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3	[[quoteright:337:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/YoungBeichan_7051.JPG]]
4	[[caption-width-right:337: In prison]]
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6	"Young Beichan" is Literature/{{Child Ballad\|s}} #53, collected in several variants, in which the hero's name, the heroine's, and the location where they meet vary a lot.
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8	The plot, however, does not. The hero is thrown into a dungeon in a far country. His captor's daughter frees him, and he pledges to marry her. On returning home, however, he is forced to marry. She arrives in time to stop the wedding.
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10	This is the plot of many {{Fairy Tale}}s such as ''Literature/SnowWhiteFireRed,'' and parts of it feature in many more, such as ''Literature/TheLoveOfThreeOranges'' and ''Literature/TheWhiteDove.''
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12	Full text, with all of Francis Child's variants, [[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch053.htm here.]]
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15	!! Tropes included (in at least one variant):
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17	* BlueBlood: Some variants note his high birth before recounting his imprisonment.
18	* ColdBloodedTorture: The hero suffers this in prison.
19	* CoolBoat: The heroine uses a magical boat to reach the hero in time to stop his wedding.
20	* CoolHorse: The heroine gives one to the hero when he escapes.
21	* DistressedDude: The hero is imprisoned and must be saved by the heroine.
22	* FairestOfThemAll: When the heroine arrives, the porter declares her the most beautiful woman he ever saw. The bride's mother is miffed: If he did not except the bride, he might have excepted ''her.''
23	* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Despite DoingInTheWizard, still recognizable.
24	* OldRetainer: The family household sprite Belly Blin warns Isobel that her lover is about to marry another woman.
25	%% * ThePromise: To marry.
26	* RuleOfSeven: The hero must return before seven years are up to marry the heroine.
27	* SwarmOfRats: The hero's hair is gnawed on by rats in prison:
28	-->''O whan she saw him, Young Bekie,\
29	Her heart was wondrous sair!\
30	For the mice but an the bold rottons\
31	Had eaten his yallow hair.''
32	* YouHaveWaitedLongEnough: Directed at the man, for once.
33	-->''Tak hame, tak hame your daughter dear,
34	-->A blessing gae her wi,
35	-->For I maun marry my Burd Isbel,
36	-->That's come oer the sea to me.''
37	** In some variants, on arrival, the heroine finds that the wedding festivities have gone on for thirty days without the hero having consummated the union.
38	-->''There is a wedding in yonder hall,\
39	Has lasted these thirty days and three;\
40	Young Beichan will not bed with his bride,\
41	For love of one that's yond the sea.''
42	** In some non-English variants, the hero has been magically forced to forget her.

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