INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE

Aaltrje, Ethel, Adeline, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 66.
Abortion sought by eating of rose, I, 341, 343 f., 354;
savin tree (abbey tree, deceivin tree), III, 387, 393, 396; IV, 510;
sycamore tree, IV, 511;
pile o the gravil, I, 350;
an herb, leaf from the tree, flower, I, 349, 352; III, 386; IV, 456.
Aboulcassem, tale of, I, 282.
Aboulfaouaris, tale of, II, 499.
Aboyne, Earl of, ballad, IV, 311 ff.; V, 270 f., 301.
Acta Sanctorum, I, 239, and n.; II, 510 a; III, 237 n., 241 f.
Adam Bell maintained to be an historical or mythical personage, III, 21 f.
Addison on Chevy Chace; his interest in traditional songs and tales, III, 305, and n., 306.
Adelheid, Dutch and German representative of Fair Annie, II, 66 f.
Adland, King, father of lady sought in marriage by King Estmere, II, 52 f.
Adler, II, 50-55;
king, 50, and Estmere his messenger;
brother of King Estmere, 51-55, and his nuncio.
Adrian and Ritheus, I, 13 n.
L’Adroite Princesse, imitation of Basile, III, 4, I, 269.
Adultery, noble lady accused of, vindicated by champion or by ordeal, II, 34-48, 510 b; III, 508 a.
Les Adventures d’Abdalla fils d’Hanif, etc., I, 392.
Adventures of the Cauzee (J. Scotts’s Arabian Nights), II, 43 n.
Æsop, Life of, I, 12, 13, and n.;
a clever fence of his, 13.
Af biskupi ok puka, Icelandic legend of Saint Andrew, I, 484 b.
Af Fru Olif ok Landres, Karlamagnus Saga, II, 40.
Af klerk ok gyðingum, legend, III, 240.
Afezzell, Histoire du devin, I, 489 a.
Agilulf, Decameron, III, 2, II, 137 a, 511 b.
Agolafre, V, 244 b.
Aiol et Mirabel, III, 508 a.
Air, importance of, for producing the proper effect of a ballad, II, 204 a.
Airlie, House of, plundered, ballad, IV, 54 ff.
Ajax, flower from his blood, I, 99.
Aladdin, story of, I, 323 n.; II, 127.
Alboazar, V, 4 f.
Alcon, the archer, III, 20.
Aldora, V, 4 f.
Alexander, romances of, III, 322 n.; V, 226 a, 297.
Alexander of Metz, poem and tale, I, 268, 459.
Alfonsus of Lincoln, III, 239.
Áli, IV, 502 b.
Allan Water, a tune, Allan Water, or, My love Annie’s very bonny, a song, Allan Water, or, a Lover in Captivity, a song, IV, 184.
Allen a Dale married to his true-love by Robin Hood in spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.
Alpthier, III, 498 a.
Álsól, transformed by step-mother, I, 306 f.
Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419.
Amadas et Ydoine, romance, III, 508.
Amadis of Gaul, I, 267, 308 (Amadis d’Astra); III, 508 b.
Amasis, tasks given to and by, propounds riddles, I, 13, and n.
Amis and Amiloun, Amis e Amiloun, II, 127, 511 b; III, 508 b.
Âmîs and the Bishop, in Pfaffe Âmîs, I, 406.
Ancrum Muir, Battle of, == Lilliard’s Edge, III, 306.
Andrius, the monk, I, 505 b.
L’Andromède et les démons, Lesbian tale, V, 294 a.
Annals of Burton, II, 236 f.;
of Waverley, II, 235;
of Winchester, II, 38 n.
Antonius Liberalis (Metamorphoses of Nicander), I, 84.
Anvár-i Suhailé, tale in, V, 14.
Apollodorus, I, 337, 338 n.
Apollonius of Tyana, I, 485 a.
Apollonius of Tyre, I, 1, 416; IV, 402 b; V, 245.
Apologie pour Hérodote, story in V, 122.
Appetite, monstrous and revolting, of bewitched women, I, 290, 298 f., 301.
Apple, gold, thrown into woman’s lap controls her will, I, 364.
Apple-tree, danger from fairies of sleeping under, I, 340, 350; IV, 455 f.
See I, 319 b, and Ympe Tree.
Apuleius, Metamorphoses, I, 84 f.
Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights, Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12 f., 269, 323 n., 402; II, 43 n., 127, 511 b; V, 13.
Ardai Viraf, Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 236, 506 f., 513 a.
Argyll. See under Family Names.
Arioald, II, 39.
Arm-ring, bribing to secrecy with, II, 51.
Arms, long arms seemingly regarded as a beauty, II, 168; IV, 415; V, 160 f., 164. (Cf. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, v. 9476, Tyrwhitt.)
Armstrong, John (Gilnockie), said to have molested no Scotsman, but to have levied tribute on the English from the border to Newcastle, III, 364;
makes King James great offers for his life, 365, 370;
appears to have been apprehended by unfair dealing, 365 f.;
hanged, with all his men, 365;
is invited by the king to visit him, and goes with eight score men gallantly attired, 368 f.;
the king thinks him a king, as well as he, 369 f.;
refused pardon, comes near to killing the king, but is finally slain, with all his company, 368 f.
Armstrong, William of Kinmouth (Kinmont Willie), made prisoner by the English in violation of truce, taken by force from Carlisle castle by Sir Walter Scott, laird of Buccleuch, III, 469-74;
his extraordinary and proverbial rapacity, 471.
Armstrongs, their strength, III, 363;
ravage both the English and the Scottish border, 364 a.
See under Family Names.
Arngosk, Lady of, ballad, IV, 241 ff.
Arrow, bearing, III, 29, 202, 341;
broad, III, 29, 160, 176, 199, 202, 341; IV, 505 f.;
letter sent on an arrow-head, III, 223 f., 231; V, 241 a;
arrow shot to determine place for grave, I, 185 (?); III, 106;
to show where a wife is to be sought, II, 499.
Arthour and Merlin, romance of, IV, 479 b.
Arthur, King, I, 257-67, 271-3, 283-91, 289-91, 293-6;
his custom of not dining until he had had or heard of an adventure, I, 257, 263; III, 51, and n.
So Robin Hood, III, 51.
Arthur a Bland, tanner of Nottingham, kinsman of Little John, III, 137;
the tune, 133, and n.
Arthur a Bradley, a ballad, III, 215, 217.
Arthur’s seat shall be my bed, song, IV, 105.
Artificial curiosities, wand with three singing living lavrocks sitting thereon, etc., I, 201 f., 205, 503; III, 501 b; IV, 450 b.
Artiga, V, 4 f.
Atamulc, story of, V, 13.
Athelbrus, steward of King Ailmar, and tutor of Horn and his comrades, I, 188 f.
Atherly. See John of Atherly.
Athulf, Horn’s faithful friend, I, 188, 190.
Les Aubrays, Lizandré, Breton knight, kills a Moor by receiving him on the point of his sword as the Moor leaps in the air, II, 378; III, 276.
Audam and Doorkhaunee, Afghan poem, I, 98.
Augur (wimble) bore, lady first seen, or courted, through
an, I, 202, B, 205, F, 206, H;
first and only sight, I, 255.
Auld Man == Devil, I, 18, I.
Auld Robin Gray, a play, V, 88.
Die Ausgleichung, I, 265.
Austerities vowed by actors in tragic stories, as tributes of grief, penances, etc., II, 156 f., 159, 162 f., 165 f., 175, 177, 179, 258, 318 f.; IV, 97, 360, 433; V, 223 a.
Austrríki, I, 460 n.
The Avowynge of King Arthur, metrical romance, I, 209.
Ayrer’s plays, V, 24 f., 97.
Baba-Yaga, I, 484 a.
Baffling malice with ready answers, I, 20-22, 485; III, 496; IV, 440.
Bahome, Bee Hom, II, 318 f.
Baillie Lunnain, Gaelic tale, I, 191 n.
Balcanqual, II, 337.
Balewise, bæliwis, I, 67 n.
Balfour, John, called Burly, IV, 106 f.
Bandello, Novelle, I, 269; II, 42; III, 258; V, 23 n.
Banier, Sir (==Sir Beduer, Bedewere?), I, 295.
La Barbe Bleue, I, 47.
Barberine, A. de Musset, I, 269.
Y Bardd Glas Keraint, II, 136, 511.
Der Bärenhäuter, tale, I, 198.
Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II, 244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.
Barnsdale, III, 50 f.
Barrel spiked, punishment of rolling or dragging in, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, 48.
Barton, Sir Andrew, maintained by the English to be a pirate, III, 335 f., 339, 345, 352; IV, 503;
his dangerous “beams,” III, 337, and n., 338, 340 f., 344 f., 349; IV, 504 f.;
his ship brass within and steel without, III, 340, 344, 349; IV, 504;
and magnificently ornamented, III, 340, 342;
boasts that he once salted thirty heads of the Portuguese, and sent them home to eat with bread, IV, 505;
300 crowns (500 angels) tied about his middle, when his body is thrown overboard, to secure burial, III, 342; IV, 506.
Basile, Il Pentamerone, I, 269, 461 n.; II, 127; V, 48.
Bastars de Bullion, Li, romance, V, 6.
Bathing for recovering human shape, I, 308, 338, and n.; II, 505; III, 505; V, 39 f.
The Battle of Harlaw, of Hara Law, a tune; The Battle of Hardlaw, a pibroch, III, 318. See Harlaw.
Beating of daughters, I, 192; II, 435; V, 237 a.
Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, I, 105; II, 199, 243, 457 n.; V, 201 f.;
The Spanish Curate, I, 239 n.;
Monsieur Thomas, II, 10, 243; III, 294, 331;
Bonduca, II, 243; V, 202;
The Pilgrim, II, 457;
The Two Noble Kinsmen, II, 506 b; V, 133, 202;
Philaster, III, 129.
Beauty and the Beast, La Belle et la Bête, tale, I, 308, 313 f.
Becket, Gilbert, romantic story of, I, 457 f.
Becket, Thomas, stands by his votaries, I, 505 a.
Beeldwit, I, 67.
Beggar (palmer), Hind Horn changes clothes with, I, 189, 191 f., 202-7;
Robin Hood, III, 178-82, 184;
Little John, III, 188;
Wallace, III, 271, 273;
other disguises as beggar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f.;
beggar who receives girl’s favors turns out to be a person of high degree, V, 109 ff., 116 ff., 305 a.
The Beggar and the Five Muffins, Eastern story, V, 281.
Beggar and Robin Hood, III, 156, 159;
beggar (beggars) and Little John, III, 188 f.
Beggar’s dress and equipment, II, 436 f. (61, 78).
Die beiden Fürsten, Turkish tale, I, 10.
Beket. See Becket.
Le Bel Inconnu, Libeaus Desconeus, I, 308; II, 51, 510 b.
Bele Ydoine, romance, IV, 482 a.
Belewitte, I, 67.
La Belle et la Bête, I, 308 n., 313 f.
Bellerophon’s sons and Sarpedon, III, 20.
Bells, numerous, on horses, I, 320 n.; V, 290 a;
on every lock of horse’s mane, I, 323; II, 189, 191, 344; IV, 410, 413;
mane and tail, II, 194;
twenty-four on horse’s mane, II, 183, 185;
hung at every corner of a ship, IV, 462 a;
bell sewed to every stitch of a cap for a (supposed) dead girl, III, 364; IV, 483;
bells ring of themselves, I, 173, 231; III, 235, 244, 519 f.;
bells rung backward as an alarm, III, 26;
girl sold for a new church-bell, I, 91 f.
Belly-blind. See Billie Blind.
Beloe’s Oriental Apologues, V, 97.
