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Thread #52123   Message #802284
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
13-Oct-02 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Long Lankin/Lord Lankin
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Long Lankin/Lord lankin
At first glance, I'd say that Terry Yarnell's text is a collation, with Scottish word-forms Anglicised, from several sources, chiefly Child 93A, which came from Mrs. Anna Brown of Falkland in the later years of the 18th century. "Orange", which occurs as mentioned earlier in 93G, has been substituted throughout for (variously) nourice and false nurse, and some verses have been partly re-written. Other verses have been introduced from (probably) both English and Scottish versions, but it isn't immediately obvious from exactly which.

Nick Caffrey's piece on Lamkin appeared in issue 48 of Living Tradition. There are some sound-samples relating to it at The Tradition Bearers: Lamkin.

Some strangeness to do with the use of style sheets prevents the page from loading in some iterations of Netscape. Note also that the sound-samples are not as labelled.