The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk StoryGerould, Gordon Hall
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The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story
Gerould, Gordon Hall
Dead -- Folklore; Folk literature -- Themes, motives; Grateful dead (Tale)
See Furnivall, Captain Cox, his Ballads and Books, Ballad
Soc. 1871, vii. xxxvii and 30.
Jean de Calais.
I. Mme. Angelique de Gomez, Histoire de Jean de Calais, 1723. Sketched
in the Bibliotheque universelle des romans, Dec. 1776, pp. 134
ff. Koehler, Germania, iii. 204 ff., gives a summary of the work,
which Mme. de Gomez stated was "tire d'un livre qui a pour titre:
Histoire fabuleuse de la Maison des Rois de Portugal." A later
anonymous redaction of this Jean de Calais exists in prints of 1770,
1776, and 1787, and it continued to be issued in the nineteenth
century. Summarized by Hippe, pp. 156 f., and by Sepp, pp. 685
f. Mentioned by Koehler in Gonzenbach, Sicil. Maerchen, ii. 250.
II. Blade, Contes populaires de la Gascogne, 1886, ii. 67-90. This
and the following folk-versions of Jean deserve careful consideration
because of the interesting character of their variations.
III. J. B. Andrews, Folk-Lore Record, iii. 48 ff., from Mentone. See
Liebrecht, Engl. Stud. v. 158, and Hippe, p. 157.
IV. and V. J. B. Andrews, Contes ligures, traditions de la Riviere,
1892, pp. 111-116, no. 26, and pp. 187-192, no. 41. These two versions
differ slightly from one another, but more from the preceding.
VI. P. Sebillot, Contes populaires de la Haute-Bretagne, 3me. serie,
1882, pp. 164-171.
VII. Wentworth Webster, Basque Legends, 1877, pp. 151-154. See Luzel,
Legendes chretiennes, p. 90, note.
VIII. A. Le Braz, La legende de la mort chez les Bretons armoricains,
nouv. ed., 1902, ii. 211-231.
IX. L. Giner Arivau, Folk-Lore de Proaza (Asturia), in Biblioteca de
las tradiciones populares espanolas, viii. 194-201 (1886).
X. Gittee and Lemoine, Contes populaires du pays Wallon, 1891,
pp. 57-61.
Walewein.
Roman van Walewein, ed. Jonckbloet, 1846. Analyzed by G. Paris,
Hist. litt. de la France, xxx. 82-84, and by W. P. Ker, The Roman
van Walewein (Gawain) in Folk-Lore, v. 121-127 (1894). My analysis
is a combination made from these two summaries.
Lotharingian.
Cosquin, Contes populaires de Lorraine, 1886, i. 208-212
(no. xix). Noted by Hippe, p. 157.
Gasconian.
Cenac Moncaut, Contes populaires de la Gascogne, 1861, pp. 5-14,
"Rira bien qui rira le dernier." Summarized by Koehler, Or. und
Occ. ii. 329. Mentioned by Hippe, p. 157, and by Groome, Folk-Lore,
ix. 239.
Dianese.
Novella di Messer Dianese e di Messer Gigliotto, ed. d'Ancona and
Sforza, 1868. Analyzed by Liebrecht, Heid. Jahrbuecher der Lit. lxi. 450
(1868), by d'Ancona, Romania, iii. 191, (reprinted in his Studj di
critica e storia, 1880, p. 353), and by Hippe, p. 152. D'Ancona's
summary is from Papanti, nov. xxi. The variant is of the fourteenth
century, according to the writer of the introduction of the edition of
1868, p. 5. See also Foerster, Richars li Biaus, p. xxiv, and Wilhelmi,
pp. 44 and 57.
Stellante Costantina.
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