Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

63. Child Waters

P. 83. Italian. 'Ambrogio e Lietta,' Nigra, No 35, p. 201. The Piedmontese ballad, though incomplete, has the rough behavior of the man to the woman, the crossing of the water, the castle and the mother, the stable, and twins brought forth in a manger.

84 b. Danish. 'Hr. Peders stalddreng,' Kristensen, Skattegraveren, I, 121, No 441; 'Liden Kirsten som stalddreng,' V, 98, No 645.

'Hr. Grönnevold,' Kristensen, Skattegraveren, VII, 49, No 177, is an imperfect copy of the second sort of Scandinavian ballads.

The following are mostly trivial variations from the spelling of the text.

90 b, 26¹. Read won, twice.

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