The Whummil Bore

The Whummil Bore

"The Whummil Bore" is Child ballad 27. [Francis James Child, "English and Scottish Popular Ballads", [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch027.htm "The Whummil Bore"] ] A whummil is a tool for drilling holes.

ynopsis

The narrator served the king seven years and saw his daughter only once, through a whummil bore. She was being dressed by her maids.

Commentary

Only one variant of this ballad exists. [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 247, Dover Publications, New York 1965] "Hind Horn" appears to contain a stanza from it. [Francis James Child, "The English and Scottish Popular Ballads", v 1, p 247, Dover Publications, New York 1965]

Recording

This is recorded on the Steeleye Span 2006 album Bloody Men.

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