Benbow, Admiral, V, 147.
Benediction in church, merman’s (human) wife must not stay till, or expose herself to, I, 366;
nix flies from, ib., n.
Bengwill, Benwall, Brangwill, Lord, I, 62, 76, 78; II, 253.
Béowulf, I, 50, 54 n.; II, 56.
Der Berghüter und seine kluge Tochter, Transylvanian tale, I, 8.
Berkeley, Witch of, V, 298 a.
Bernabò Visconti and the Abbot, tale of Sacchetti, I, 406.
Bernard, Lord. See Barnard.
Bernard de Brusban, of the twelve peers, I, 278.
Bernardo del Carpio, III, 367.
Bertha im Wald, children’s game, I, 33 n.
Berthold von Neuhaus, I, 198.
Bertrand, Nicolas, I, 237 f.
Bessy Bell, nursery song, IV, 75;
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, ballad, 75 ff.
Der betrogene Betrüger, tale, I, 47.
Bewick and Graham, ballad, IV, 144 ff.
Bewsey, a poem, III, 329.
Bias extricates himself from tasks, I, 13, and n.
The Bible, I, 51 f., 245, 271, 282 n., 404, and n.; II, 14 n.
Bier half gold, half silver, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; V, 224;
with ae stamp o the melten goud, another o silver clear, IV, 471.
Bil-eygr, böl-eygr, appellatives of Odin, I, 67.
Billie (Bellie) Blind (Blin), I, 63, 67, 73, 86, 466 f.; II, 458, 464, 470, 472; IV, 494; V, 239.
Bilvís, bilwiz, I, 67; V, 285 b.
Binyan’s Bay, I, 24, 61 b.
Birds:
bird takes a message or carries a letter, II, 113 n., 356-60, 362 f., 365 f.; III, 4, 8; IV, 412, 482, 484 f.; V, 234;
bird (parrot, pyet, popinjay) comments on a murder it has witnessed, murderess tries in vain to entrap him, II, 144, 146-52, 154;
testifies to the murder, 153, 155;
warns maid of danger, I, 31-5, 37; II, 496 f.; IV, 441; V, 285;
warns lover of mishap, II, 206 n.;
warns mother that her son tarries long, III, 10;
(nightingale, lark) reveals maid’s death (being really the soul of the dead), I, 180, 181;
speaks to encourage Fair Ellen, I, 90, 92, 95; V, 221;
bird informs knight of wife’s infidelity, II, 260;
bribes or promises to birds for services, 1, 57-60; II, 144, 146 f., 149-52, 154, 359; IV, 389 f., 416;
partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8;
quail plays partridge’s part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II, 509 f.;
birds call out in human voice at seeing a living woman riding behind a dead man, V, 65;
lover in bird-shape (or coat), V, 39-42.
Birth arrested, I, 82-87, 489; III, 497. See Childbirth.
Bitte mette, Danish tale, I, 489 a.
Björner’s Kämpadater, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.
The Black Bull of Norroway, tale, V, 201.
Blak, the horse, I, 96.
Blind Harry’s Wallace, III, 109, 191, 265, 266.
Blind the Bad, Blindr inn bölvísi, I, 67, 95.
Blinde belien, I, 67.
Blindr inn bölvísi, I, 67, 95.
Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin (Jehan et Blonde), romance, I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.
Blood:
blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for leprosy, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, 285;
blood of Christians in Hebrew rites, III, 240-3; IV, 497 a;
blood, drinking to dissolve enchantment, I, 337, and n.;
blood, emission of, from dead body on being touched or approached by the murderer, II, 143, 146, 148, 153; IV, 468 a.
Blood stanched with a charm, II, 441, 445, 450.
Blood-relations refuse to ransom a captive woman, a woman about to be hanged; done by husband or lover, II, 346-9, 350-3; III, 516; IV, 481 f.; V, 231-4, 296;
the same story, with parts shifted, of a man ransomed by his mistress, II, 349 f.; III, 516; IV, 481; V, 233 f., 296;
Finnish and Esthonian versions, V, 231-3.
Blow thy horne, hunter, fragment of a song, I, 209; IV, 451.
Blue, fortunate in love matters, II, 182, 512 a;
symbolic of good faith, thy coat is blue, thou hast been true, III, 479 (6), 481 (6).
Bluebeard, La Barbe Bleue, I, 47, 49 n., 50 n., 54.
Boar, terrible, in romantic tales, I, 209-14; II, 500 a.
Bocca della verità, I, 270 n.
Boccaccio, Decamerone, I, 197 f., 457 n.; II, 128, 137, 156 n.; III, 258; V, 23 nn., 29, 30, and n., 31, and n., 32, and n., 33, 303 a.
Bodman, I, 198.
Boiling to death, in a caldron, molten lead, in oil, or throwing into boiling oil, II, 321 n., 327; IV, 480 a; V, 53, 56, 230, 281.
Böl-eygr, I, 67.
Bölverkr (Odin), I, 67.
Bölvís, I, 67. See Blindr.
Bone Florence of Rome, Le, romance, III, 235.
Bonny Lass o Livingston, song, IV, 232 n.
Books in church read without man’s tongue, III, 244.
Boon of being allowed to fight at odds rather than be judicially executed (cf. No 141) in South Slavic songs, IV, 497 a.
Boots pulled off half-way, to embarrass a gallant, II, 482; IV, 495 a.
Borde, Andrew, I, 237 n., 238.
Bore, Sir (==Sir Bors?), I, 293, 295.
Bosworth Field, a history in ballad verse, III, 307, 331 f., 354 n.
Bothwell, Earl, ballad, III, 399 ff.
Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, ballad on, IV, 108 ff.
Bow, bent before swimming, II, 114, 116 f., 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 257, 272, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398;
slacked to swim, II, 250;
slacked to run, II, 116 f.; IV, 229;
bent to leap wall, II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV, 229.
Bow shots:
six score paces, to cleave apple on boy’s head, III, 17, 29;
twenty score paces to split a rod, III, 29;
three score rood (330 yards), III, 93;
a hundred rod, III, 176;
fifteen score (300 yards), III, 201, 203;
(not to be taken seriously) a mile, or half a mile and more, and through an armed man at the end, III, 54;
two north-country miles and an inch, III, 215.
Bower, Scotichronicon, III, 41, 43, 96, 266, 282, and n., 292, and n., 305, 316, 476 nn.
The Boy and the Mantle, ballad, I, 257 ff., etc.;
story in Welsh, I, 265 nn.
Boy baffles carlin by ready answers, I, 21.
Brackleys, several, murdered, IV, 80-83, 522;
Baron of Brackley, ballad, 79 ff.
Brags, gabs, vows, I, 277 f., 281-3, 285; II, 502.
Brand and ring, choice given to maid, signifying the death of violator or marriage with him, II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.
Brand, Right-hitting, III, 43 n.; V, 297 a.
Brandimarte, in Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.
Brangwain, Isold’s maid, I, 67.
Bread. See Communion bread.
Bredbeddle, one of Arthur’s knights, I, 280.
Bremor, king of Spain, demands the hand of King Adland’s daughter, II, 52-4.
Bride accidentally but fatally wounded by bridegroom’s sword while he is bringing her home (Graf Friedrich), I, 142 f.;
bride assigned by dying man to his brother, I, 376, 378, and n.;
she will not give her troth to two brothers, I, 376, 378, and n.;
bride, wife, whose bridegroom, husband, has died is put off with false explanations, I, 376-9, 381, 383-87;
bride carried off by lover on the day she was to wed a rival, IV, 218, 230; V, 260 f.
Bridegroom caressing bride while taking her home killed by her brother, I, 142;
bridegroom killed on his way to fetch the bride, I, 386;
bridegroom drowned on the way to his wedding, IV, 179-183, 189 f.; V, 257;
lover drowned on his way to visit his mistress, IV, 185.
Brome, brome on hill, song, I, 390.
The broom blooms bonny and says it is fair, I, 450.
The Broom of Cowden Knowes, O the broome, the bonny bonny broome, tune, IV, 192, 208.
Brother’s consent to a sister’s marriage, importance of obtaining, I, 142;
brother whose consent has not been asked kills his sister as she is riding to or from the wedding, I, 145-50;
brother flogs to death unmarried sister who has had a child, II, 102.
Brown, Andrew, his services to James VI, III, 442-6.
Brown bride despised for her complexion, II, 182-97;
brown girl rejected for this reason, V, 167 f.
See also I, 120, 133 (M 10), 135 (1).
Brown Robin, II, 305 f., 368, 371, 418.
Bruce, David. See David Bruce.
Die Bruck zu Karidol, I, 267, and n.
Buccleuch, Sir Walter Scott of, rescue of Kinmont Willie, III, 469 ff. See under Family Names.
Bulat and Ivan, tsar’s son, Russian tale, V, 46.
Bunion Bay, I, 24, 57.
Burden, burden-stem, I, 7 n., 484 a; II, 204 n.
Burial, gold bound round bodies thrown into the water, to secure, II, 14; III, 342; IV, 502 b, 506 a; V, 245.
Buridan and the Queen of France, tale, IV, 502.
Burlow-beanie, a variety of Billy Blin (here a loathly fiend, with seven heads), I, 286 f.
Burnet, Burnett. See under Family Names.
Burning, penalty for incontinence (in Danish ballads, for incest), II, 41, 43 f., 46-8, 113-125; III, 508 b; V, 292 b.
Burns, Robert, author of Kellyburnbraes, V, 107;
his Hallowe’en, V, 286 a.
Butler, Sir John, his murder and the ballad thereon, III, 327 ff.
Buttons bursting, as a consequence of violent emotion, II, 186; IV, 101, 302;
waistcoat bursted, IV, 185;
stays, gown and all, IV, 320.
By Lands-dale, hey ho, song, III, 54.
Byliny, Russian popular epics, I, 200 (II, 499 f.); II, 15, and n., 502; III, 122, 501 b; IV, 463, 497 a, 499 a; V, 2;
Bulgarian, IV, 463.
Byron, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, III, 91; IV, 36.
Caberstaing, Guillems de, story of, V, 33.
Cæsarian operation, three and five wives die successively thereof, II, 309 f.;
six sisters (and the seventh doomed), 311-16, V, 227-9;
in the case of Queen Jane, III, 373-6; V, 245 f.;
in Danish ballad, I, 83.
Cæsarins Heisterbacensis, Dialogus Miraculorum, I, 197, 237.
Calaf, Prince, Persian story, I, 417.
Calender, tale of the Second, I, 402.
Campbell. See under Family Names.
Campbell, Bonny James, ballad, IV, 142.
La caña del riu de arenas, Catalan story, I, 125.
Cane (walking rod), ridiculously introduced. See the commonplace of mantle and cane (under Commonplaces); also, IV, 190, 421; V, 16 f.
Car, Ker, Captain, III, 424-7, 430-2.
Caradawc, I, 265; V, 289 a. See Carados.
Carados (Briebras, Brisié Bras), I, 258, 261 n., 263-5;
Caradawc Vreichvras, 265;
variations of the name Carados, I, 264 n.; V, 289 a.
Carduino (Le Bel Inconnu), Italian romance, I, 308.
