Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

19. King Orfeo

P. 216 a, first paragraph. The Bodleian copy, B, also refers to the lay of Orpheus at the end. G.L.K. So the Lai de l'Espine, Roquefort, Poésies de Marie de France, I, 556, v. 185, and Floire et Blanceflor, ed. Du Méril, p. 231, v. 71: Zielke, Sir Orfeo, p. 131.

For correspondences between Sir Orfeo and the Irish epic tale of the Wooing of Etain. see Kittredge, in The American Journal of Philology, VII, 191 ff.

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