Motherwell, who cites a manuscript of Buchan, prints the first three stanzas and the last with some variations: Introduction, p. lxvi, note **. The ballad is not in Buchan's two manuscript volumes. [65] So maintaine vs all in our right? [66] To this suggestion the actual form of stanzas 8, 11 lends a faint plausibility. [67] Percy MS., Hales and Furnivall, I, 367, 372 f, 389, 391. For the name of the sword see Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 500. [68] Cited by Scott, Minstrelsy, II, 273, ed. 1833; Otia Imperialia, ed. Liebrecht, LIX, p. 26. [69] Grundtvig's #A#, #B# are translated by Dr Prior, I, 276. The story is found also in Icelandic rímur of the 15th century printed in Björner's Kämpedater, 1737. Björner was acquainted with an old Swedish ballad on the subject, but this ballad has not been found. The story of these rímur is given by Mallet, Histoire de Dannemarc, II, 312, ed. 1787, and in Percy's translation, Northern Antiquities, II, 248. [70] So, as to _and_, the German 'Ulinger,' Mittler, p. 68, sts 21, 22, 23; den ersten schrey _und_ den sie thet, etc. [71] The Percy manuscript was inspected by many persons near the time of the first publication of the Reliques, and again while the fourth edition was going through the press, but it is not for a moment to be suggested or supposed that anything in the Scottish 'Sir Colvin' is to be accounted for in that way. 62 FAIR ANNIE #A.# 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annie,' Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, II, 102, 1802; 31 stanzas. #B.# 'Burd Helen,' Jamieson's Popular Ballads, II, 376; 26 stanzas. #C.# 'Fair Annie,' Motherwell's MS., p. 351; 33 stanzas. #D.# Herd, The Ancient and Modern Scots Songs, 1769, p. 307; 8 stanzas. #E.# 'Lady Jane,' Jamieson-Brown MS., fol. 20, Jamieson's Popular Ballads, II, 371; 20 stanzas. #F.# 'Fair Annie,' Motherwell's MS., p. 385, Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 327; 32 stanzas. #G.# Communicated by Miss Reburn; 5 stanzas. #H.# Communicated by Dr Thomas Davidson; 2 stanzas. #I.# 'Fair Annie,' Kinloch MSS, I, 155; 45 stanzas. #J.# 'The Fause Lord,' Buchan's MSS, I, 66; 65 stanzas. The fragment #D#, printed in 1769, antedates the committing to writing of any of the other versions. #E# was taken down as early as 1783. #A# and #B# are from the beginning of this century. #A# was obtained "chiefly from the recitation of an old woman," but we are not informed who supplied the rest. Herd's fragment, #D#, furnished stanzas 2-6, 12, 17, 19. A doubt may be hazarded whether stanzas 8-10 came from the old woman. #I# is a combination of three recited versions, and #J#, perhaps a transcript of a stall-copy, is, like many of Buchan's ballads, extended to twice the length of genuine versions by tedious, sometimes nauseous, amplification and interpolation.