Carevič i ego Sluga, The Prince and his Servant, Russian tale, V, 281.
Carl Blind, surnamed Bavís, I, 67, 95.
Carl Hood, old, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.
Carl of Carlile, rhymed tale, I, 290 n., 301 n., 316; V, 289 a.
Caskets, riddle of the three, I, 13.
Cassilis. See under Family Names.
Catharine I., Empress of Russia, III, 383.
Cawfield, Archie of, ballad, III, 484 ff.
Ce qui plaît aux Dames, Voltaire’s tale, I, 292.
The Ceabharnach, West Highland tale, III, 507.
Le Centi Novelle Antiche, V, 34.
Chains of gold, servants in waiting wear, I, 410.
Chambers, Robert, his contention that Lady Wardlaw was the author of Sir Patrick Spens and other ballads, II, 20 n.
Champion, diminutive, successful against huge and dangerous antagonist in judicial combat, II, 35-37, 37 n., 38, 39?, 43 n., 45 f. See Child-champion.
Change of clothes with beggar, palmer, I, 189, 191, 192, 202-207; III, 157, 179, 181 f., 184, 188, 271, 273 f.
Change of parts of man and woman in different versions of the same or a similar tale, I, 142, 187, 455, Nos 17, 53; 298; II, 236, 349, 426; IV, 186; V, 34, 296.
Charcoal-burners, III, 109; V, 6, 70 f., 75, and n.
Charlemagne’s Journey to Jerusalem, I, 274-9; III, 503 b.
Charles the Fifth (emperor) and a broom-maker; and a peasant; Belgian stories, V, 74.
Charles the Great and the charcoal-burner, rhymed tale, V, 70 f.
Charm:
knight obliges lady to go off with him by sticking a charm in her sleeve, I, 57;
charm or rune employed to induce sleep, I, 28, 48, 55, 391.
Charrois de Nymes, Li, chanson de geste, V, 298 a.
Charter of peace sought by outlaws, III, 27.
Chastity, or fidelity in love, tests of, I, 258-71, 507 a; II, 502; III, 503; IV, 454 a; V, 212 f., 289 a.
Arch, sword and garland in Amadis which test the fact and the measure of faithful love, I, 267.
(Talking) bed, blankets, pillows, rug, sheets, I, 64 f., 68, 70.
Bridge in the younger Titurel which cannot be passed by knight or lady faulty in matter of love, I, 267.
Brook which tests virginity, I, 269.
Chair, golden, in which none but a maid will sit till bidden, I, 72 f.;
can sit, 75.
Crown that exposes the infidelity of husbands, I, 266 f.
Cup from which no man or woman can drink who has been false to love, I, 264.
Cup of tears in Palmerin of England which tests the best knight and most faithful lover, I, 267.
Flowers (lotus, rose) or evergreen which keep fresh as long as wife or man and wife are faithful, I, 268.
Glove as test of virtue of man or woman, I, 266.
Harp which plays out of tune and breaks a string on the approach of a girl who has lost her maidenhead, I, 269.
Horn, or drinking-cup, probation of wife’s chastity by husband’s drinking from, I, 262-265, 273;
by wife’s, 264.
Jacinth will not be worn on the finger of an adulterer, V, 289 a.
Knife, cuckold’s knife cannot carve a boar’s head, I, 273.
Mantle, probation of wife’s fidelity by, I, 260-2, 265; V, 289 a;
this mantle preserved in some religious house or at Dover, I, 261 n.;
Karodes’s mantle which would fit no woman who was not willing that her husband should know both her act and her thought, I, 261.
Mirror which indicates the state of a woman’s fidelity, I, 269.
Nightingales, I, 64 f.
Olive refuses to grow, V, 289 a.
Picture (wax image) which by its color indicates the state of a wife’s fidelity, I, 269.
Ring which by its color indicates the condition of a woman’s fidelity, I, 269.
Robe which will fit only the pure woman, I, 262.
St. Wilfred’s needle, in Ripon Minster, V, 212 f.
Shirt (mantle) will not soil, spot, etc., as long as husband and wife, or wife, keeps faithful, I, 268.
Statue which shows whether a young woman is a maid, I, 269 f.
Stepping stone at bed-side, if stepped on, reveals unchastity, I, 66.
Stone, Aptor, red to the sight of clean man or woman, I, 269.
Stone which cannot be approached by one who is not as clean as when born, I, 269 n.
Sword, given by husband to wife, will not spot as long as he is faithful, I, 268.
Valley from which no false lover could escape till it had been entered by a lover perfect in all points as such, I, 267.
Clean maid can blow out a candle with one puff and light it with another, make a ball of water, or carry water in a sieve, I, 270.
Egyptian test (Herodotus), I, 271; V, 212 f.
Ordeals for chastity in Greek romances, brazier, cave, Stygian water, statue of Diana, I, 270.
Test of chastity of women in Numbers and Apocryphal gospels, I, 271.
Le Chat Botté, tale, I, 461 n.
Le Châtelain de Couci et la Dame de Faiel, romance, V, 33.
Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s Tale, I, 291 f.; II, 458;
Squire’s Tale, II, 51;
Prioress’s Tale, III, 239;
Clerk’s Tale, IV, 93 n.;
Sir Thopas, V, 287 b;
House of Fame, II, 136.
Cheese of Fyvie as a love potion, V, 305 b.
Chera, V, 13.
La Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche, I, 239, and n.
Du Chevalier à la corbeille, fabliau, V, 121.
Le Chevalier au Cygne, romance, III, 515 b.
Le Chevalier à l’Espée, fabliau, III, 508 a.
Li Chevaliers as Deus Espees, romance, III, 505.
Du Chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, fabliau, III, 258.
Du Chevalier qui coit la masse, et Notre-Dame estoit pour lui au tournoiement, fabliau, III, 96 n.
Cheviot, Hunting of the, ballad, III, 303 ff.
Child, children, living, buried with dead mother, I, 180, 185; IV, 450 a (No 15);
child, young or unborn, speaks miraculously, to save life, vindicate the innocent, or to threaten revenge, III, 367, and nn.; IV, 507 a; V, 298 a.
Child Rowland and Burd Ellen, tale, I, 322; V, 201.
The Child of Wane, boy who protects school-girls from the assaults of his fellows, I, 308 n.
Childbirth, man’s help rejected and presence forbidden at, I, 179, 181-3, 245 f., 502 a; II, 98, 106 f., 414, 418, 422, 499; IV, 450 a, 464; V, 236;
pains of woman in childbirth repeated in the person of the man, II, 109; V, 292;
roddins (mountain-ash berries), juniper, desired by a woman at the point of childbirth, II, 408 f., 414;
first child, all the seven sisters of a family to die thereof, and six have so died, II, 311-16;
woman who has just borne a child to a lover, forced to marry another man, dances with her lover, and falls dead, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;
knots in woman’s clothes, or knots in the house, to be untied at childbirth, I, 85;
all locks to be shot during, II, 498;
mortal midwives and nurses desired by fairies, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b, 290 b;
woman gives birth to child (children) in stable, among the great horse feet, II, 85, 87, 89, 91 f., 94 f., 97-9; V, 221;
top of tree as place for labor, II, 109.
Childbirth obstructed by spells, I, 82-7; V, 285 b;
seven, nine days, three, seven, eight, twenty years, I, 82-85;
by the Fates and Ilithyia sitting down and folding their hands, by Lucina’s crossing knees and clasping hands over them, 84;
by throwing an enchanted pitcher into a draw-well, driving a nail into the roof-beam, placing folded hands between the knees, 85;
spells broken by persuading the operator that birth has taken place, I, 82-87.
See, further, I, 489; III, 497.
Child-champions, marvellous valor of, II, 37, 43 n., 45 f.; V, 292 a;
in Slavic tales, IV, 463;
cf. Growth, marvellous, etc.;
child (or dwarf) fights with huge or otherwise formidable adversary, II, 35-37, 43 n., 46.
Children born seven, eight, twenty years old (in consequence of obstructed parturition), I, 83-85.
Children of unwedded mother who has died in giving them birth buried alive with her by the father, I, 180.
Children’s game, ballads that have become, I, 33; II, 346.
Choice of sword or ring given maid, to stick him wi the brand or wed him wi the ring, II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.
Chrétien de Troyes, Cligés, III, 517 b; V, 2, 6;
Erec, III, 507 a;
Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n., 269; II, 51, 502 b, 510 b; III, 503 b, 508 a; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b.
Christian IV of Denmark and a countryman, Danish tale, V, 74.
Chronicles cited as authority in ballads, III, 297, 333, 360.
Claverhouse, IV, 105-107, 109 f.;
accused of procuring Monmouth’s execution, 109 f.
Clergy accused of adultery with noble ladies, II, 34-36, 38.
The Clever Lass, Clever Wench, or Wise Daughter, I, 1, 8-13;
answers king’s puzzles, performs or offsets his tasks, 9;
answers questions or performs supposed impossibilities and is married for it, 9-11;
solves difficult questions and is elevated by king to the rank of his sister, 12.
See I, 409 n., 410 n., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a; V, 284.
Clifton, assumed name (ineptly) for Scathlock, III, 201, 204.
Clitophon and Leucippe of Achilles Tatius, I, 270.
Clorinda, queen of the shepherds, espoused by Robin Hood, III, 217.
Clothes kilted (cut) a little above (below) the knee, hair braided (snooded, cut) a little above the brow, I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457.
Clyde Water, I, 389; II, 32, 88 f., 92, 94, 97, 144-7, 151-5, 461; IV, 188-90, 203; V, 208, 227, 237, 257.
Coach and three, I, 476 f.
Cober, Cabinet-prediger, I, 408.
Cock (capon) crows Christus natus est! I, 240-2, 505 f.; II, 501 b; IV, 451 f.;
miracle of the roasted cock reanimated, I, 233-242, 505; II, 8, 501 b; III, 502 f.; IV, 451 f.; V, 212 a, 288 a;
originally a feature in a legend of Judas, I, 239 f.
Cock, unfaithful or remiss, IV, 389 f., 416.
Cocks (crowing in the night), three, white, red, black, II, 228; V, 294 a;
two, red, grey, II, 229, 239;
milk-white, grey, II, 233; IV, 474;
white, red, III, 514.
Cognizances, parties in The Rose of England (a ballad of Henry VII’s winning the crown) mostly indicated by, III, 331.
Cokwolds Daunce, English comic tale, I, 264.
Commonplaces (recurrent passages):—
When bells were rung and mass was sung,

