{"id":4133,"date":"2010-10-24T16:40:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/"},"modified":"2010-10-24T16:40:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T22:40:02","slug":"the-death-of-queen-jane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/24\/the-death-of-queen-jane\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Queen Jane"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to wait until we got a little closer to the release dates<\/a> to post about Loreena McKennitt’s new album but then I realized that today is the day to post about it!<\/p>\n

I’ve been a huge fan of Loreena McKennitt for years (her version of Greensleeves<\/i> still makes me tingle) so I was very excited that she has a new album titled The Wind the Shakes the Barley<\/i> out next month and as an added bonus, one of the songs on the new CD has a Tudor history connection. Several of Loreena’s previous albums have included poems or ballads set to music, such as The Lady of Shallot<\/i> by Tennyson and the new album has The Ballad of Queen Jane<\/i>, a popular ballad that dates from the 17th century. Folklorists have collected various versions of the ballad (I knew that folklore class I took a few years back would come in handy here someday!) and here is the version I’ve had in the poetry section of the site for ages: The Death of Queen Jane<\/a>. Although the poem itself is not very historically accurate, I thought that the anniversary of Jane Seymour’s death would be an appropriate day to post about this.<\/p>\n

You can listen to clips from the new CD on the Quinlan Road website<\/a> and pre-order links to my Amazon affiliate store are below:<\/p>\n