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