And a’ men bound to bed, I, 68, 70, 73; II, 70, 73, 75 f., 79, 88, 90, 129 f., 132, 191, 300, 370, 470, 472; III, 244-7, 254; IV, 44 f., 237 f., 240, 283, 327, 432, 470; V, 171, 224, 239.
Lord William was buried in St. Mary’s Kirk,

Lady Margret in Mary’s quire;

Out o the lady’s grave grew a bonny red rose,

And out o the knight’s a briar.

And they twa met, and they twa plat,

And fain they wad be near, etc., I, 101 f., 492; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 207 f., 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f.; III, 515; IV, 465; V, 224, 226, 262.
Where will I get a bonnie boy,

Will win gold to his fee?

O here am I, etc., II, 114, 116-19, 121, 123 f., 129, 131, 177, 186, 188, 190, 194, 212, 284-7, 311, 313, 316, 379, 394 f.; IV, 229, 235, 398, 466 f., 486, 488; V, 227.
O whan he came to broken briggs

He bent his bow and swam,

An whan he came to the green grass growin

He slackd his shoone (set down his feet) and ran, II, 114 f., 117, 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 247 f., 250, 253, 257, 272, 287, 311, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398, 466 f., 477; V, 228, 262.
O whan he came to Lord William’s gates,

He baed na to chap or ca,

But set his bent bow till his breast,

An lightly lap the wa;

An, or the porter was at the gate,

The boy was i the ha, II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV, 477; V, 228.
O is my biggins broken, boy?

Or is my towers won?

Or is my lady lighter yet

Of a dear daughter or son?

Your biggin is na broken, sir, but—, II, 115-19, 122 f., 131 f., 212, 248, 250, 253-5, 257; IV, 467, 477.
O saddle me the black, the black,

Or saddle me the brown:

O saddle me the swiftest steed

That ever rade frae a town, II, 115-18, 120-13, 212, 216-18, 254, 312 f.; IV, 234, 236, 467, 477; V, 228, 262.
O where is a’ my merry young men

Whom I gie meat and fee? I, 368 f., 396; II, 114, 123, 266-8, 403; III, 10; V, 35, 37, 292.
O is your saddle set awrye?

Or rides your steed for you owre high? (saddle, bridle, stirrups, or something, not comfortable for maid who is riding), I, 66, and n., 68, 70, 72, 75-7, 79 f., 146, 179; IV, 450 a.
The first line that Sir Patrick red,

A loud lauch lauched he;

The next line that Sir Patrick red,

The teir blinded his ee, II, 18 n., 20 f., 26 f., 29 f., 381 f., 385, 387, 389 f., 392 f., 395; IV, 117-121, 351-4, 413, 483, 486.
Gown narrow that was wont to be wide; coats short that were wont to be side, etc., II, 85, 122, 399, 401, 406 f., 409, 413; V, 36, 236.
I’m oer laigh to be your bride,

And I winna be your whore, II, 181, 188; IV, 323, 325, 327, 330-32; V, 272.
Janet has kilted her green kirtle

A little aboon her knee, etc., I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457; V, 202 a.
(Pretence that a maid is trespassing in a wood.)

She had na pu’d a double rose,

A rose but only twa,

Till up there started young Tam Lin,

Says, Lady, thou’s pu nae mae, I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, and n., 367, 369, 450-53; III, 504; IV, 456 f.
He took her by the milk-white hand,

And by the grass-green sleeve, etc., I, 346, 349, 357 b, 387, 452 f.; II, 465, 468, 475; IV, 193, 195-200, 203, 205 f., 456; V, 239. Cf. IV, 219-22, 225-7, 229.
O syne ye’ve got your will of me,

Your will o me ye’ve taen,

‘T is all I ask of you, kind sir,

Is to tell me your name.

Sometimes they call me Jack, he said, etc., I, 346, 444, 446, 450 f.; II, 458, and n., 459 f., 462, 465, 468, 471, 473-5, 478 f.; IV, 196, 200; V, 153-6, 237, 239.
(Dower despised.)

I’m seeking nane o your gold, he says,

Nor of your silver clear,

I only seek your daughter fair, etc., II, 380, 382 f., 385 f., 388, 390 f., 393 f., 396, 400 f., 403-5; IV, 381 f., 399, 413 f., 487; V, 184, 276.
Lord Wayets lay over his castle-wa,

Beheld baith dale and down,

And he beheld, etc., I, 183; II, 131, 175, 257, 343 f.; IV, 235, 279, 403 f., 408, 433; V, 277 f.
Hold your tongue, my daughter dear,

And ye’ll lat a’ your mourning be;

I’ll wed you to a higher match, etc., II, 163, 166; IV, 96-103, 166-72, 174 f., 277, 279.
If this be true, a reward; if a lie, hanging, II, 244 f., 247-9, 251, 253-5, 257; III, 299; cf. II, 114.
Ffor because thou minged not Christ before,

Thee lesse me dreadeth thee, II, 59, 62; III, 422.
Sheet (sark, smock) for the dead, one half cambric, the other needlework (beaten gold and needlework; silk and cambric), bier one half gold, the other silver, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471 (IV, 485, bier lacking; V, 224, sheet or sark lacking).
Horse: Wi siller he is shod before,

Wi burning gowd behind, I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224.
The day ye deal at Annie’s burial

The bread but and the wine;

Before the morn at twall o’clock

They’ll deal the same at mine, II, 190 f., 193, 195, 201, 203, 208, 211 f., 217, 219, 295; IV, 236, 465, 471; V, 224, 262.
It’s kiss will I yer cheek, Annie

And kiss will I your chin, etc., II, 191, 212, 217, 219, 221 f., 269, 273; IV, 236 f., 474.
She’s put it to her fause, fause cheek,

But an her fause, fause chin,

She’s put it to her fause, fause lips,

But never a drap went in.

He’s put it to his bonny cheek, etc., II, 284 f., 287; IV, 235, 427 f., 431.
The firstin kirk (town) that they came till

They gard the bells be rung,

At the nexten kirk that they came till

They gard the mass be sung, II, 358, 350 f., 367, 380, 385, 388 f., 391 f., 396, 469; IV, 487 f., 490.
Johnny Barbary used to be the first,

But now the last came he, II, 401, 403, 460 f., 463, 466, 469, 471, 473-6; IV, 491; V, 238.
She’s taen her mantle her about,

Her cane (pike-staff, rod) intill her hand, II, 223; III, 245, 248, 505; IV, 408 (6); of man, II, 370; IV, 408 (14). (Corrupted, also, III, 250, 252.)
She’s taen her mantle her about,

Her coffer by the band, I, 350; III, 244; IV, 385. Cf. IV, 456.
She’s taen her petticoat (petticoats) by the band,

Her mantle owre her arm, I, 348, 349 (bis); II, 475.
The knight he knacked (wrung) his white fingers,

The lady tore her hair, II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9.
Will ye gae to the cards or dice, etc., II, 109, 154, 164, 409; IV, 391, 415.
(Wedding procession.)

Wi four-and-twenty buirdlie men

Atween ye and the wun,

And four-and-twenty bonnie mays

Atween ye and the sun.

