Hi Ian,

Glad to hear it's of interest! The song (legend, not ballad, my mistake!) does seem to be something older, according to this thread (or http://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=30923#762646 if that didn't work). Not sure how old, but the preservation of 'Ottenberg' in the lyrics rather than the newer spelling is interesting. I suppose it could always be an antiquarian flourish, not really sure how we'd tell though...