The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story — John Shaqi
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)
Asbjoernsen, Illustreret Kalender, 1855, pp. 32-39, Iuletraeet, no. 9,
and Norske Folke-Eventyr, no. 100, pp. 201-214. Translated by Dasent,
Tales from the Fjeld, 1874, pp. 71-88. Cited by Stephens, p. 8,
Liebrecht, Germania, xxiv. 131, and Groome, Gypsy Folk-Tales, p. 3,
note. Somewhat inadequate summaries by Liebrecht, Heid. Jahrbuecher
der Lit. lxi. 452, Hippe, p. 159, and Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 230.
Icelandic I.
Arnason, Islenzkar ■josoegur og aefintyri, 1864, ii. 473-479. English
translation in Powell and Magnusson, Legends Collected by Jon. Arnason,
1866, pp. 527-540. German translation in Poestion, Islaendische Maerchen,
1884, p. 274. Cited by Liebrecht, Heid. Jahrbuecher, lxi. 451, and
Germania, xxiv. 131, and by Wilhelmi, p. 45. Summary by Koehler,
Or. und Occ. iii. 101 f., and by Hippe, p. 159.
Icelandic II.
A. Ritterhaus, Die neuislaendischen Volksmaerchen, 1902, no. 57,
pp. 232-235. From MS. 537, Landesbibliothek, Reykjavik.
Rittertriuwe.
F. H. von der Hagen, Gesammtabenteuer, 1850, i. 105-128, no. 6. A
poem of 866 lines from the fourteenth century. Summaries in Benfey,
Pant. i. 221, in Simrock, pp. 100-103, and, with a rather bad error,
in Hippe, p. 164. See Foerster, Richars li Biaus, p. xxiv. Compared
with Richars, Oliver, and Lion de Bourges by Wilhelmi, pp. 56 f.
Treu Heinrich.
Der Junker und der treue Heinrich, ed. K. Kinzel, 1880. Previously
edited and analyzed by von der Hagen, Gesammtabenteuer, iii. 197-255,
no. 64. Summary by Simrock, pp. 103 f. Cited by Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock I.
J. W. Wolf, Deutsche Hausmaerchen, 1858, pp. 243-250, contributed by
W. von Ploennies. Summary by Simrock, pp. 46-51, by Koehler, Or. und
Occ. iii. 98, and by Sepp, p. 683. Cited by Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock II.
W. von Ploennies in Zts. f. deutsche Myth. ii. 373-377. From the
Odenwald. Summary by Simrock, pp. 51-54. See Hippe, p. 165. This
is the story analyzed by Sepp, p. 688 f., though he also refers to
Wolf's and Zingerle's tales.
Simrock III.
E. Meier, Deutsche Volksmaerchen aus Schwaben, 1852,
no. 42. pp. 143-153. Summarized by Simrock, pp. 54-58, Koehler,
Or. und Occ. iii. 99, and Sepp, pp. 686 f. See Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock IV.
H. Proehle, Kinder- und Volksmaerchen, 1853, pp. 239-246. Summary by
Simrock, pp. 58-62. See Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock V.
Simrock, pp. 62-65, contributed by Zingerle, who afterwards printed
it in the Zts. f. deutsche Myth. ii. 367 ff., in Sagen, Maerchen und
Gebraeuche aus Tirol, 1859, pp. 444 f., and in Kinder- und Hausmaerchen
aus Tirol, 2nd ed., 1870, pp. 261-267. Analyzed without mention of
source by Sepp, pp. 687 f. See Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock VI.
Simrock, pp. 65-68, from Xanten. See Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock VII.
Simrock, pp. 68-75, from Xanten. See Hippe, p. 165.
Simrock VIII.
F. Woeste, Zts. f. deutsche Myth. iii. 46-50, from Grafschaft
Mark. Given by Simrock, pp. 75-80. Analyzed by Sepp, p. 685, who
inadvertently speaks of it as "nach irischer Sage." See Hippe, p. 165.
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