'Lang Johnny More' should be compared with 'Johnie Scot' (No, 99). It is perhaps an imitation, and in fact almost a parody of that ballad. There John is the little Scot; here he is the muckle Scot, stanza 6 (Gaelic mor = big), and his helpmates, as well as he, are of grigantic size. Except this and one other particular, the stories are materially the same.
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