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
#N#, 'Es reitets ein Ritter durch Haber und Klee,' 43 vv, a fifth
Swabian version, from Hirrlingen, Meier, p. 302. #O#, 'Alte Ballade die
in Entlebuch noch gesungen wird,' twenty-three double stanzas, in the
local dialect, Schweizerblätter von Henne und Reithard, 1833, II^R
Jahrgang, 210-12. #P#, 'Das Guggibader-Lied,' twenty-one treble stanzas
(23?), in the Aargau dialect, Rochholz, Schweizersagen aus dem Aargau,
#I# 24. #Q#, 'Es sitzt gut Ritter auf und ritt,' a copy taken down in
1815 by J. Grimm, from the recitation of a lady who had heard it as a
child in German Bohemia, 74 vv, Reifferscheid, p. 162. #R#, 'Bie wrüe
işt auv der ritterşmàn, 'in the dialect of Gottschee, Carniola,
86 vv, Schröer, Sitzungsberichte der Wiener Ak., phil-hist. Cl, LX, 462.
#S#, 'Das Lied von dem falschen Rittersmann,' 60 vv, from Styria,
Rosegger and Heuberger, Volkslieder aus Steiermark, No 19, p. 17. #T#,
'Ulrich und Ännchen,'[36] 49 vv, Herder's Volkslieder, 1778, I, 79;
Mittler, No 78. #U#, 'Schön Ulrich und Roth-Aennchen,' 46 vv, in
Taschenbuch für Dichter und Dichterfreunde, Abth. viii, 126, 1778, from
Upper Lusatia (slightly altered by the contributor, Meissner); Mittler,
No 84. A copy from Kapsdorf, in Hoffmann and Richter's Schlesische V.
L., No 13, p. 27, is the same, differing by only three words. #V#,
'Schön-Aennelein,' 54 vv, from the eastern part of Brandenburg, Erk u.
Irmer, 6th Heft, p. 64, No 56 (stanzas 4-8 from the preceding). #W#,
'Schön Ullerich und Hanselein,' twenty-nine two-line stanzas, from the
neighborhood of Breslau, in Gräter's Idunna und Hermode, No 35, Aug. 29,
1812, following p. 140. The same in Schlesische V. L., No 12, p. 23,
'Schön Ulrich u. Rautendelein,' with a stanza (12) inserted; and
Mittler, No 81. #X#, 'Der Albrecht u. der Hanselein,' 42 vv, from
Natangen, East Prussia, in Neue preussische Provinzial-Blätter, 2d
series, III, 158, No 8. #Y#, 'Ulrich u. Annle,' nineteen two-line
stanzas, a second Kuhländchen version, Meinert, p. 66; Mittler, No 83.
#Z a#, 'Von einem frechen Räuber, Herr Ulrich geheissen,' nineteen
two-line stanzas, from the Rhine [Longard], No 23, p. 46. #Z b#,
'Ulrich,' as sung on the Lower Rhine, the same ballad, with unimportant
verbal differences, and the insertion of one stanza (7, the editor's?),
Zuccalmaglio, No 15, p. 39; Mittler, No 82.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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