P. 127 a, 9th line of the second paragraph. A copy of 'Fru Margaretha ' in Harald Oluffsons Visbok, Nyare Bidrag, o.s.v., p. 36, No 16, stanzas 21, 22.
127 b, 511 b. In a Breton ballad, Mélusine, III, 350 f., a priest jumps a table, at the cry of his sister, who is in a desperate extremity.
But the greatest achievements in this way are in Slavic ballads. A bride, on learning of her bridegroom's death, jumps over four tables and lights on the fifth, rushes to her chamber and stabs herself: Moravian, Sušil, p. 83. According to a variant, p. 84, note, she jumps over nine. A repentant husband who had projected the death of his wife, on hearing that she is still living, leaps nine tables without touching the glasses on them: Magyar-Croat, Kurelac, p. 184, No 479. (W.W.)
Mr. Kittredge has given me many cases from romances.
127b, note. Sword reduced to a straw: add Nigra, No 113, etc. 'Gerineldo: ' add Pidal, Asturian Romances, Nos 3, 4, 5.
129 a, 111. Read 'O here I am' the boy says.
135 a, A. a. 111. Drop.
130 a, 33. Read Gil. 43. Read Jill.
131 a, 173. Read han. b, 193. Read ain.
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