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Thread #115604   Message #2479821
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
30-Oct-08 - 09:04 AM
Thread Name: Child Ballads at Cecil Sharp House-1 Nov 2008
Subject: RE: Child Ballads at Cecil Sharp House-1 Nov 2008
Neither Nicholas nor Pryor makes any reference to a diver with an augur so far as I can see, though both quote from earlier sources to the effect that the galley was immobilised by divers who lashed its steering oars together and was subsequently sunk by ramming. Both also refer to other accounts suggesting that the ship may have been scuttled by its captain. That seems to leave only the cryptic 'MF' as presumed (secondary) source for the cabinboy anecdote. What does MF stand for? Presumably Rodger included a key to abbreviations?