Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Brief Description by George Lyman Kittredge

235. The Earl of Aboyne

Charles, first Earl of Aboyne, married for his first wife Margaret Irvine of Drum, who died in 1662. The story of the ballad, so far as is known, is an absolute fiction.

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