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)
Simrock IX.
Simrock, pp. 80-89, contributed by Zingerle, who afterwards printed
it in Sagen, Maerchen und Gebraeuche aus Tirol, 1859, pp. 446-450, and
in Kinder- und Hausmaerchen aus Tirol, 2nd ed., 1870, pp. 254-260. See
Stephens, p. 9, Hippe, pp. 165 f., and Wilhelmi, p. 45.
Simrock X.
Simrock, pp. 89-94, from the foot of the Tomberg. Summarized by Koehler,
Or. und Occ. ii. 326. See Hippe, p. 166, and Wilhelmi, p. 45.
Oldenburgian.
L. Strackerjan, Aberglaube und Sagen aus dem Herzogtum Oldenburg,
1867, ii. 308 ff. Cited by Hippe, p. 166, and by Foerster, Richars
li Biaus, p. xxviii.
Harz I.
A. Ey, Harzmaerchenbuch, 1862, pp. 64-74. Summary by Koehler, Or. und
Occ. iii. 96. Cited by Hippe, p. 166.
Harz II.
A. Ey, work cited, pp. 113-118. Summary by Koehler, Or. und
Occ. iii. 97. Cited by Hippe, p. 166.
Sir Amadas.
Ed. Weber, Metrical Romances, 1810, iii. 241-275, Robson, Three Early
English Metrical Romances, 1842, pp. 27-56, Stephens, Ghost-Thanks,
1860. Stephens seems to have been the first to note the connection of
Sir Amadas with The Grateful Dead. The romance, as it is preserved in
two manuscripts of the fifteenth century, must accordingly have been
composed as early as the second half of the preceding century. It
contains 778 verses in the tail-rhyme stanza. Summarized by Koehler,
Or. und Occ. ii. 325, by Foerster, Richars li Biaus, pp. xxiv-xxvi,
by Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 236, and by Hippe (with great care),
pp. 160-164. Compared with Oliver by Wilhelmi, pp. 58 f.
Jack the Giant Killer.
Found without essential difference in several chapbooks, the earliest
owned by the British Museum being entitled: The Second Part of |
Jack and the Giants. | Giving a full Account of his victorious
Conquests over | the North Country Giants; destroying the inchanted |
Castle kept by Galligantus; dispersed the fiery Grif- | fins; put
the Conjuror to Flight; and released not | only many Knights and
Ladies, but likewise a Duke's | Daughter, to whom he was honourably
married. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1711. [35] Other editions with the story
are: The History of Jack and the Giants, Aldermary Churchyard, London;
same title, Bow Church Yard, London; same title, Cowgate, Edinburgh;
The Pleasant and delightful History of Jack and the Giants, Nottingham,
Printed for the Running Stationers, and The Wonderful History of Jack
the Giant-Killer, Manchester, Printed by A. Swindells; all without
date. The Newcastle edition was reprinted by Halliwell-Phillipps in
Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, 1849, in which our tale appears
at pp. 67-77. Apparently the British Museum copy dated 1711 is that
owned by Halliwell-Phillipps. From his edition it has been reprinted
by Groome, Folk-Lore, ix. 237 f., and summarized by Koehler, Or. und
Occ. ii. 327 f., and Sepp, p. 685. See also Stephens, p. 8, Hippe,
p. 164, and Wilhelmi, p. 45.
Factor's Garland. [36]
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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