The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 2 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
Scandinavian, from the German: 'Ungersvennens Dröm,' Fagerlund,
Anteckningar, p. 196; 'Jungfruns död,' Wigström, Folkdiktning, I,
52; and besides these Swedish copies, a Danish broadside, from the
beginning of this century, which is very common. 'Stolten Hellelille,'
"Tragica, No 22," 1657, Danske Viser, III, 184, No 130 (translated by
Prior, III, 214), a somewhat artificial piece, has the outline of 'Der
Ritter u. die Maid,' and is a hundred years older than any known copy
of the German ballad.
A Wendish ballad, founded on the German, is very like (4): Haupt and
Schmaler, I, 139, No 136.
A Dutch ballad, in the Antwerpener Liederbuch, No 45, Hoffmann,
Niederländische Volkslieder, p. 61, No 15, Willems, p. 154, No 60,
Uhland, No 97 B, has some points of the above, but is a very different
story.
[122] There is a Finnish form of this ballad, probably derived
from the Swedish; also another Swedish version in Westergötlands
Fornminnesförenings Tidskrift, 1869, häfte 1, which I have not yet seen.
[123] (1), "Bothe, Frühlings-Almanach," p. 132, 1806; 'Hans Markgraf,'
Büsching u. von der Hagen, p. 30; Erlach, II, 136; Mittler, No 133.
(2), 'Alle bei Gott die sich lieben,' Wunderhorn, II, 250, 1808,
Mittler, No 128. (3), 'Alle bei Gott die sich lieben,' Hoffmann
u. Richter, p. 12, No 5, Mittler, No 132. (4), 'Der Graf u. die
Bauerntochter,' Ditfurth, II, 8, No 9. (5), 'Vom jungen Markgrafen,'
Pogatschnigg u. Hermann, II, 179, No 595. (6), 'Die junge Mutter,'
Paudler, p. 22, No 14.
(7), 'Jungfer Dörtchen ist todt,' Parisius, p. 36, No 10. (8),
'Liebchens Tod,' Erk u. Irmer, VI, 4, No 2; Mittler, No 130. (9),
'Jägers Trauer,' Pröhle, p. 86, No 57; Mittler, No 129. (10), 'Das
unverdiente Kränzlein,' Meinert, p. 32; Mittler, No 131. For plants
springing from lovers' graves, as here and in Nos 73, 74, see vol. i,
96 ff.
[124] In (2) the lover is warned of mishap by a bird, and the bird
is a nightingale, as in Kristensen, II, No 20 A. A bird of some sort
figures in all the Danish ballads referred to, printed and unprinted,
and in the Swedish 'Hertig Nils;' also in the corresponding Finnish
ballad. The nightingale warns to the same effect in a French ballad,
Beaurepaire, p. 52. The lover goes straight to his mistress's house,
and learns that they are burying her; then makes for the cemetery,
hears the bells, the priests chanting, etc., and approaches the bier.
The dead gives him some information, followed by some admonition.
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THE LASS OF ROCH ROYAL
#A.# 'Fair Isabell of Rochroyall,' Elizabeth Cochrane's
Song-Book, p. 151, No 114.
#B.# 'The Bonny Lass of Lochroyan, or Lochroyen,' Herd's
MSS, I, 144, II, 60; Herd's Scottish Songs, 1776, I, 149.
#C.# 'Lord Gregory,' Pitcairn's MSS, III, 1.
#D.# 'Fair Anny,' Jamieson-Brown MS., fol. 27; 'Fair
Annie of Lochroyan,' Jamieson's Popular Ballads, I, 36.
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