[750] Cf. McKenzie, Donald A., Myths of Babylonia, p. 18.

[751]

Mary Ambree

Who marched so free,

To the siege of Gaunt,

And death could not daunt

As the ballad doth vaunt.

[752] In Kirtlington Park (Oxon) was a Johnny Gaunt’s pond in which his spirit was supposed to dwell. A large ash tree was also there known as Johnny Gaunt’s tree.

[753] Herbert, A., Cyclops, p. 202.

[754] Life of Columba, p. 40.