Note 520 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY
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“Dans der Maegdekens,” heard at Bailleul by Coussemaker. See his Chants Populaires des Flamands de France, Gand, 1856, pp. 100 f. Soon after 1840 it was forbidden, and the song is no more, save in the record. It goes back, says C., to the oldest times.