take only excerpts from the Burns version if we do, and add some notes about the differences. -- Smerdis of Tlön 04:23, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Do put the over-interpretation bit back if you like, but bear in mind the antiquity question is open: unless you have more data, all we know is that it goes back at least as far as the 16th century. —Ashley Y 07:23, Nov 30, 2003 (UTC)