Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

5. Gil Brenton

P. 63 b. Swedish. 'Riddar Olof,' Lagus, Nylandska Folkvisor, I, 63, No 16, a, b, imperfect copies.

64 b. Danish. 'Den rette Brudgom' (Samson and Vendelru), Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 363, No 97.

65 b. 'Herr Peders Hustru,' the same, p. 365, = Grundtvig, No 278.

70. B. The three stanzas which follow were communicated to Scott by Major Henry Hutton, Royal Artillery, 24th December, 1802 (Letters, I, No 77), as recollected by his father and the family. "Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy," No 18. Instead of 3,4:

	There's five o them with meal and malt, And other five wi beef and salt; There's five o them wi well-bak'd bread, And other five wi goud so red.
	There's five o them wi the ladies bright, There's other five o belted knights; There's five o them wi a good black neat, And other five wi bleating sheep.

"And before the two last stanzas, introduce"

O there was seald on his breast-bane,
'Cospatric is his father's name;'
O there was seald on his right hand
He should inherit his father's land.

so is written over the second and in 1⁸.

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