Gwenzilla ([identity profile] telynor.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] kniteracy 2007-12-08 01:29 pm (UTC)

OMG! I smite thee, Robert Graves

I'll bet he is the reason for this confusion!

Check out this page from The Triple Muse. (http://books.google.com/books?id=pRfnDBU9tqQC&pg=PA146&lpg=PA146&dq=%22if+all+those+young+men%22&source=web&ots=aYRZBRBfv8&sig=IOg5ttvC7AHncRQVU1sInADLn1U#PPA146,M1)

Ah, those romantical mystics. He says:

The folk song If all those young men evidently belongs to these May-eve witch frolics.

(underlining mine on "evidently", which in my book is a sure synonym for "I made it all up and it's true!") ;-)

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