‘On the hill have we brewed beer’

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‘On the hill have we brewed beer’

Poet(s)

Unsigned

Credits

Translator

Ralston, William Ralston Shedden (1828-1889)

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

The Nineteenth Century 24:138, 245, August 1888.

First line

On the hill have we brewed beer

Authorship

Unsigned

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

Original language

Russian

Document status

Generated: The file was automatically generated from metadata in the project metadata database.

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Notes and attribution research

Russian beer-brewing song from W. R. S. Ralston’s collection Russian Folk-Tales. Cited in Laura Alexandrine Smith’s essay Workers’ Songs (238-50). (HR)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 8284

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Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

‘On the hill have we brewed beer’