Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

11. The Cruel Brother

P. 142 b, 496 a, III, 499 a, IV, 449 a. Add a ballad of Rissiald, Canti popolari Emiliani, Maria Carmi, Archivio, XII, 185, No 7.

144 a, 1. 18. 'Le Testament de Marion.' Another version, 'La belo Marioun,' Laroche, Folklore du Lauraguais, p. 247.

144 b, 2d paragraph. Add at the end: the (she) ass, Testament de l'Ane, Buchon, Noels et Chants pop. de la Franche-Comté, p. 89, No 28; and elsewhere.

147. E. For this stanza we find, whatever may be the explanation, the following in Findlay Manuscripts, I, 146. "From Miss Butchart, Arbroath."

There were three sisters livd in a bouer,
With a hech hey an a lillie gay
There cam a knicht to be their wooer.
An the primrose springs sae sweetly
Sing An net, an Marrot, an fair Maisrie,
An the dew hangs in the wood, gay ladie.

P. 144 a. For 'Frau von Weissenburg,' 'Frau von der Löwenburg,' 'Junker Hans Steutlinger,' see Erk, ed. Böhme, Nos. 102, 103, I, 360 ff.

144 b, 2d paragraph, V, 208 b. Add: 'Le Testament du Chien,' Bédier, Les Fabliaux, 2d ed., p. 473; 'Testament de la vieille Jument,' 'de la vieille Truie,' 'de la Chèvre,' Luzel, Chansons pop. de la Basse-Bretagne, II, 88-97. 'The Robin's Last Will,' Miss M.H. Mason's Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, p. 41.

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