Four-and-twenty milk-white geese,

Stretching their wings sae wide,

Blawing the dust aff the high-way,

That Mild Mary may ride, II, 315. See II, 132, 183, 195 a; IV, 470.
I’ll gae in at your gown-sleeve,

And out at your gown-hem, I, 508; II, 366.
Man and woman riding, no word spoken by either (or by one of them) for a long distance, I, 41-44; III, 497 b; V, 207 a, 285 a (in French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic; not English).
Communion-bread called “God,” etc., III, 103 n.; V, 240, 299, 359 (under mood).
The Complaynt of Scotland, I, 336, 390; II, 51 n., 296; III, 292, 303, 317, 362 f.; V, 202.
Compulsory marriage, woman carried off, III, 329; IV, 232-54, 308-10; V, 168 f., 261-264.
Confession, wife’s, heard by husband disguised, III, 258-64.
The Constant but Unhappy Lovers, chap-book, V, 33.
Constantine, Emperor, his leprosy miraculously cured, V, 285.
Conte du Graal, Gautier’s, ugly lady in, V, 289 b. See also Chrétien.
Contes à rire, I, 268 n., 408;
Nouveaux Contes à rire, I, 408.
Conversion, remarkably sudden, of Jean Livingston, IV, 29 f.
Copland, John of, takes David Bruce prisoner at Durham, III, 286.
Corgarf Castle, III, 427, 434.
Cork-heeled shoon, II, 20, 22 f., 27, 29 f., 88; III, 393.
Corsabrin, King of Mont Oscur, V, 6.
Cort Mantel, fabliau, I, 257, 266.
Costumes enclosed in nut-shells or small bags, I, 260, and n.
The Cotter’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.
The Countess of Northumberland (Rising in the North), III, 403-5, 410, 417.
La Coupe Enchantée, La Fontaine, I, 265.
Craddocke, I, 264 n., 272 f.; V, 289 a (Welsh Caradawc).
Crawford, Earl, ballad, IV, 276 ff.
Crecrynbroghe Castle, III, 430.
Créqui, Sire de, I, 459.
Crescentia, II, 181.
Crichton. See under Family Names.
Cries, three (four), maid about to be murdered asks and is allowed, I, 32-37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, 207.
Cromlet’s Lilt, reply to, II, 317 n.
Cromwell, Thomas Lord, ballad, III, 377.
Diu Crône of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 264, 266, 279 a.
Cross burned or cut into the flesh, II, 240, 242, 513 a; III, 514; IV, 476; V, 225 b.
The Cruel Mother, German variations of (Die Rabenmutter, Kindesmörderin, u.s.w.), I, 219 f., 504 a; II, 500 a; III, 502 b; IV, 451 a; V, 212 a, 287 b;
Slavic, Magyar, Croat, variations, I, 220, 504 a; III, 502 b; V, 287 f.
The Cruel Mother, story of, blended with that of Magdalen and Samaritan women, I, 230;
with that of the Samaritan woman simply, ib.
Cuchulinn, Cuculin, IV, 463 b, 479 b.
Culpepper, affair of the Earl of Devonshire with, IV, 111.
Cunigund, name of Gunhild, wife of the Emperor Henry III, after her marriage, II, 38.
Cunigund, St., wife of the Emperor St. Henry II, her ordeal, II, 38.
Cunningham, Allan, his handling of Scottish ballads, I, 62 119 n., 142, 227, 436; II, 260, 302 f.; III, 265, 381; IV, 9, 80; V, 107; etc.
Curse, mother’s, I, 386; IV, 181, 186-9; V, 257, 301 a.
Cursor Mundi, I, 240, 505; II, 2, 7 nn.
Curtal Friar and curtal dogs, III, 121, 124 f.
Dactyliomancy, III, 411, and n.; V, 299 b.
Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, III, 505 f. See Mittagsfrau and Noon-sprite.
Dame Ragnell, I, 290.
Damiani, Pietro, I, 237 n.
La damoisele hydeuse in Chrétien’s Perceval, II, 502 b; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b.
Damsel who prizes herself too highly marries and has a litter of nine pups, a pig, and a boy, I, 210.
Dance, probation by, of young woman suspected of having had a child; she dies in consequence; she dances with all the men of the court, tires out successively all the courtiers, the king and the queen; dances seven hours without breaking down, II, 102 (dance ordered, but deprecated, 103);
jealous or offended lover makes his mistress dance till her boots are full of blood, II, 103;
young woman who has just borne a child, married against her will, dances with her lover after the wedding and dies of the exertion, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;
girl tires out fifteen partners (in Danish ballads), IV, 214;
lass of Anglesey, dancing on king’s party against English lords, tires out fifteen of them, 215.
Daniel von Blühenthal, I, 257 n.
Dansekar, the pirate, V, 143.
Dark complexions in women, not in favor, I, 120, 133, M, (10), 135 (1); II, 182-97; V, 167 f.
Darnley, Lord (Henry Stuart), III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401, 442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;
murder of, in revenge for his complicity in the murder of Rizzio, III, 399, 401;
hanged on a tree, 401, 444.
Dasakumaracharitam, I, 14.
The Daughter of King Under-waves, Scottish-Gaelic tale (Nighean Righ fo Thuinn), I, 297.
Davenant, Sir William, The Wits, II, 243.
David, King of Judah, gives hard questions to his sons to determine his successor; answered by Solomon, I, 13 n.
David Bruce, King of Scotland, can brook no opposition and kills his own squire for warning him of the danger of invading England; distributes portions of English territory among his chief men, before the battle of Durham, III, 284 f.;
is taken prisoner by John of Copland, 286;
meets King John of France, also a captive, in London, 287.
De simplicitate viri et uxoris, tale of Sercambi, V, 97.
The Dead.
Dead body compromises the safety of a ship, I, 245 n.
Dead body lying in a river, expedients for discovering, II, 143, 145, 147 f., 151, 155.
Dead body may be caused to speak by setting door ajar or half open, II, 281, 282 (15) (Scott. Nothing said of the door being ajar in B, p. 283, or in the original of A, IV, 478).
Dead brother admonishes his sister for her pride of dress, I, 428, 430 f.
Carlin’s three sons come back from Paradise with hats of birch, II, 238 f.
Dead corpse of boy makes appointment to meet mother, III, 244 f., 247; V, 241.
The dead, love tokens asked back by; gifts returned by, II, 228.
Grief for the dead detrimental to their comfort and peace, II, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513; V, 294;
resentment for the disturbance occasioned by, V, 62;
tears for dead lover fill his coffin with blood; cheerfulness causes his grave to be hung with rose-leaves, II, 228.
Kiss from the dead fatal, I, 439; II, 229-32, 236 f.; III, 512 f.; IV, 474 f.;
bramble-leaf comes between the lips of maid and lover, and her life saved, IV, 474.
Maid demands answers of her dead lover to questions concerning state of the dead as condition of returning his troth, II, 231-3.
Dead man coming on horseback to his mistress (wife, sister) and taking her with him, V, 60;
tales, 60-3, 303;
ballads, 63-67, 303.
Dead mother revisits her daughter, and would have torn her to pieces, V, 303 b.
Dead mistress admonishes her lover, I, 426.
Troth asked for and returned by maid to dead lover, or resumed by her, II, 227, 229-33.
Father asks return of troth from his son, II, 512 b.
Dead lover (like the Devil, Elfin Knight) sets maid tasks and would have taken her with him if she had not ‘answered well,’ baffled him by requiring preliminary counter-tasks, IV, 439 f.
Death feigned by maid (who takes a draught which produces insensibility) in order to get to her lover, II, 355 f., 358-67; III, 517; IV, 482-6; V, 234 a;
save her honor, avoid becoming a king’s mistress, avoid marrying a Turk, avoid a disagreeable suitor, or to move a lover, II, 356; III, 517; IV, 482 b; V, 234 a, 296 b;
painful or disagreeable tests of her sensibility, II, 359, 361, 364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, 296 b.
Death feigned by wife to escape to lover, or apparent death operated by sleeping draughts administered by lover (woman is in some cases buried, disinterred and carried off), V, 3 f., 6, 280;
tests of sensibility applied, V, 3, 6.
Death feigned by lover in order to possess himself of maid when she comes to his wake, or his funeral, I, 247-53, 506 f.; II, 502 a; III, 503 a; IV, 453; V, 212, 289 a. (The maid in a convent in some cases, and the body introduced into the cloister; nuns think it an angel that has taken maid off, and they wish the like for themselves, I, 248 f.)
Death of bridegroom, husband, concealed from bride, wife, by evasions, I, 376-9, 381, 383-7.
The Death of Keeldar, ballad by Sir W. Scott, IV, 25.
The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, III, 129, 519.
Death-naming. See Naming.
The Debateable Land, III, 363 n., 473.
Dee, Water of, II, 283, 468; III, 360, 457; IV, 52 f., 103.
Delamere, Lord, ballad, IV, 110 ff.
Deloney’s Pleasant History of John Winchcomb (Jacke of Newburie), I, 111, 113.
Demaundes Joyous, I, 13 n.
Demoniac character of the murderous knight in No 4, I, 49 f.
Derby, Earl of, incurs the anger of Henry VIII because Lancashire and Cheshire are maliciously represented by the Earl of Surrey to have failed to do their duty at Flodden, III, 355-7;
the next day a letter from the queen gives all the credit of the victory to Lancashire and Cheshire and the Earl of Derby, and the Stanleys are in high favor, III, 359.
Derwentwater, ballad by Allan Cunningham, IV, 116.
Derwentwater, Lord, ballad, IV, 115 ff.
Derwentwater’s Lights, IV, 117.
Les deux Fiancés, tale of French Brittany, V, 64.
Devil appears to counsel and take part in a murder, IV, 31.
Devil gives riddles, I, 4 f., C, D, and tasks, 14;
(represented imposes tasks and is baffled by the maid, 18 f., I;
the devil express, V, 283;
seeks to nonplus boy, I, 22, 485 b.
