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2 unusual facts about Fair Annie


Fair Annie

Marie de France retold this story in her lai, Le Fresne, where the heroine is not kidnapped but abandoned with birth tokens; she was a twin, which was regarded as proof of adultery, and a servant abandoned her to save her life.

Guitarist and singer Martin Simpson recorded a version of Fair Annie on his 2001 album The Bramble Briar in his distinctive finger-picking style.



see also

Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl

Geschichte vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl (or The Story of Just Casper and Fair Annie in English) is a novella by Clemens Brentano, first published in 1817 in the book Gaben der Milde, edited by Friedrich Wilhelm Gubitz.