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‘On the hill have we brewed beer’

POEM DETAILS

Poem details

‘On the hill have we brewed beer’

METADATA

Metadata

‘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

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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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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘On the hill have we brewed beer’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/nineteenthcentury/1888/pom_8284_on_the_hill_have_we_brewed.html.

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