Devil takes lover to hell and shows him his mistress in torment, Breton ballad, I, 426.
Devil would be a maid’s leman, V, 283.
Devonshire, Earl of, fights with a French or Dutch lord in defence of Lord Delamere, IV, 111-115.
Diarmaid allows a hideous woman to come near his fire and under his blanket, she is transformed into the most beautiful creature in the world, Gaelic tale, I, 298;
cf. Irish story, V, 289 b.
Diarmaid and Grainne, West Highland Gaelic tale, I, 8.
Diarmaid and the Magic Boar, West Highland tale, II, 500.
Diarmaid’s wife tries the robe which is a test of chastity, Gaelic ballad, I, 261 f.; V, 289.
Dicing for prisoners, III, 378 f.
Diderik, King, and Gunild, II, 36.
Dietrichs Flucht, IV, 463 b.
Dietrichsaga, I, 49.
Dieu vous saue, Dame Emme, song or ballad, II, 38 n.
Disenchantment effected by drinking of blood, or by drawing blood from the bewitched, I, 178, 337, and n.;
by kisses given (or received from) a disgusting or terrible creature, or by touching the same, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b, 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290 a;
not completed without, often operated by, immersion in milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342, 344; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, 39 f.;
other processes or conditions, I, 313, 315; V, 215.
Disenchantment of hideous woman effected by obtaining absolute sovereignty over a man’s will, I, 290-2, 295 f., 299;
by finding a man who would accept his life at her hands, kiss her, and share her bed, 293;
by being admitted to a king’s or hero’s bed, 297 f.; V, 289 b;
by getting king’s brother for husband, I, 507 a;
disenchantment of seemingly ugly old man effected by gaining the love of a beautiful girl, V, 213 a;
of linden-worm, snake, by being admitted to maid’s bed, I, 298; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a (cf. V, 289 b);
of crocodile by girl’s licking his face, V, 215 b.
Disguises of outlaws, Fulk Fitz-Warine, Hereward, Eustace, Wallace, Robin Hood, III, 109 f., 117 f., 178-82, 184, 191, 271, 273 f.;
other disguises, as beggar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f.;
as charcoal man, V, 6.
Dish made from ashes and bones of murdered man denounces the murderers, I, 126.
Dissawar, Disaware, name borne by Prince Roswall and the Lord of Lorn after exchanging positions with the steward, V, 44, 49, 55.
Dobrynya, Russian epic hero, V, 295 a.
Dodhead, the, IV, 5 f., 518 b; V, 249-51.
Dog who could indicate pregnant women, adulterers, etc., I, 270 n.
Dole-day, II, 436.
Dolopathos, Latin (and French) romance, I, 392.
Don Bueso, Catalan representative of Young Beichan, I, 462.
Don John of Austria meets the Earl of Westmoreland on the sea, takes him to Seville and recommends him to the queen, III, 420 f.
Doon l’Alemanz, chanson de geste, II, 40.
Doors and windows thrown on a combatant to take him prisoner, III, 24.
Douglas. See under Family Names.
Douglas, Northumberland betrayed by, ballad, III, 408 ff.
Douglas, tragedy by Home, II, 263, and n., 264.
Douglas, Gavin, Palice of Honour, II, 136, V, 69 n.
Douglas, James, Earl, in the Scottish Otterburn alleged to have been stabbed before the battle by one of his own men, or a boy whom he had offended, III, 294, 299; V, 244;
in another version, to have gone into battle without his helmet, III, 300;
challenges Percy to single combat in The Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 308;
dreams that a dead man wins a fight and thinks that man is he, III, 300, IV, 501.
Douglas, Jamie, ballad, IV, 90 ff.
Douglas, Lady, of Lochleven, tries to protect the Earl of Northumberland from the treachery of William Douglas, III, 411-3;
shows his chamberlain his English enemies waiting for him 150 miles off through the hollow of her ring, 412.
Douglas, William, Earl of Angus, his encounter with the English at Piperden, III, 305.
Douglas, William, knight of Liddesdale, III, 282 f., 284 f., 288.
Douglas, William, of Lochleven, III, 409, 411-14, 443 f., 446.
Douns Lioð, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.
D’Ouville, L’Élite des Contes du Sieur, I, 408; V, 96.
The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by A. Munday, III, 46, 122, 129, 130 n., 179, 218, 220, 227, 519 b; V, 100.
Dramatic representation of ballads by young people, I, 249; IV, 439 b; V, 90.
Dreams:
of bower full of red swine and bride-bed full of blood, II, 200;
room fu o red swine and bride’s bed daubd wi blude, II, 292;
chamber full of swine and bed full of blood, IV, 426;
bowr lin’d with white swine and brid-chamber full of blood, II, 202, B, 11;
chamber full of wild men’s wine and bride-bed stood in blood, II, 202, C, 4;
bower full of milk-white swans and bride’s bed full of blood, IV, 433;
of pulling green heather, IV, 164, 167-9, 171-5, 180 (heather bell), 522; V, 255;
green birk, IV, 176;
apples green, IV, 523;
other dreams, II, 33 n., 41, 45, 205;
to dream of blood bodes ill, II, 292 f.;
to dream of ravens is the loss of a near friend, II, 293.
Die drei Brüder, tale, I, 125, 493 b.
Drink which causes forgetfulness, I, 363, and n., 364.
Drinking formulas, challenge and response, V, 71-73.
Drinking to friends upon the eve of execution, IV, 30 n.
Drolleries, nonplussing, I, 20-2, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b; IV, 440 b.
Drowned bodies, mode of discovering, II, 143, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a.
Drum, Laird of, ballad, IV, 322 ff.
Drumclog, ballad, IV, 105 ff.
Drummond. See under Family Names.
Dsanglun, oder der Weise und der Thor, I, 11 n., 13.
Duel in which innocent boy of fifteen vanquishes false accuser of thirty-three, IV, 371, 373. See Child-champion.
Dumfounding, fool wins a princess by, I, 20, 485 a.
Dunbar, William, Of Sir Thomas Norray, III, 91;
God gif ye war John Thomsoneis man, V, 8.
Durham, Battle of, III, 282 ff.
Dwarf-king, hill-king, beguiles a princess; she has children by him, though remaining with her mother; revealing the condition of things she is forced to go to the hill, where she dies or drinks a Lethean draught which makes her forget all her earlier history, I, 362, 363, and n.;
woman lives in the hill and there has her children; after eight or nine years is allowed to go home on terms; violating these, is compelled to return to the hill, where she dies, or is given a drink which induces forgetfulness, I, 363 f.
See Merman.
Dwarf Land, I, 259.
Dying man, woman, directs that father, mother, wife, etc., be kept in ignorance of his, her, death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 380 f., 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.
Earl of Toulouse, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.
Eating and drinking, personal contact, exchange of speech, etc., in Elfland, or any abode of unearthly beings, perilous, I, 322-5, 327 f.; II, 505; IV, 455, 458.
Edda, the Elder (Sæmund’s):
Völuspá, I, 21;
Þrymskviða, I, 298;
Vafþrúðnismál, I, 13, 283 n., 404;
Grímnismál, I, 67;
Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419;
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.;
Helgakviða Hundingsbana, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306;
Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392;
Sigrdrífumál, I, 392;
Sigurðarkviða Fafnisbana, III, 2, 127;
Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.
Edda, Snorri’s:
Gylfaginning, I, 283 n.;
Skáldskaparmál, I, 94 n., 283 n.; II, 127; IV, 479 b.
Der edle Moringer, I, 196, 459; V, 291 b.
Edward the III and the Tanner of Tamworth, play by T. Heywood, V, 68 n.
Eger and Grime, Eger, Grime and Graysteel, romance, I, 209; II, 56; III, 306.
Egil’s apple-shot, III, 16.
Egils Saga ok Ásmundar, IV, 443.
Eildon Tree, I, 320 n., 324, 325, 327.
Eindriði, III, 18, 20 n.
Der Eisenhans, tale, V, 46.
Der Eisenhofen, tale, I, 307 n.
Der eiserne Mann, tale, V, 46.
Eleanor, Queen of Henry II of England, III, 257 ff.;
of Edward I, 257.
Eleusinian priests, holy names of, V, 285 b.
Elf-dance, I, 375-77; IV, 459 a; V, 216 a.
Elfin knight haunts a hill, I, 15-7;
elfin knight sets a maid tasks to be done before she can marry him, I, 15-17.
Elf-knight, hill-man, excites love-longing by the sound of his horn, I, 15-17, 23, 55, 367.
Elf-queen would have taken out Tam Lin’s eyes and have put in eyes of wood, I, 343, 345, 356.
Elf-queen and witches take out the heart of man and replace it with straw, stone, etc., I, 339, 345, 347 f., 353, 356.
Elf-rod controls the will, I, 362.
Elf-shot, elf-stroke (==Elveskud), I, 374-7, 382, 385.
Élie de Saint-Gille and Rosamonde, I, 458 n.; III, 508 a, b.
Ellensborg, Stolt, Jomfrue (Ellen), Scandinavian representative of Susie Pye, I, 459-61.
Elliot. See under Family names.
Elritch (eldrige) king haunts a hill in the night and fights with any comer, II, 58 f.;
fighting with elritch or spectral knights, II, 511 a; III, 508.
Elves, mermaids, or water-nymphs:
ballads in which the results of dealing with or encountering them prove fatal, I, 372-389;
inconstancy in relations with elves, mermaids, etc., has fatal consequences, I, 372-5, 387-9;
elf threatens man with sickness, knives, death, if he will not dance with her, I, 376 f.;
option of living with elves, marrying an elf, or dying, I, 377, 379, 381, 383 f.;
poison grains in drink given by elves, I, 375;
elf, hill-maid, mermaid, promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to her (dance with her), I, 314, 375, 376; III, 504 a; V, 214 b;
