Sir Isumbras, Thornton Romances, ed. Halliwell, p. 94, v. 135 f.
King Richard, in Richard Coer de Lion, v. 1726, Weber, II, 68, says: "Upon my flesch I bare the croys." Certain young men who had refused to take the cross, having got worsted in a fight with robbers, condignly, three days afterwards, crucem quem antea spreverant in carne sibi invicem ultronei affixerunt. Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Cambriæ, ii, 7, Opera, ed. Dimock, VI, 126. G. L. K.
P. 243 b, third paragraph. Heathen child: so Sir Beues of Hamtoun, v. 3558, p. 136 (Maitland Club).
244. For wiping or whetting the sword, see further under No 99, p. 378.
P. 297 a, third paragraph. A Färöe version, 'Sveinur í Vallalíð,' one of five known, is printed by Hammershaimb, Færøsk Anthologi, No 19, p. 124.
P. 303 b, the first paragraph. Add to Bugge, No 5, Landstad's version, No 18, stanzas 6, 7, p. 224. The trait of the extraordinary growth of the boy who is to avenge his father is preserved also in the Färöe 'Sveinur í Vallalíð' (a variety of 'Ung Villum,' II, 297 a), Hammershaimb, Færøsk Anthologi, p. 131, stanzas 44, 45. Again in 'Ivar Erlingen og Riddarsonen,' Landstad, No 13, stanzas 22, 23, p. 161. Sigurd grows more in one month than other bairns in six in some Färöe versions of 'Regin Smith,' as Lyngbye, p. 58, stanzas 33, 34; the verses having, perhaps, been adopted from other ballads: see Hammershaimb, Sjúrðar kvæði, p. 6, note 2. This marvellous growth occurs in some popular tales, as 'Der Grindkopf (Italian), Köhler, in Jahrbuch fur rom. u. eng. Literatur, VIII, 253, Gonzenbach, Sicilianische Volksmärchen, I, 158, No 26.
P. 310 b, last paragraph, eleventh line. After Wunderhorn, etc., insert: 'Von der jungen Markgräfin,' Seckendorf's Musenalmanach für das Jahr 1808, p. 23.
'Bloody Lambkin,' communicated by Mr Macmath ea derived from his aunt, Miss Jane Webster, who learned it from her aunt, Minnie Spark, Kirkcudbrightshire.
P. 349 b. Add: Antonovitch and Dragomanof, Historical Songs of the Little-Russian People, Kief, 1874, I, 102, No 34; Chodzko, Les Chants historiques de l'Ukraine, p. 72. A Cossack writes to his father from prison, begging to be ransomed. 'How much?' asks the father. 'Eight oxen to every house, with their plows.' If he must give so much, the son will have to die. The son writes to his mother. 'How much do they ask?' 'Eight milch-cows, with their calves.' At that rate he will have to die. He writes to his love. 'How much must be paid?' 'Seven hundred ducks from each house.' She would rather part with all she has than let him die.
P. 398. This copy, J, which resembles D, was communicated by Mr Macmath as derived, September 13, 1886, from his aunt, Miss Jane Webster, who learned it above fifty years ago at Airds of Kells, Kirkcudbrightshire, from the singing of Samuel Galloway. "Barborough may be spelt Barburgh, Barbara, or even, perhaps, Barbary."
Dr Davidson has given me a stanza, derived from Aberdeenshire, which is close to G 10.
I, 67 a, line 15. Read Trundesøn.
279 b, note §, first citation. Read 312 for 292.
319, note [308], second line. Read later for Latin.
322, note [318], last line but one. Read baciata.
392 b, third line. O has dropt out of Oesterley.
392 b, third paragraph, second line. Read husband's sons are.
400 b, first line. Read şi.
400 b, sixth line from the bottom. Read Ćelakovský.
407 b, second paragraph, last line but one. Read abbot be cook.
486 a, CC, first line, and 504 a, 219 b, fifth line. Read Schlossar.
II, 10 b, second paragraph, last line. Read 97 for 47.
78 b, stanza 262. Read frae for from.
82 a, third stanza from the bottom, second verse. Read Orris.
85 a, first paragraph, last line. Read J 30 for F 30.
99 a, A 311, third line. Read 323 for 311.
133, D 41. Read Lord Ingram.
136 b, second paragraph, second line. Read III, 113-118.
137 b, third paragraph, second line. Read Barnard.
143, note[100]. Read Samlinger... Norske Magasin.
185 a, stanza 213. Drop the.
206 a, third paragraph (7), and 215 b, second paragraph, last line but four. Read Aravandinos.
