Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

11. The Cruel Brother

P. 142 b, 496 a, III, 499 a. B was repeated by Salvadori in Giornale di Filologia Romanza, II, 197; and E was first published by Mazzatinti in IV, 69, of the same.

142 f. A variety of 'Graf Friedrich' in Hruschka u. Toischer, Deutsche Volkslieder aus Böhmen, p. 101, No 25.

143 b. in, 499. Testament. 'Hr. Adelbrand,' Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 227, 232, No 54, A, 20 ff., F, 10 ff. = 'Herr Radibrand och lilla Lena,' 'Skön Helena och riddaren Hildebrand,' Lagus, Nylandska Folkvisor, I, 89, No 25, a, b.

'Adelbrand' is No 311 of Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, V, II, 297, ed. Olrik, of which the versions that have been cited in this book are B, K e, G e, F, K b, I. There is a testament in other copies of the same. Also in No 320, not yet published.

145 ff. "Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy," No 22 a. In the handwriting of William Laidlaw; "from Jean Scott."

	There was three ladies playd at the ba, With a hey hey an a lilly gay
	Bye cam three lords an woo'd them a'. Whan the roses smelld sae sweetly
	The first o them was clad in yellow: 'O fair may, will ye be my marrow?' Whan the roses smell, etc.
	The niest o them was clad i ried: 'O fair may, will ye be my bride?'
	The thrid o them was clad i green: He said, O fair may, will ye be my queen?

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