offers man shirt as love-token, V, 284;
elves, spirits and the like, reproaching or insulting, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b;
elves and water-sprites desire help of mortal women at lying-in time and in nursing, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b.
See also Elf-dance, Elfin, Elf-queen, Elf-rod, Elf-shot.
Emma, wife of Cnut the Great, her ordeal, and ballad concerning, II, 38, and n.
Enchantment, restoration from, after successive changes of shape, by drawing blood, I, 337;
by drinking blood, etc., 337 n.;
victim of enchantment, inoffensive before, becomes fierce and destructive, I, 289 f., 294 f., 316.
L’Enfant de Chœur de Notre-Dame du Puy, legend, III, 240.
Engelische Comedien und Tragedien, V, 97.
Englishmen warned not to come to Scotland for brides, IV, 219, 221 f., 224-8, 230.
Epithets (as Fair Margaret, Sweet William, Child Maurice):
Bold, I, 453; II, 320.
Bonny, II, 276; III, 447; IV, 52 f., 143, 233.
Burd, I, 256; II, 71, 87, 91, 97, 140; IV, 418-421; V, 227-9.
Child, Chil, Chiel, I, 62; II, 85, 128, 133, 263;
Child of Ell, I, 103;
child of Wynd, Childy Wynd==Child Owyne, I, 312 f.; II, 503 f.;
alternating with Gil, I, 62; II, 130, 263.
Clerk, I, 387-9; II, 158-161, 164 f.; IV, 385 f., 428, 468.
Dove (Dow), II, 97.
Fair, I, 341, 343, 345, 431; II, 63, 92, 100, 179, 200, 207, 212, 213, etc.
Hind, I, 187, 369 f.; II, 305.
Kemp, Kempy, I, 300, 306.
Love, II, 216 f., 220-3, 293, 369 f., 389, 395.
May, I, 22, 369; II, 158, 164, 232, 305; III, 452, 455; V, 257;
Maid Marian, III, 218.
Mild (Mile), II, 72, 315; III, 386, 395 f., 398; IV, 507 f., 510 f.
Sweet, I, 68; II, 97, 100, 168 f., 171, 179, 200, 226, 291, etc.
Young, I, 256, 367, 371, 432, 454; II, 51, 142, 282, 288, 343; III, 452, 454 f., etc.
Erl of Toulous, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.
Errol, Earl of, ballad, IV, 282 ff.
Essex, the young Earl of, V, 146.
Estmere, nuncio of King Adler, II, 50;
King, and brother of Adler, 51-5.
Ettrick Forest, V, 187-9, 191-7.
Eulenspiegel, I, 409.
Eulogium Historiarum, I, 157.
Eustace the Monk, III, 43, 53, 109, 191, 211, 476 n.
Evils, a hundred, enter into a man who has proved false in love, IV, 419.
Example-books, I, 292 n.
Fa, Faa, Faw, Foix, Faux, IV, 61-70;
Johnie, Jockie, Faa, 61-6, 68-70; IV, 513 b, 522 a; V, 188;
takes in one manuscript the place of Captain Car or of Edom o Gordon, IV, 513 b.
Fabliaux: Le mantel mautaillié, Cort Mantel, I, 257, 266;
La mule sanz frein, I, 417 n.;
Du povre mercier, III, 54;
Du chevalier qui ooit la messe, etc., III, 96 n.;
Du chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, III, 258;
Le chevalier à l’espée, III, 508 a;
Des tresces, V, 22 f., n.;
Du chevalier à la corbeille, V, 121.
Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392.
Fair Annie of Kirkland, ballad of A. Cunningham’s, I, 436.
The Fair one of the Castle, Persian riddle poem, I, 417.
A fair pretty maiden she sat on her bed, IV, 439 b.
Fairies, euphemisms for, good damsels, good ladies, I, 314, gude neighbors, I, 352 (cf. Romaic, I, 314 n.);
failure of a husband to rescue his wife who had been carried off by, I, 336;
ride white steeds, I, 216, 323, 325, 339 f. (Tam Lin mounted, but not the rest of the fairy train, 342, 344, 346, 348, 349, 351, 352, 355);
ride dapple-gray steeds, 324, 326;
fairies, water-spirits, etc., solicit help of mortal women at lying-in time and as nurses, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b, 290 b;
fairy, at first appearance, taken for the Virgin, I, 319, 327; III, 504 a; IV, 455;
fairy salve applied to mortals’ eyes gives power of seeing fairies, but is dangerous to use, I, 339; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, 290 a.
False luve, and hae ye played me this, IV, 210.
Family names, the principal:—
Argyll, III, 397; IV, 55-60, 99, 131, 135, 271; V, 252, 266;
Gleyd Argyle, IV, 55, 57-60, 135.
Armstrong, III, 363-71, 409, 419, 461-7, 469-83, 485 n.; IV, 432; V, 298.
Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II, 244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.
Burnet, I, 453; IV, 82, 355-8. (Burnett for Barnard, II, 256.)
Campbell, III, 427, 435-8; IV, 56-59, 142-4, 514; V, 252. See Argyll.
Cassilis, Earl of, IV, 62, 64-7, 70, 124, 133; V, 301.
Crichton, III, 458-60; IV, 39-47.
Douglas, III, 282-5, 288-301, 304 f., 307-14, 409, 411-14, 443-6; IV, 36 f., 50, 90 f., 93-104, 499-501; V, 190, 227, 243 f.
Drummond, IV, 276, 282, 292.
Elliot, III, 370, 471, 473; IV, 5 f., 34; V, 249-51;
Martin Elliot, III, 409, 471; V, 249-51.
Fenwick (Fennick, Fenix, Phenix, Phœnix), II, 312, 442-55; IV, 140, 371-5.
Forbes, IV, 48 f., 51-3, 83, 86; V, 254.
Gordon (Huntly, Aboyne), III, 294, 296, 299, 301, 341, 345, 349, 378 f., 400, 424-6, 432-8, 447-9, 456 f.; IV, 39-47, 51-3, 80-7, 108 f., 124, 127, 129 f., 133-8, 295, 312-22, 333-8, 341 f., 344, 347-50, 500 f., 505, 513 f.; V, 165, 243 f., 247 f., 254, 270-75, 301.
Graham (Græme, Gryme), I, 211; III, 299, 318; IV, 9-15, 76, 78, 105-7, 109 f., 146-8; IV, 157, 241 f., 267-9, 500, 518-20; V, 265, 300. See Montrose.
Hall, III, 485, 487-94; IV, 24-8, 517, 520 f.
Hamilton, III, 285, 341, 382, 384-97, 428, 431, 442; IV, 36, 38, 64, 106, 108, 163, 505-13; V, 187, 191, 193, 246 f., 298 f.
Hay, IV, 41 f., 45, 48, 127 f., 136, 233 f., 282-4, 286-91; V, 267-9, 301.
Howard, III, 335-7, 339-45, 348-56, 359, 377; IV, 503-7.
Hume, Home, III, 409, 412; IV, 12 f., 272 f., 281, 293 f., 296-8, 518; V, 270.
Lindsay, III, 291, 299, 301; IV, 256-66, 276-9, 500 f., 524; V, 243 f., 264 f.
Livingston, II, 312, 314 f.; III, 381, 382 n., 389 f.; IV, 29-33, 233, 235-8, 431-3; V, 227-9, 246, 261.
Macdonald (Macdonell), III, 316-19; IV, 256-66, 271 f., 274 f., 524; V, 265-7.
Macgregor, Rob Roy, IV, 243, 246-53; V, 263 f.;
Rob Oig, IV, 243-54; V, 262-4;
James, IV, 243 f., 252;
Duncan, IV, 244;
Glengyle, IV, 245, 252.
Maxwell, III, 292, 296, 298, 310, 313, 485; IV, 34-38.
Murray, III, 298, 310; V, 185, 187-97, 307.
Neville, III, 283 f., 402-4, 406, 409, 417, 419-23.
Ogilvie, III, 316; IV, 55 f., 58, 333 f., 336-8; V, 252.
Percy, II, 383 f.; III, 282 f., 286, 289-301, 304 f., 307-14, 402-6, 409-14; IV, 500 f.; V, 243 f.
Scott, III, 297 f., 469-74; IV, 5-8, 34, 163 f.; V, 189, 249 f.
Scott of Buccleuch, III, 410, 417, 469-74; V, 186, 189.
Stanley, III, 328 f., 331-3, 354-9, 377 f.
Stuart, III, 298, 316; IV, 109, 425;
Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, IV, 55, 57-60; V, 252;
Francis, Earl of Bothwell, III, 449;
Henry, Earl of Darnley, III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401, 442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;
James, Earl of Murray, Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447;
James, the Bonny Earl of Murray, III, 447-9;
James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, IV, 116, 118-23; V, 255.
See Kings and Queens of England and Scotland.
Farce d’un Chauldronnier, V, 97 f.
The Farmer, his wife, and the open door, Indian tale, V, 281.
Farmer Weathersky, Norse tale, III, 507.
Farrow cow’s milk regarded as best, I, 224; II, 261.
Fascinating horn (harp), I, 15-17, 50, 55; IV, 441.
Fascinating song, I, 25, 28 b, 31-35, 37 f., 44, 485; IV, 441; V, 285 a.
Les Faveurs et les Disgraces de l’Amour, French tale from Bandello, I, 269.
La Fée Urgèle, melodrama of Favart, I, 292.
The Felon Sow and the Friars of Richmond, I, 209 n.
Fenwick. See under Family Names.
La Fiancée du Mort, Breton tale, V, 303 b.
Fiddle, parts of maid’s body taken for, fiddle speaks, I, 494; IV, 449.
Fights, hand to hand, of Robin Hood or his men, duration of:
one hour, III, 64, 219;
two hours, 93, 138, 151;
three hours, 153;
six hours, 125, 166, 169;
a long summer’s day, 131.
Fikenild, Horn’s false friend, I, 188-90.
Filer le parfait amour, tale of Sénecé, I, 269.
Fin, Finn, Finns, I, 21; II, 494, 496 b. See Finns.
Fin, a diabolic personage or warlock, his wit-contest with Harpkin, I, 21.
Finger cut off, of maid substituted for mistress, exhibited as token of conquest of the mistress’s virtue, V, 22-4, 27.
Fingers knacked, knocked, cracked, wrung, for grief, II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9. (Some passages corrupted.)
Finn, Gaelic hero, his wife tries the robe which is the test of chastity, I, 261 f.; cf. V, 289 a.
Finns, submarine, by donning seal-skin, enabled to ascend to land, losing the skin become subject to the power of man like swan-maidens, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.
See Fin.
Finsbury field, archery at, III, 197, 201, 203.
Fionn’s conversation with Ailbhe, I, 3.
Fionn’s Questions, Gaelic tale, I, 3.
Fire will not burn a maid accused but innocent; burns her guilty mistress, II, 145 f., 148, 153, 155.
Fish, frying, fly out of the pan to attest the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, I, 241; II, 501 b; IV, 452 a; V, 288 b.
Fitchers Vogel, tale, I, 47.
Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.
La Flauuto, French tale, I, 125.
La Fleur du Rocher, Breton story, III, 504.
Floamanna saga, II, 35 n.; V, 275.
Flodden, Battle of, III, 351 ff.
Floire et Blanceflor, Flor and Blancheflor, romance, I, 269; II, 500 a, 502 a, 510 b; V, 175.
La Flor del Lililá, Spanish tale, I, 125.
Florent, in Gower’s Confessio Amantis, I, 291 f.
Florentina, De Historia van, I, 268, 459 n.
Florimel’s girdle, I, 267, and n.
