'Hildebrand and Hilde' exists in Swedish in three versions: #A#, a broadside of the last part of the seventeenth century, now printed in the new edition of Afzelius, p. 142 ff of the notes (the last nine stanzas before, in Danske Viser, III, 438 f); #B#, Afzelius, No 32, new ed. No 26, #C#, Arwidsson, No 107, both taken down in this century. In #A# and #B# Hillebrand, son of the king of England, carries off Hilla; they halt in a grove; she wakes him from his sleep when she hears her father and seven brothers coming; he enjoins her not to call him by name, which still she does upon her father's being slain [or when only her youngest brother is left], and Hillebrand thereupon receives mortal wounds. He wipes his sword, saying, This is what you would deserve, were you not Hilla. The youngest brother ties Hilla to his horse, drags her home, and confines her in a dark house, which swarms with snakes and dragons (#A# only). They sell her for a new church bell, and her mother's heart breaks at the first sound. Hilla falls dead at the queen's knee. #C# has lost the dead-naming, and ends with the queen's promising to be Hilla's best friend. A detailed comparison of the English ballads, and especially of 'Earl Brand,' with the Scandinavian (such as Grundtvig has made, III, 855 f) shows an unusual and very interesting agreement. The name Earl Brand, to begin with, is in all probability a modification of the Hildebrand found in Danish 82 #N#, #O#, #P#, #V#, #C*#, in all versions of Danish 83, and in the corresponding Swedish #A#. Ell, too, in Percy's fragment, which may have been Ellë earlier, points to Hilde, or something like it, and Erl-inton might easily be corrupted from such a form as the Alibrand of Norwegian #B# (Grundtvig, III, 858). Hildebrand is the son of the king of England in Danish 83 #A-E#, and the lady in 'Earl Brand' is the same king's daughter, an interchange such as is constantly occurring in tradition. Stanza 2 can hardly be the rightful property of 'Earl Brand.' Something very similar is met with in 'Leesome Brand,' and is not much in place there. For 'old Carl Hood,' of whom more presently, Danish 82 #X# and Norwegian #A#, #C# have an old man, Danish #C# a crafty man, #T# a false younker, and Norwegian #B# and three others "false Pál greive." The lady's urging Earl Brand to slay the old carl, and the answer, that it would be sair to kill a gray-haired man, sts 8, 9, are almost literally repeated in Norwegian #A#, Landstad, No 33. The knight does slay the old man in Danish #X# and Norwegian #C#, and slays the court page in Danish #Z#, and false Pál greive in Norwegian #B#,--in this last _after_ the battle. The question, "Where have ye stolen this lady away?" in st. 11, occurs in Danish 82 #A#, #D#, #E#, #K#, #P#, #R#, #S#, #T#, #Z#, in Norwegian #B# and Icelandic #B#, and something very similar in many other copies. The reply, "She is my sick sister, whom I have brought from Winchester" [nunnery], is found almost literally in Danish