I hope the learned members of this list can shed some
light on a question which barely justifies being called
medieval. I am familiar with a song (ballad?) beginning
"the minstral boy to the war is gone ..." which I THOUGHT
was the theme of the movie "The Man Who Would be King".
However, I recently saw the movie again, and while the
tune was as I had remembered the words were quite different,
at least in the final scene, where Sean Connery goes to
his death on a rope bridge (can't say I have read of this
form of martyrdom before.) Anyway, at that point in
the film, the words have become "the son of god to war
has gone" ... and ends up with something about those
who "follow in his name". Does anyone know whether there
is a hymn like this, or whether it is an invention for
the sake of the movie?
Margaret Cormack [log in to unmask]
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion fax: 843-953-6388
College of Charleston tel: 843-953-8033
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
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