After the hero has successively disposed of his nine or ten antagonists (he takes them ‘man for man’), he is stabbed from behind in a cowardly way, #A#, #B#, #C#, #E#, #I#, #L#, #N#, by somebody. The tradition is much blurred here; it is a squire out of the bush, a cowardly man, a fause lord. An Englishman shoots him with an arrow out of a bush in #D#. But other reports are distinct. The lady’s father runs him through (not from behind) in #J#, #K#. Her brother springs from a bush behind and runs him through, #L#. Her brother John comes behind him and slays him, #N#. Up and rose her brother James and slew him, #M#. In #E# “that stubborn knight” comes behind him and runs his body through, and that (a) “stubborn lord” is the author of his death in #G#, #F#. Taking #E# 2, 8, 9 together, the stubborn knight, at least in #E#, may be interpreted as good-brother John, whose treachery is feared in #E# 2, who is prominent in #A# 6, and who is expressly said to slay his sister’s true-love in #N#. On the whole, the preponderance of tradition is to the effect that the hero was treacherously slain by his wife’s (love’s) brother. Word of her husband’s death is sent or carried to the wife by her brother, brother John, #A#, #E#, #L#, #N#; her or his three brothers, #D# 8; her or his brother, #I# 8; his man John, #C# 12, by mistake; her father (?), #J#, #K#; her sister Anne, #F#, #G#, #H#. The wife has had a dream that she, her lord or true-love and she, had been pulling green heather (birk) in Yarrow, #A#, #C-F#, #I-M#, #O#.[101] The dream is explained to signify her lord’s death, and she is enjoined to fetch him home. In #A#, the dream occurs before the fight and is double, of pulling green heather and of her love coming headless home; in #B#, the lady dreams that her lord was sleeping sound in Yarrow, and in the highly vitiated #N# that ‘he had lost his life.’ The wife hurries to Yarrow;[102] up a high, high hill and down into the valley, where she sees nine (ten) dead men, #E#, #F#, #G#, #M# (nine well-armed men, wrongly, #H#).[103] She sees her true-love lying slain, finds him sleeping sound, in Yarrow, #A#, #B#, #J#, #K#. She kisses him and combs his hair, #A#, #E#, #F#, #G#, #I#, #L#, #M#; she drinks the blood that runs from him, #E# 12, #F# 11, #G# 7, #M# 9.[104]