Добавление в копилку цитатника: «There is a false assumption usually made about the ballads of this period: that since the subjects were always kings and queens and princes and princesses, the authors were royalty too. But peasants wrote about those kings and queens. The royalty was not alone in thinking that kings and queens were somehow better; part of being a peasant was thinking that kings and queens were better. I suspect that a fair portion of the population still thinks that way». John Irving, «The Water-Method Man» (1972).   «В отношении баллад того периода обычно делается ошибочное предположение, что поскольку все персонажи являются королями и королевами, принцами и принцессами,…