Ed de Moel

Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

42. Clerk Colvill

P. 374 b. Swedish. 'Prins Olof,' Wigström, Folkdiktning, II, 16, is rationalized; the elf is simply a frilla, mistress.

379 a. Add: Breton G, 'Le Sone de la Fiancée,' Revue des Provinces, III, 3e livraison; Bladé, not seen by me.

380 a. French C. Say 'Le Fils Arnaud,' Noëlas, Essai d'un Romancero forezien, 68 verses.

380 b. Add: HH, II, 'Jean Renaud,' Decombe, Chansons pop. d'Ille-et-Vilaine, Nos 89, 90, pp. 253, 256; JJ, Le Limousin. KK, Le Loiret, LL, La Vendée, in Mélusine, II, cols 302-305: the last from "Revue de la Province de l'Ouest, 1856-57, IV, 50."

The first stanza, and four of the concluding, in Poésies pop. de la France, Manuscript, VI, 491 and 491 bis.

382 a. Italian B also in Rivista di letteratura popolare, p. 56, 1877.

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