#A b#, "given from the recitation of an old woman," is evidently #A a# slightly regulated by Motherwell. #B#, we are informed in the 4th edition of the Reliques, p. 61, was sent Percy by Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. Motherwell thought there was reason to believe "that his lordship made a few slight verbal improvements on the copy he transmitted, and altered the hero's name to Edward,--a name which, by the bye, never occurs in a Scottish ballad, except where allusion is made to an English king."[150] Dalrymple, at least, would not be likely to change a Scotch for an English name. The Bishop might doubtless prefer Edward to Wat, or Jock, or even Davie. But as there is no evidence that any change of name was made, the point need not be discussed. As for other changes, the word "brand," in the first stanza, is possibly more literary than popular; further than this the language is entirely fit. The affectedly antique spelling[151] in Percy's copy has given rise to vague suspicions concerning the authenticity of the ballad, or of the language: but as spelling will not make an old ballad, so it will not unmake one. We have, but do not need, the later traditional copy to prove the other genuine. 'Edward' is not only unimpeachable, but has ever been regarded as one of the noblest and most sterling specimens of the popular ballad. Motherwell seems to incline to regard 'Edward' rather as a detached portion of a ballad than as complete in itself. "The verses of which it consists," he says, "generally conclude the ballad of 'The Twa Brothers,' and also some versions of 'Lizie Wan:'" Minstrelsy, LXVII, 12. The Finnish parallel which Motherwell refers to, might have convinced him that the ballad is complete as it is; and he knew as well as anybody that one ballad is often appended to another by reciters, to lengthen the story or improve the conclusion.[152] More or less of 'Edward' will be found in four versions of 'The Twa Brothers' and two of 'Lizie Wan,' further on in this volume. This ballad has been familiarly known to have an exact counterpart in #Swedish#. There are four versions, differing only as to length: 'Sven i Rosengård,' #A#, Afzelius, No 67, III, 4, eleven two-line stanzas, with three more lines of burden; #B#, III, 3, six stanzas (Bergström's ed., No 54, 1, 2); #C#, Arwidsson, No 87 #A#, II, 83, eighteen stanzas; #D#, No 87 B, II, 86, sixteen stanzas. The same in #Danish#: #A#, Grundtvig, Engelske og skotske Folkeviser, p. 175, nine stanzas; #B#, Boisen, Nye og gamle Viser, 10th ed., No 95, p. 185, 'Brodermordet.' And in #Finnish#, probably derived from the Swedish, but with traits of its own: #A#, Schröter's Finnische Runen, p. 124, 'Werinen Pojka,' The Bloodstained Son, fifteen two-line stanzas, with two lines of refrain; #B#, 'Velisurmaaja,' Brother-Murderer, Kanteletar, p. x, twenty stanzas.