Outlandish Knight, a version of Child #4, is in the database. Martin Carthy sings it on his Shearwater LP. He starts with completely different lyrics for the first four verses. Later on the lyrics are much closer.
Carthy starts "Lady Margaret sat..." which could possibly come from Child #74, Fair Margaret and Sweet William. I have only an abridged one volume Child (one of the bigger mistakes of my life, when I had the choice 20 years ago) and so I can't check myself what I'd like to know:

Is there a version of Child #2 in which there are starting verses about Lady Margaret?
Or did Martin Carthy "marry" two ballads to make a new one (Shearwater is the only Carthy LP I have without notes)?

Wolfgang

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