Is the ballad "Sir Patrick Spens" based on a historical event?

When did the ballad get developed?

Ballads became less popular as people learnt to read and write, but enjoyed a comeback in the Romantic Period and in the 20th century.

The subject matter of a ballad is typically betrayal, death, sports, revenge and/or drinking.

What does the rhyme pattern of a ballad look like?

What are the defining characteristics of the ballad genre?

When does the Sir Patrick Spens Ballad take place?

What was/were (a) famous book(s) from this timeperiod?

When were the early Middle Ages?

Is "Sir Patrick Spens" a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea?

It was first published in eleven stanzas in 1765 in Bishop Thomas Percy's:

True or False: Francis James Child collected some eighteen versions of Sir Patrick Spens. There is no one definitive version... because the song continues in oral tradition.

The winter storms have the best of the great sailor, sending him and the Scottish lords to the _______.

"The Ballad of Chevy Chase" is an English ballad, catalogued as _______.

True or False: The ballads tell the story of a large hunting party upon a parcel of hunting land (or chase) in the Cheviot Hills... hence the term, Chevy Chase.

The hunt is led by Percy, the English Earl of _______.

In response he attacked, causing a bloody battle after which only ____ people survived.

Both ballads were collected in Thomas Percy's Reliques and the first of the ballads in _______ Child’s Child Ballads.

Who said this? "I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet..."

In Sir Walter Scott's Rob Roy (1817), the main character, Frank, upon seeing the trophies on the walls of Osbaldistone hall, imagines them being from the Chevy Chase.