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
[44] ‘A Pleasant History of Roswall and Lillian,’ etc., Edinburgh,
1663, reprint by David Laing, Edinburgh, 1822. Edited, with collation
of the later texts and valuable contributions to the traditional
history of the tale, by O. Lengert, Englische Studien, XVI, 321 ff.,
XVII, 341 ff.
[45] The Grimms have indicated some of the tales belonging to this
group, in their notes to No 136 and No 89. Others have been added by
Lengert in Englische Studien. A second group, which has several of the
marks of the first, is treated by Köhler, with his usual amplitude,
in Archiv für Litteraturgeschichte, XII, 142-44. Abstracts of many
tales of both groups, including all that I have cited, are given by
Lengert.--See further in Additions, p. 280 f.
[46] ‘Kraljev sin,’ ‘The King’s Son,’ Bosanske narodne pripovjedke,
1870, No 4, p. 11, Serbian Folk-Lore, Madam Csedomille Mijatovies, ‘One
good turn deserves another,’ p. 189.
[47] Dietrich, Russische Volksmärchen, No 10, p. 131; Vogl, Die
ältesten Volksmärchen der Russen, p. 55. ‘Sługobyl,’ Gliński, Bajarz
polski, I, 166, ed. 1862, Chodzko, Contes des paysans et des patres
slaves, p. 193, is an abridged form of the same story, with a
traditional variation at the beginning, and in the conclusion a quite
too ingenious turn as to the certificate.
[48] Also, Waldau, Böhmisches Märchenbuch, p. 50, after Franz Rubeš.
[49] I can make no guess that I am willing to mention as to the
derivation and meaning of Dissawar. The old woman in the romance, v.
249 ff., says, ‘Dissawar is a poor name, yet Dissawar you shall not be,
for good help you shall have;’ and the schoolmaster, v. 283 ff., says,
‘Dissawar, thou shalt want neither meat nor laire.’ It would seem that
they understood the word to mean, “in want.” Some predecessor of the
romance may by and by be recovered which shall put the meaning beyond
doubt.
[50] Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, 1875, I, 523 and note. “In 1585, a
man that had been robbed, and had sworn silence, told his story to a
stove in a tavern.” A boy who has come to knowledge of a plot, and has
been sworn to secrecy on pain of death, unburdens his mind to a stove.
Grimm, Deutsche Sagen, No 513, II, 231.
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THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE
‘The Suffolk Miracle.’ =a.= Wood, E. 25, fol. 83. =b.= Roxburghe, II,
240; Moore’s Pictorial Book of Ancient Ballad Poetry, p. 463.
Also Pepys, III, 332, No 328; Crawford, No 1363; Old Ballads, 1723, I,
266.
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