Child Ballads - Additions and Corrections

80. Old Robin of Portingale

P. 240 a. 'Sleep you, wake you.' Add: 'Young Beichan,' No 53, B 5; Duran, Romancero, I, 488, Nos 742, 743.

240 a, II, 513 a.

The very wicked knight Owen, after coming out of St. Patrick's Purgatory, lay in his orisons fifteen days and nights before the high altar,

"And suþþe in is bare flech þe holi crois he nom,
And wende to þe holi lond, and holi mon bicom."

Horstmann, Altengl. Legenden, 1875, p. 174, vv. 611-612; also p. 208, v. 697, and p. 209, v. 658. In a mediæval traveller's tale the Abyssinians are said to burn the cross in their children's foreheads. "Vort wonent da andere snoide kirsten in deme lande ind die heischent Ysini; wan man yr kinder douft ind kirsten macht, dan broet der priester yn eyn cruce vor dat houft." Ein niederrheinischer Bericht über den Orient, ed. Röhricht u. Meier, in Zacher's Zeitschrift, XIX, 15. (G.L.K.)

To be Corrected in the Print.

513 a, seventh line from bottom. Read quam.

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

240 a, note. Read Madden.

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