Sorry, the 'Guest' at '06:55 AM' was me.

What the 'Guest' at '07:11 AM' was on about - I'm not sure. I don't understand the question. I certainly didn't remark on the 'remarkability' of any songs because they happen to be anonymous - they just are, and no-one can now do anything about it.

Having said all that the anonymity of some folk songs (not all) is a 'red herring' and always has been. I say 'not all' because we do know the authors of some songs (e.g. 'The Famous Flower of Serving Men' is usually attributed to a 17th Century ballad writer named Laurence Price - and his name appears in Roy Palmer's, 'A Book of British Ballads' (first pub. 1980). Likewise I believe that 'A Rosebud in June' first appeared in an 18th Century play - and a bit of diligent searching could probably come up with the author. The fact that we don't know the original authors of the vast majority of songs is, to quote Bert Lloyd, "an accident of history".