 In the mid-80s, the song was used as the theme to Isla St Clair's factual children's TV programme "The Song and the Story", which examined the tales behind popular folk songs.In 1993 Charles Vess and Charles de Lint created a short comic book adaptation of the song, originally published in Dark Horse Presents #75.It was reprinted in The Book of Ballads and Sagas #2 in 1995, which in turn was collected in Ballads in 1997.