The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 5 (of 5)
Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
Other tales of the same derivation, but deficient in some points,
are: (=A.=) Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme
Süd-Sibiriens, IV, 385, ‘Der Peri.’ (=B.=) Straparola, Piacevoli Notti,
v, 1 (‘Guerrino, son of the king of Sicily’). (=C.=) Grimms, K.- und
Hausmärchen, No 136, II, 242, ed. 1857, ‘Der Eisenhaus.’ (=D.=) Sommer,
Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche aus Sachsen und Thüringen, p. 86, No 2,
‘Der eiserne Mann.’ (=E.=) Milenowsky, Volksmärchen aus Böhmen, p. 147,
‘Vom wilden Manne.’[48]
(1) The son of a king liberates a prisoner (peri, wild or iron man),
=A-E=. (The keys are under his mother’s pillow, =B=, =C=.) (2) The
prince goes to another kingdom, =A-D= with attendance, =E= without. (3)
His attendant forces the prince to change places and clothes, only =A=.
(Advantage is taken of the helplessness of the hero when let down into
the well to force exchange of parts, in the Servian Tales of Dj. K.
Stefanović, 1871, p. 39, No 7, Jagić, Archiv, I, 271; Meyer, Albanian
Tales, No 13, in Archiv für Litteraturgeschichte, XII, 137; Franzisci,
Cultur-Studien in Kärnten, p. 99, and, nearly the same, Dozon, Contes
Albanais, No 12, p. 83.) (5) The hero, serving as kitchen-boy or
gardener’s lad, =C=, =D=, =E=, defeats an invading army, =C=, =D=, =E=,
wins a prize three successive days, =C=, =E=, is successful in three
tasks, =A=, =B=; and all these feats are performed by the help of the
prisoner whom he set free. The variation of the color of armor and
horses occurs in =C=, =E=, an extremely frequent trait in tales and
romances; see Ward, Catalogue of Romances, etc., 734 f., Lengert, XVII,
361. (Very striking in the matter of the tournaments is the resemblance
of the romance of Ipomedon to Roswall and Lillian. Ipomedon, like
Roswall, professes not to have been accustomed to such things, and
pretends to go a-hunting, is victorious three successive days in a
white, red, black suit, on a white, bay, black steed, vanishes after
the contest, and presently reappears as huntsman, with venison which
a friend had been engaged in securing for him.) (6) The treacherous
attendant is put to death, =A=. The hero of course marries the princess
in all the tales.
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