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Thread #3768 Message #19538
Posted By: Bruce O.
20-Jan-98 - 03:58 PM
Thread Name: Little Beggarman Info
Subject: RE: Little Beggarman Info
This seems to me to be a racifimento of Child #279 and its Appendix [Gaberlunzie man (Ghiberlan in Scots Gallick)] and Child #280 (BEGARLAD is mislabeled as Child #200 in DT.) For the early ballad that Child expurgated at the end of his #279 see ZN2500 in the internet Broadside Ballad Index. (Copy on request) A rather startling newly printed song is "The Juggler" in 'The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection', VII, #1401. My guess is that 'Juggler' is a corruption of 'Ghiberlan' = beggarman. This is unexpurgated and probably, in my estimation, the basis of ZN2500, and thence of the others.