Childe Rowland: Difference between revisions

 

"Childe Rowland" is notably referenced in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[King Lear]]'' (Act III, scene 4), when Edgar, posing as mad Tom and rambling incoherently, has the lines:

I smell the blood of a British man.' '' }}

It is on the grounds of the ''King Lear'' lines that Joseph Jacobs called the King of Elfland's palace "the Dark Tower" in his version, as this name was not in the immediate source he used.