Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

15. Leesome Brand

P. 179 a. Swedish. II. Add: I, 'Risa lill,' Wigström, Folkdiktning, II, 28.

180 a, lines 25, 26. Read: A, G, M, X.

181 a. German. Add: D, 'Der Ritter und seine Geliebte,' Ditfurth, Deutsche Volks- und Gesellschaftslieder des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts, p. 14, No 13. (Köhler.)

181 b. French. C. A still more corrupted copy in Poésies populaires de la France, III, fol. 143, 'La fausse morte.' D. Fol. 215 of the same volume, a very pretty ballad from Périgord, which has lost most of the characteristic incidents, but not the tragic conclusion.

182 b, first paragraph. A similar scene, ending happily, in I Complementi della Chanson d'Huon de Bordeaux, pubblicati da A. Graf, pp 26 ff. (Köhler.)

183 b, stanzas 27, 28. Compare:

  Modhren tarde sonnenn sinn:
'Skiuter tu diur oeh skiuter tu råå;
  'Skiuter tu diur oeh skiuter tu råå,
Then salige hindenn lätt tu gå!'

'Den förtrollade Jungfrun,' Arwidsson, II, 260, No 136, A 1, 2.

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