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childe

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childe archaic or literary word for a youth of noble birth, typically forming part of a name, as Childe Harold. The word is recorded from late Old English, and is a variant of child.
Childe Roland is the hero of a poem by Browning, ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came’, the title deriving from a snatch of song recited by Edgar in Shakespeare's King Lear; in the poem, the narrator is a knight errant crossing a nightmare landscape who finally reaches the Dark Tower and sets the slughorn to his lips, but the outcome and the reason for his journey are unknown.

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Childe

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Childe, in ‘Childe Harold’, ‘Childe Roland’, etc., signifies a youth of gentle birth, and is used as a kind of title.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Childe." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Childe." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Childe.html

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Childe

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Childe •child, Childe, mild, self-styled, undefiled, wild, Wilde •grandchild • stepchild • brainchild •godchild • Rothschild • schoolchild •love child • unreconciled •bald, scald, so-called, uncalled, unwalled •Archibald • piebald • skewbald •Theobald • Cumbernauld

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Childe and Australia: Achaeology, Politics and Ideas. (book reviews) Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/1995
	The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives. Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1996
	In memoriam V. Gordon Childe.(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Antiquity; 12/1/2000