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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)

Note 152 — 93 LAMKIN

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"Balcanquel is an ancient Scottish surname, and is sometimes corrupted, for the more agreeable sound, into Beluncan. All reciters agree that Lammikin, or Lambkin, is not the name of the hero, but merely an epithet." Finlay, Scottish Ballads, II. 56.

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