Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

11. The Cruel Brother

Pp. 142 b, 496 a. 'Rizzardo bello,' E, 'Ruggiero,' in Mazzatinti, Canti p. umbri, p. 286, Bologna, 1883. 143 b. 'Hr. Adelbrant og jomfru Lindelil,' with a testament, again in Skattegraveren, I, 5, No I, and V, 17, No 12.

144 a, 496 b. Testaments. A wife who has been gone from home in pursuit of her pleasure is so beaten by her husband on her return that she dies. She leaves valuable legacies to her children and a rope to him. Nigra, No 25, 'Testamento della Moglie,' p. 159.

144 b. 'Raevens Arvegods,' Kristensen, Skattegraveren, II, 192 ff, Nos 774-78, and VIII, 209, No 810.

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