Exercises at pag. 98-99

Exercise 1

1. Hunting
2. Forest
3. Mother
4. Meet
5. True-love
6. Eels
7. Poisoned
8. Heart
9. Gold and silver
10. Hell and fire

Exercise 2

1. The mother’s questions are: “Oh where ha’ you been, Lord Randal, my son?”, “And where ha’ you been, my handsome young man?”, “And wha met you there, Lord Randal, my son?”, “And wha met you there, my handsome young man?”, “And what did she give you, Lord Randal, my son?”, “And what did she give you, my handsome young man?”, “And wha gat your leavins, Lord Randal, my son?”, “And wha gat your leavins, my hansome young man?”, “And what becam of them, Lord Randal my son?”, “And what becam of them, my handsome young man?”, “What d’ye leave to your mother/ your sister/ your brother/ your true-love, Lord Randal my son?” and “What d’ye leave to your mother/ your sister/ your brother/ your true-love, my handsome young man?”.

1. The Lord Randal’s answer are: “I ha’ been at the greenwood”, “O I met wi my true-love”, “Eels fried in a pan”, “My hawks and my hounds”, “They stretched their legs out and died”, “Four and twenty milk kyes”, “My gold and my silver”, “My houses and my lands” and “I leave her hell and fire”.

1. The story is told in detail.

1. The expressions in the firts stanza that hint at Lord Randal’s death are: “ha’ you been”, “I’m wearied” and “fain wad lie doon”.

1. The climax is in the sixth stanza; this stanza is important because both the mother and Lord Randal understand the cause of is discomfort, or the fact of being poisoned.

1. Lord Randal’s meeting in the woods: stanza 2,3

Lord Randal’s oral testament: stanzas 7,8,9,10

Exercise 3

1. The words in the text that point out Lord Randal’s position in medieval society are: the word Lord, hunting and the oral testament.
2. A testament is important in this context because it served to divide the possessions of the deceased, who had everything in his hands, especially if he was the firstborn.

Exercise 4

The mother-son dialogue is factual because the mother was very close to her son so that in the text is repeated many times the personal pronoun “my”, but the son is more detached so much so that he called her mother, mother and not mum.

Exercise 5

Lord Randal’s true-love is a mysterious creature because she poisoned Lord Randal.

Exercise 6

The simbol of her false love are the eels because the snakes or the eels are the symbol of the betrayal.