[54] I. Sozonovič, Bürger’s ‘Lenore,’ and the related matter in European and Russian popular poetry, Warsaw, 1893 (in Russian). Professor Wollner has furnished me translations of some twenty-five pieces in Sozonovič. See, for German versions of many of the Slavic tales and ballads, Wollner, in Archiv für slavische Philologie, VI, 243-59; Krek, in the same, X, 357-59, and in Magazin für die Litteratur des In- u. Auslandes, 1887, CXII, 629-32, 650-54; Grudziński, Lenore in Polen, 1890, p. 13 ff.; Treichel, in Zeitschrift für Volkskunde, II, 144. [55] 30, 31, 32, 50, have curious popular traits. In 30, 32, the dead man (men) within being unable to render aid, the lover calls to yarn spun on Thursday (on Thursday after the evening meal) to open. A watchman tells the yarn to stay where it was hanged; the girl cuts the skein in two with an axe. In 31 there is no corpse in the house; the lover calls on a ball of thread and a broom, ‘ohne Seele’ (with no centre-piece, no handle) to open. In 50 the dead man within cannot help the man without because a broom is standing on its handle; so the man without calls on a skein of yarn, a pot-hook, a ball of thread, to open. For various reasons these appeals prove bootless. [56] For German versions of most of the Slavic pieces, Grudziński, as before, p. 27; Wollner, as before, pp. 250, 255 f., 258; Krek, as before, p. 652. 7 also in A. Waldau’s Böhmische Granaten, II, 254, No 354. ‘Lenore’ in Wunderhorn, II, 19, 1808, is to be rejected as spurious, on internal and external evidence. See Pröhle, G. A. Bürger, Sein Leben und seine Dichtungen, 1856, p. 100 f. [57] In 11 we have to do with a married pair, as in several of the tales. In tale 44 the woman has been twice married, and her first husband comes for her. [58] No filiation is implied in the above arrangement of the ballads. [59] The mother demands tokens of her identity, Romaic 11, 12, 21, 22, Albanian 4, 5. Cf. II, 215 273 KING EDWARD THE FOURTH AND A TANNER OF TAMWORTH =a.= Wood, 401, fol. 44, Bodleian Library. =b.= Douce, I, 109, Bodleian Library. =c.= Roxburghe, I, 176, 177; Chappell, Roxburghe Ballads, I, 529. The ballad is also in the Pepys collection, II, 129, No 113, and there are two copies in the Euing collection, Nos 273, 274. The following entries occur in the Stationers’ Registers: 1564, September or October, William Greffeth licenced to print a book intituled ‘The story of Kynge Henry the IIIJ^th and the Tanner of Tamowthe.’ Arber, I, 264. 1586, August 1, Edward White, ‘A merie songe of the Kinge and the Tanner.’ Arber, II, 451.[60] 1600, October 6, William White, by the consent of Widow Danter, ‘A merye, pleasant and delectable history betwene Kinge Edward the IIIJ^{th} and a Tanner of Tamworthe,’ and, by like consent of the Widow Danter, “the bal[l]ad of the same matter that was printed by her husband John Danter.” Arber, III, 173.