A. L. Lloyd did a version on Folkways many years ago, which is (more's the pity) not in the Smithsonian-Folkways collection..... ..It had no named characters at all, but was in the first-person voice of the female character. It started, "An outlandish knight from the northland y-came, And he came a-wooin' of me. And he said he would take me to that northern land, And there he would marry me." It ends with the parrot sequence. I had this song along with about 7 hours of unaccompanied Child ballads, sung by Ewan McColl and A.L. Lloyd, on reel-to-reel tape. The reels were mislaid for many years, and two of them just showed up. I'd like to find a technician who would try to deal with this old, old tape stock and copy it off to cassettes, if it's not too badly deteriorated. Any suggestions?

Dave Oesterreich