Commentary
The grave plants that grow together are a motif to express true love, also found in many variants of Barbara Allen and of Tristan and Iseult, and in the legend of Baucis and Philemon.
This ballad has no connection with The Nut-Brown Maid, in which a nut-brown maid is the heroine.
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