[164] This fine ancient Visa was taken down from recitation in West Gothland. The corresponding Danish one of Herr Tönne is much later. [165] Niebuhr, speaking of the Celsi Ramnes, says, "With us the salutation of blood relations was _Willkommen stolze Vetter_ (Welcome, proud cousins) and in the Danish ballads, proud (_stolt_) is a noble appellation of a maiden."--Römische Geschichte, 2d edit. vol. i. p. 316. It may be added, that in English, _proud_ and the synonymous term _stout_ (_stolz_, _stolt_) had also the sense of noble, high-born. Do now your devoir, yonge knightes _proud_. _Knight's Tale._ Up stood the queen and ladies _stout_. _Launfal._ [166] _Men jag vet at sorge är tung._ [167] Wain, our readers hardly need be informed, originally signified any kind of carriage: see Faerie Queene, _passim_. It is the Ang. Sax. þǽn, and not a contraction of _waggon_. [168] From Vermland and Upland. [169] This we suppose to be the meaning of _hemmagifta_, as it is that of _hemgift_, the only word approaching to it that we have met in our dictionary. [170] _Brandcreatur_, a word of which we cannot ascertain the exact meaning. We doubt greatly if the following _hielmeta_ be helmets. [171] Grimm (Deut. Mythol. p. 435) has extracted this legend from the Bahuslän of Ödman, who, as he observes, and as we may see, relates it quite seriously, and with the real names of persons. It is we believe the only legend of the union of a _man_ with one of the hill-folk. [172] "Three kings' ransoms" is a common maximum with a Danish peasant when speaking of treasure. [173] "Rid paa det Bolde, Og ikke paa det Knolde." [174] _Oral._ This is an adventure common to many countries. The church of Vigersted in Zealand has a cup obtained in the same way. The man, in this case, took refuge in the church, and was there besieged by the Trolls till morning. The bridge of Hagbro in Jutland got its name from a similar event. When the man rode off with the silver jug from the beautiful maiden who presented it to him, an old crone set off in pursuit of him with such velocity, that she would surely have caught him, but that providentially he came to a running water. The pursuer, however, like Nannie with Tam o' Shanter, caught the horse's hind leg, but was only able to keep one of the cocks of his shoe: hence the bridge was called Hagbro, _i. e._ Cock Bridge.