Author's Notes - The Cock o’ the North by A.J. Hall

While Gondal, Angria and Gaaldine are creations of the Bronte children, this particular version of these countries owes rather more to the Marlows’ reinvention of Gondal and Angria in Antonia Forest’s Peter’s Room

Though the ballad of Sweetmilk Willie Armstrong’s bridal feast does not exist, similar material can be found in: ‘The English and Scottish Popular Ballads’ — Francis James Child