215 b, second paragraph, last line but five. Read 89 for 29.
256, K 24. Read in o my arms.
326, stanza 82. Read O go please it.
352, stanza 202. Read No tho (No having been arbitrarily struck out).
It is intended to follow the spelling of sources or to note departures from it. The following undesigned variations from the spelling of the texts have been observed. Undoubtedly there are others. All that shall be detected will be registered, and literal conformity restored if the opportunity shall offer.
I, 145 b, 212. Read silver-shode.
II, 48 a, C 13. Read rottens.
78, 43. Read welcome.
78, 222. Read angring.
78, 242. Read bot.
91, D 243. Read ha an.
91, D 271-2. Read ye'el.
91, D 293. Read mether an.
107, D 152. Read spak.
108, E 24. Read die.
111, notes, E 13. Read labour.
190, F 134. Read Te.
207, B 31. Read whan. 43. Read lang.
209, D 44. Read fair. 54. Read aw.
248, D 18. Read Levingstone.
248, D 53, 71, 142. Read gowd.
326, 121, 171. Read nursy.
Page 20, Footnote [30]: added missing closing quote and comma ('Sir Patrick Spens', a piece of literary work of the last century,...)
Page 26, stanza 131 changed "moo" to "moon" ('I saw the new moon late yestreen,)
Page 43: changed comma to period (et estoit roy d'Angleterre.)
Page 75, stanza 111: deleted erroneous comma at beginning of line (An she gid by the first table,)
Page 96, heading to ballad version I: note that the balance of the date is missing in the original (learned from his aunt at Old Deer, about 185)
Page 147, ballad version C, stanza 14: added missing open quote ('Come doon, come doon, my pretty parrot,)
Page 164, ballad version F, stanza 4: added missing open quote ('O wha is that at my bower-door,)
Page 206: initial rough breathings before Greek capitals appear to have been interpreted as opening single quotes, and the printer has supplied matching close quotes. Both quotes and rough breathing are retained (... these also have: 'Ἡ Ευγενουλα,' 'Ὁ Χαρος και ἡ Κορη,' etc.)
Page 228: changed "be wailed" to "bewailed" (is bitterly bewailed by Sigrún.)
Page 228: changed closing single quote to double quote ("hon sörjer sin fästeman ur graf,")
Page 231, ballad version C, stanza 13: added missing open quote ('It is three hell-hounds, Marjorie,' he says,)
Page 240: corrected reference "42" to "41" (So the "Sleep you, wake you" of 41,...)
Page 240, Footnote [135]: changed "Madder" to "Madden" (As Sir Frederick Madden has observed,...)
Page 246, heading to ballad version C changed "Roxburge" to "Roxburghe" (d. Roxburghe Ballads, III, 340.)
Page 284, stanza 7: added missing close single quote (And bid Fair Eleanor come?')
Page 285, heading to ballad version B: deleted comma preceding semicolon (Motherwell's MS. p. 149;)
Page 294, ballad version E, stanza 13: suspect question mark may be a printer's error, but is retained (His lady, in her bigly bower?)
Page 295: corrected stanza reference from "4" to "14" (144. the door.)
Page 366, ballad version P, stanza 43: added missing close single quote ('We'll nip the baby in the cradle,')
Page 346, changed "Series" to "eries" (C. Notes and Queries, Sixth Series,...)
Page 405, note to ballad version B: changed "are" to italic (Quhat, ze, etc., are printed what, ye.)
Page 405, note on ballad version F stanza 16: italics extended to whole paragraph (16. Given thus in Kinloch's annotated copy... ... and that of Buchan:)
Page 406 changed "Islenzk" to "Íslenzk" ('Þiðriks kvæði konúngs,' Íslenzk fornkvæði, II, 218, No 57, st. 6;)
Page 436, stanza 553: changed "Ihon" to "Iohn" (Thy brother Iohn shall be a lord,)
Page 440: changed "p:" to "plate:" (201. siluer & plate: see 221.)
Page 485, stanza 312: added missing close single quote (This fault which you've committed;')
Page 494, Footnote [187]: changed "ould" to "would" (and would have followed No 40 had I known)
Page 513, under notes on Ballad 78: original footnote reference, using "double dagger" symbol, does not exist on page 236. The inference from context is that the reference should be to Footnote [134] which originally had "dagger" symbol (236 b.... and to note [134]., Jacobs, Anthologia Græca, II,...)
Page 515: changed "81" to "82" (326, stanza 82. _Read_ O go please it.)
Page 515, under To be Corrected in the Print for Volume II, no instance in the text could be found corresponding to the correction for Page 352, stanza 202.