The Whummil Bore

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Template:Short description Template:Wikisource/outer coreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"."The Whummil Bore" (Roud 3722, Child 27) is an English-language folk song. A whummil is a tool for drilling holes.

Synopsis

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

Commentary

Only one variant of this ballad exists.[1] "Hind Horn" appears to contain a stanza from it.[2]

Recording

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

See also

References

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  1. ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 247, Dover Publications, New York 1965
  2. ↑ Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, v 1, p 247, Dover Publications, New York 1965

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