Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

31. The Marriage of Sir Gawain

P. 292 b, last paragraph but one. Add: 'Gorvömb,' Arnason, II, 375, Powell. Icelandic Legends, Second Series, 366, 'The Paunch.' Gorvömb, a monstrous creature, in reward for great services, asks to have the king's brother for husband, and in bed turns into a beautiful princess. She had been suffering under the spells of a step-mother.

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