P. 233 ff. 'Stjærnevisen,' Kristensen, XI, 207, No 76 A, B, has nothing about Stephen, but is confined to the scripture-history, piety, and New Year's wishes.
P. 236 a, IV, 451 b. French. An imperfect French ballad in Mélusine, VI, 24, from a wood-cut "at least three centuries old."
Add a Piedmontese popular tale communicated by Count Nigra to the editor of Mélusine, VI, 25 f.
M. Gaidoz, at the same place, 26 f., cites two versions of the resuscitation of the cock, from example-books. The first, from Erythraeus (i.e. Rossi), ch. CLV, p. 187, is essentially the same as the legend of St. Gunther given from Acta Sanctorum (p. 239 a). The other, from the Giardino d' Essempi of Razzi, is the story told by Vincentius (p. 237, note f).
P. 236 a, last paragraph. Here, and in other places in volumes I, II, Catalan is treated as if it were a dialect of Spanish. The corrections required are as follows: I, 236 a, last paragraph, 384 a, 2d par., 505 a, 2d par.; II, 174 a, 2d par., 347 a, 2d par., 512 a, No 72, read Catalan for Spanish, and I, 384 a, 2d par., drop K. I, 462 a, 3d par., read Catalan for C. II, 69 a, 7th line, 113 b, 11th line, 158, 2d par., read Spanish and Catalan, and at the last place insert Catalan before the 3d and 4th citations and transfer them to the end.
237, III, 502 b. The Breton story with the miraculous sustentation of the maid (but without the marvel of the capon): Böhme's Erk, I, 637 ff., No 213 a, 'Die Weismutter,' b, 'Die unschuldig gehangene und gerettete Dienstmagd,' and note to b; Wolfram, p. 38, No 10, 'Zu Frankfurt steht ein Wirtshaus.'
240 f., 505 f., II, 501 b, IV, 451 f. Joie des Bestes. Add: Marin, Cantos Populares, I, 61, No 124; Iglesia, El Idioma Gallego ('a maldicion d'a ovella'), cf. II, 8, note †, III, 174, both cited by Munthe.
240, 241, 505 b, II, 501 b, III, 502 b, IV, 452 a, V, 212 a. A roast pheasant gets feathers and flies away in attestation of a tale: M. Wardrop, Georgian Folktales, p. 10 f., No 2. G.L.K.
Fish flying out of the pan. See Wesselofsky, Archiv f. slavische Philologie, VI, 574.
241 b. Herod's questions. Compare Bergström and Nordlander, 98, 3; Pidal, p. 128.
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