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
'Graf Friedrich,' Uhland, 122, Wunderhorn, II, 293, Mittler, 108, Erk's
Liederhort, 15 #a#: Graf Friedrich's bride is by accident mortally
wounded while he is bringing her home. Her father kills him, and he is
dragged at a horse's heels. Three lilies spring from his grave, with an
inscription, Er wär bei Gott geblieben. He is then buried with his
bride, the transfer being attended with other miraculous manifestations.
Other versions, Hoffmann u. Richter, 19, ==Mittler, 112, ==Liederhort,
15; Mittler, 113, 114; also Meinert, 23, ==Mittler, 109, etc.: the
lilies in most of these growing from the _bride's_ grave, with words
attesting the knight's innocence.
Lilies with inscriptions also in Wunderhorn, II, p. 251, ==Mittler, 128,
'Alle bei Gott die sich lieben;' Mittler, 130; Ditfurth, II, 4, 9;
Scherer, Jungbrunnen, 9 #A#, 25; Pogatschnigg und Hermann, 1458. Three
lilies from a maid's grave: 'Die schwazbraune Hexe' ('Es blies ein
Jäger'), Nicolai, I, 8; Wunderhorn, I, 36; Gräter's Bragur, I, 280;
Uhland, 103; Liederhort, 9; Simrock, 93; Fiedler, p. 158; Ditfurth, II,
33, 34; Reifferscheid, 15, etc. Three roses, Hoffmann u. Richter, 171,
p. 194; three pinks, _ib._, 172; rose, pink, lily, Alemannia, IV, 35.
Three lilies from a man's grave: 'Der Todwunde:' Schade, Bergreien, 10,
==Uhland, 93 #A#, ==Liederhort, 34 #g#, ==Mittler, 47, etc.
#Portuguese.# 'Conde Nillo,' 'Conde Niño,' Almeida-Garrett, III, No 18,
at p. 21; Braga, Rom. Geral., No 14, at p. 38,==Hartung, I, 17: the
infanta is buried at the foot of the high altar, Conde Nillo near the
church door; a cypress and an orange [pines]. Almeida-Garrett, III, No
20, at p. 38: a sombre clump of pines over the knight, reeds from the
princess's grave, which, though cut down, shoot again, and are heard
sighing in the night. Braga, Archip. Açor., 'Filba Maria,' 'Dom
Doardos,' 'A Ermida no Mar,' Nos 32, 33, 34, Hartung, I, 220-224;
Estacio da Veiga, 'Dom Diniz,' p. 64-67, ==Hartung, I, 217, 2: tree and
pines, olive and pines, clove-tree and pine, roses and canes: in all,
new miracles follow the cutting down. So also Almeida-Garrett, No 6, I,
167.
#Roumanian.# Alecsandri, 7, Stanley, p. 16, 'Ring and Handkerchief,'
translated by Stanley, p. 193, Murray, p. 56: a fir and a vine, which
meet over the church.
#French.# Beaurepaire, Poésie pop. en Normandie, p. 51: a thorn and an
olive are _planted_ over the graves; the thorn embraces the olive.
#Romaic.# Passow, Nos 414, 415, 456, 469; Zambelios, p. 754, No 41;
Tommaseo, Canti Popolari, III, 135; Chasiotis, p. 103, No 22: a cypress
from the man's grave, a reed from the maid's (or from a common tomb);
reversed in Passow, Nos 418, 470, and Schmidt, Griechische Märchen,
u.s.w., No 59, p. 203. Sakellarios, p. 25, No 9, cypress and apple-tree;
p. 38, No 13, cypress and lemon-tree. (F. Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, pp.
166, 168, 182, 183.)
#Servian.# Talvj, V.L. der Serben, II, p. 85: a fir and a rose; the rose
twines round the fir.
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