1)     1 The message hidden under the lines
of Lord Randall is that women without a men are nothing. This message is
underline by Lord Randall's mother, who asked her son what will he leave to his
mother and his sister. The ballade wants to teach that women are dangerous and
if you let your guard down they will poison you.

2)     2 The ballad is an oral form of
poetry, composed by narration, dialogue or both of them. The language is
simple, easy to understand for the peasants, who are illiterate. It contains
repetition, alliteration, incremental repetition and others figures of speech
to help memorization.

3)     3 From a ballad we can understand about
which period and which nation is it talking about. Then we can understand the
importance of men in society and how the women were considered: dangerous,
unless they were nuns. We can also understand the great difference between
different social classes, that also spoke different languages. Religion was the
most important thing in someone's live, who did everything he could to obtain the
right to go in paradise. Magic was feared and, if possible, avoided.

4)      4Latin, Old English and Norman French
were spoken in the middle-ages. Latin was the language of priests and lawyers;
Norman French was the language of the king and the aristocracy; Old English was
the language of the peasants.

5)     5 A novel is a story that deals with
historical events, mainly imagined, but always true-like. Romances are stories
that deals with the deeds of a knight and mainly deals with magical spells,
magical items or magical creatures.

6)      6Romances are stories came from
France after the Norman conquest in 1066.

7)     7 The quest undertaken by a knight is
to observe the code of chivalry: mainly to protect the church, to protect the
weak, to be loyal to the king and to perform the feudal duties. The king
usually asked to find the Holy Graal.

8)      8Courtly love is a kind of spiritual
love between a knight and a lady. It was quite never consummated and the knight
"swear fidelity" to his lady