Hi Richie, This looks interesting. I'd be glad to have a look at the scans and see if I can add anything to your reading. I've just sent you a PM with my email address if you want to send them to me.

(As a first thought, my guess is that "sheir" in verses 26-28 might be "speir" = "ask".)

So, this version has the ships stanza as expected, plus another two about his wealth (but moved from the beginning of the story where they are in Child C, and offered "to tocher Barbara Allan" – meaning to provide her with a dowry so she can marry someone else after he is gone?). Interesting that it also has the legacies and the dialogues with family members that turn up in later Scottish and Irish versions. I guess it must be the earliest record of these elements in the story, or is there any earlier one? (Also interesting that Barbara looks ready to marry the young man in verse 22, but that doesn't seem to have caught on in the tradition.)