This ballad appears in Thomas D'Urfey Wit and Mirth: Pills to Purge the Melancholy, Volume III (1719-1720). Child notes that the oldest and fullest copy of the ballad is in the Percy Mauscript. He also notes that fragments are similar to a song from the time of Henry VIII, Blow Thy Horn, Hunter! which is in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time.

The words and tune of this version of Sir Lionel are from English Folk-Songs of the Southern Applachians. Cecil Sharp collected this at Woodbridge, Virginia in 1916.

Variants and alternate titles include: Sir Lionell, Isaac-a-Bell and Hugh the Graeme, The Jovial Hunter of Bromsgrove, The Old Man and hisThree Sons, Bold Sir Rylas, Bangum and the Boar, The Wild Boar and Sir Eglamore.

For a complete list of Child Ballads at this site see Francis J. Child Ballads.

• Versions in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
  
  
• Versions at Digital Tradition. To find these search for Child #18.
  
  • Jovial Hunter or Sir Lionel
  • Old Bangum
  • Sir Eglamore
  • Wild Boar (1, 3)
  
  

• Medieval Hunting
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