The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
[90] This toilet derives importance solely from the agreement with
Judith x, 3: for the rest it is entirely in the ballad style. Compare
the toilets in 'Hafsfrun,' Afzelius, No 92, III, 148, Arwidsson, No 150,
II, 320, Wigström, Folkdiktning, No 2, p. 11, Landstad, No 55, p. 494:
'Guldsmedens Datter,' Grundtvig, No. 245, IV, 481 ff, Wigström, ib., No
18, p. 37, Landstad, No 43, p. 437: Torkilds Riim, Lyngbye, Færøiske
Qvæder, 534, 535, Afzelius, III, 202: 'Stolts Karin,' Arwidsson, No 63,
I, 388: 'Liti Kerstis hevn,' Landstad, No 67, p. 559 == 'Lord Thomas and
Fair Annet': in many of which there is a gold crown. There is a man's
toilet in Grundtvig, No 207, IV, 201.
[91] Bugge would naturally have seen the Assyrian scouts that Judith
falls in with (x, 11) in Roland's father, mother, and brother, all of
whom hail the maid as she is making for Roland's quarters (#C# 30-38);
still more "Holofernes jacebat in lecto" (xiii, 4), in "Roland die op
zijn bedde lag," #C# 39.
[92] Judith xiv, 1: "Suspendite caput hoc super muros nostros." The
cutting off and bringing home of the head, as need hardly be said, is
not of itself remarkable, being found everywhere from David to Beówulf,
and from Beówulf to 'Sir Andrew Barton.'
[93] Dutch #B#, which, as before said, has been completely rewritten,
makes the comparison with Holofernes:
34
'Ik heb van't leven hem beroofd,
in mynen schoot heb ik zyn hoofd,
hy is als Holofernes gelooft.'
37
Zy reed dan voort als Judith wys,
zoo regt nae haer vaders paleis,
daer zy wierd ingehaeld met eer en prys.
5
GIL BRENTON
#A. a.# 'Gil Brenton,' Jamieson Brown MS., fol. 34. #b.#
'Chil Brenton,' William Tytler Brown MS., No 3.
#B.# 'Cospatrick,' Scott's Minstrelsy, II, 117 (1802).
#C.# 'We were sisters, we were seven,' Cromek's Remains of
Nithsdale and Galloway Song, p. 207.
#D.# 'Lord Dingwall,' Buchan's Ballads of the North of
Scotland, I, 204.
#E.# Elizabeth Cochrane's song-book, No 112.
#F. a.# 'Lord Brangwill,' Motherwell's MSS, p. 219. #b.#
'Lord Bengwill,' Motherwell's Minstrelsy, Appendix, p.
xvi.
#G.# 'Bothwell,' Herd's Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, p.
244.
#H.# Kinloch MSS, V, 335.
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