No Steve - one of the questions is what he did that no other anthologist/collector did in the 19th century, when authenticity was not an issue and we really have no great idea what traditional singers were and were not giving
I've said this often enough, but any slight knowledge we have dtes back only a far as the end of the 19th century, and that is little enough in the general scope of things "a hill of beans", in fact
I've become a little tired of definitive statements on unknowables.
If Buchan is no longer a "controversy" why aren't we all aware of that fact, or do we have to become members of something?
As I said before (and will say again) the same applies to definitive statements on print/oral origins.
Jim Carroll