P. 240. 'Sleep you, wake you.' So, 'Soldatenlohn,' Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, II, 426, sts. 6,7; Hruschka u. Toischer, Deutsche Volkslieder aus Böhmen, p. 183, No 147 a, 45, b 35, p. 195, No 171, 21, No 172, 4.
240, 513 a, III, 514, IV, 476. Two religious persons from India display to the Pope a cross burned on the breast in token of Christian faith, and also a baptismal mark on the right ear, "non flumine sed flamine:" Chronicon Adae de Usk ad ann. 1404, ed. E.M. Thompson, p. 90. See also the reference to York's Marco Polo, 1875, II, 421, in Mr. Thompson's note, p. 219. (G.L.K.)
[P. 240. Dr. Axel Olrik thinks that this ballad is related to the Danish ballad 'Utro Fæstemø vil forgive sin Fæstemand,' No 345 in the Grundtvig-Olrik collection (Ridderviser, I, 167, note *), which he refers for its origin to the story of the Lombard queen Rosemunda (see note on 'Lord Randal,' No 12, p. 286, above). The drink promised to Old Robin by his wife Dr. Olrik thinks may indicate that the English ballad was once more similar to the Danish than it is in the version which we possess.]
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