Das Flötenrohr, tale, III, 499.
Flowers, costume of, IV, 212-14; V, 258 f.
Flyting, baffling spirits by scolding, or by getting the last word, I, 20-2, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Foiling mischievous sprites and ghosts by prolonging talk till the time when they must go, IV, 440 b;
Thor detains Alvíss till after sunrise; being above ground at dawn, he is turned to stone, I, 419.
Folk-drama, etc.
See Robin Hood, St. George.
Fool poses princess (and gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b.
Foot-ball match, II, 434 f.
Forbes, family of Drumminor at the battle of Harlaw, III, 319;
encounters of the Forbeses with Adam Gordon, III, 424-6;
burning of the house of Towie (or Corgarf), 424 f., 427;
family of Craigievar, IV, 51-3.
See under Family Names.
Foresters, fosters, III, 3-11, 28, 152, 176, 215; V, 74, and n.
Forgetfulness of earthly relations induced by draught administered to a woman by hill-folk, I, 363, and n., 364;
man made by magical or other means to forget a first love, suddenly restored to consciousness and to his predilection, I, 461, and n.
Fornsvenskt Legendarium, I, 14 n., 237 n.; II, 2, 7 n.
Fortalicium Fidei of Espina, III, 239.
Forty Viziers, Turkish tales, I, 402; V, 13, 97.
Fountain springs where maid has been murdered, V, 287 a.
Fountains Abbey, III, 121, 123 f., 126.
The Four Elements, morality, II, 240; III, 42 n.
Frater i turski car, Croatian tale, I, 409.
Frau Tristerat of Savoy, horn of, meistergesang, I, 263.
Frendraught, Fire of, IV, 39 ff., 521 f.; V, 251, 301.
Frendraught, A Satyre against, etc., IV, 522.
Friar in the Well, The, ballad and tune, V, 100.
Friar of Orders Grey, Percy’s ballad, and ballads like it, II, 426 f.; V, 201.
Friar Tuck:
not a member of Robin Hood’s company in any old ballad, III, 43;
but in both the plays, 91, 127 f.,
in the latter representing the Curtal Friar of the ballad, who is even called Friar Fuck in the title of one version, though not in the ballad, 122;
simply named as of Robin Hood’s troop in two later ballads, 198, 209;
a character in the May-game, and perhaps the morris, 44-6;
Friar Tuck in Munday’s play, The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 179, 519.
Friðþjófs saga, IV, 376.
Froissart, III, 283 n., 289-94, 337 n.; V, 297 b.
Fruit, eating of in subterranean garden, entails going to hell, I, 322, 324, 328 f.
Fulk Fitz-Warine, III, 40 n., 43, 49 n., 51, 53, 95, 109, 476 n., 519.
The Fuller’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.
Le Fumeur de Hachich et sa femme, tale, V, 304 a.
La Furnarella, Italian tale==the ballad ‘Il Genovese,’ II, 502 a.
Fyvie, cheese of, as a love-potion, V, 305 b.
The Gaberlunyie man, V, 109 f., 115 f.
Gabs, brags, vows, I, 277, 281, 283, 285.
Galerent, romance, IV, 463 b.
Galien, romance, I, 274, 276 n., 278 n., 282 n., 507 a.
Gamble Gold, a pedlar, otherwise Gamwell of the greenwood, turns out to be Robin Hood’s cousin (see Gamwell, Young), III, 155; V, 240.
Game-laws, offenders against (besides Robin Hood and his men), III, 3-11, 13 (?), 22.
Gamelyn, tale of, III, 12, 22, 51-3, 144.
Games, ballads turned into, I, 33 n.; II, 346; III, 516 b; IV, 439 b, 441 b.
Games: gallant rides at the ring; plays at the ba, and glove, III, 448;
girl plays at ring and ba, IV, 354, A, b, 1, 2.
Gamwel, Robin Hood’s mother of that name, III, 215.
Gamwell, Young, nephew of Robin Hood according to late ballads; afterwards called Scarlet, Scadlock, III, 146, 150;
Gamwell of the green-wood, an apparent pedlar, is discovered to be Robin Hood’s cousin, V, 240.
These, and Gamble Gold, III, 155, are the same person.
Gandelyn, III, 12-14.
Die Gänsemagd, Grimms’ German tale, V, 47;
Russian form, 281.
Garrett, Sir (==Sir Gareth), I, 295.
Garðaríki, I, 460 n.
Gasozein, gives himself out as Guenever’s first love, I, 279 n.
Gautier de Coincy, II, 13; III, 52 n., 239.
Gautier de Doulens (Gaucher de Dourdan), Conte du Graal, ugly lady (Rosette) in, V, 289 b.
Gawain, I, 285, 289 f., 294-296; V, 289 b.
Gaya, Ramiro’s wife, V, 5 f.
Geiplur, Icelandic “rune,” I, 275, and n.
Gelô, IV, 443 a.
Genovefa, Die Legende von der Pfalzgräfin, II, 41, and n.
Genoveva, falsely accused of adultery, II, 41.
George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, a play by Robert Greene, III, 129, 130, and n.;
George a Green, a prose history, III, 130.
Gerhard, the Good, I, 197, 459.
Geruth, the giant, I, 323.
Gervase of Tilbury, I, 339 n., 359; II, 56, 511.
Gesta Romanorum, I, 8, 13, 191 n., 268, 391, 393, 406, 416, 418 n., 458 n.; II, 137, 502; III, 122.
Gestr the Blind (Odin) and King Heiðrekr, give each other riddles, I, 405.
Der getheilte Trauring, tale, I, 198.
Die getreue Frau, tale, I, 268 b, 4-6.
Le Geu des Trois Roys, mystery-play, II, 7 f.
Geyti shoots a nut from his brother’s head, III, 18.
Ghismonda and Guiscardo, in the Decameron, V, 29 ff., 303.
Ghost tears to pieces lover going from his mistress, and hangs a bit over every seat in church, IV, 416;
ghost of mother would have torn daughter to pieces, V, 303 b.
Giant with five heads, II, 59;
with three on his neck and three on his breast, V, 184;
giant with three spans between his brows and three yards between his shoulders, II, 394;
span between the eyes (brows) and three ells between the shoulders in ‘The Wee Man,’ I, 332.
Gifts offered by elf, hill-troll, mermaid to obtain young man’s love, I, 314, 375 f., 384; III, 504 a; V, 214.
Gigantic Scotsmen, IV, 397-9.
Gilbert of the White Hand, one of Robin Hood’s troop in the Gest, III, 70, 76.
Gilbert Beket, his legend, I, 457.
The Gipsie Laddie, ballad made over by Percy, IV, 62.
Giraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, V, 13.
Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Cambriae, I, 320 n.; II, 513 a;
Speculum Ecclesiae, V, 72 f.
Girl enticed into an inn by the hostler’s wife and put at a man’s disposal, V, 153-6.
Glammaðr, berserkr, IV, 443 a.
Glascurion (Chaucer), II, 136.
Glove, a game for braw gallants, III, 448, A, 5.
Glove, woman being unfit to dance, lover says he will cut his glove in two and dance for both, II, 105, st. 18.
Gloves, golden-knobbed, II, 133;
siller-knapped, 134.
Gnúpr, IV, 502 a.
God be with thee, Geordie, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
God offered as security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.
Golagros and Gawane, romance, I, 279 n.
Gold castles promised by knight to lady, I, 112.
Der Goldäpfelbaum und die Höllenfahrt, Greek tale, II, 509.
Golden apple thrown into the lap of a woman who has been made to consort with hill-man or merman, and who has been granted leave to visit her mother, to remind her of her obligations or to enforce her return, I, 364 f.
The Golden Key or Ball, tale, with verses from the ballad of the Maid Ransomed from the Gallows, II, 353-5; V, 201, 233.
Golden Legend, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505; II, 235, 507; III, 51, 294 n.
Der goldene Apfel, tale, I, 125.
Das goldene Horn, meistergesang, I, 263.
Goldgerte, Greek tale, I, 338.
Goldsmith, Oliver, II, 276; III, 367.
Göngu-Hrólfs Saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.
Goodnights, IV, 36.
The Goose Girl, German tale, V, 47, 281.
Gordon.
See under Family Names.
Gordon, Adam, III, 424-6, 432-8; IV, 513 f.; V, 247 f.
Gordon, Duke of Gordon’s Daughter, ballad, IV, 332 ff.
Gordon, George, hero of the ballad of Geordie, IV, 124 ff.
Gordon, William, of Rothiemay, IV, 39 ff.
Gorm’s visit to Guthmund, I, 323.
Görtmicheel, robber story, I, 488.
Gorvömb, Icelandic tale, I, 507.
Gôsht-i Fryânô, tale in Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 506 f.
Gospels, apocryphal: Nicodemus, I, 239, 240 n.;
Thomas, Greek and Latin, II, 7;
Protevangelium of James, I, 271;
Pseudo-Matthew, 1, 271; II, 1, 2 n., 7.
Gower, Confessio Amantis, I, 10, 291, 292 n.; V, 285.
Graf Hubert von Kalw, German tale, I, 198.
Graham.
See under Family Names.
Graham, Bewick and, ballad, IV, 144 ff.
Graidhne and Fionn, I, 3;
Graidhne and Diarmaid, I, 8.
Gramarye, for magic, in King Estmere, II, 53-55, efficient to make armor invulnerable, a man too formidable to be undertaken (written on his forehead), and swords irresistible.
Gramatica Parda, Spanish story, I, 407.
Grame, Hughie, ballad, IV, 8 ff.
La gran conquista de ultramar, II, 43 n.
Grant, James, ballad, IV, 49 ff.
Grateful lion, I, 194 f.
Grave: boy directs that he shall be buried with Bible at his head, chaunter at his feet, bow and arrows at his side, I, 438;
arrows at head, bent bow at feet, sword and buckler by his side, I, 440;
Bible at head, Testament at feet, III, 247-50 (also pen and ink at every side, 247);
Bible at head, “busker” at feet, prayer-book by right side, Bible at head, prayer-book at feet, III, 252;
Bible at head, Testament at feet, prayer-book at side, IV, 497 f.;
prayer-book at head, grammar at feet, V, 241;
Robin Hood wishes to be buried with sword at head, arrows at feet, bow and metyard by his sides, III, 105; cf. III, 104; V, 297 b.
Grave (for two): Lay my lady on the upper hand (uppermost), for she came of the better kin, II, 245, 247, 254.
Lay my lady on the sunny side because of her noble kin, II, 251; IV, 477;
Bury my bully Grahame on the sunny side, for I’m sure he’s won the victory, IV, 148;
Lay Munsgrove in the lowest flat, he’s deepest in the sin, II, 258.
(Coffin for two), Lay my lady at the right hand, for she’s come of the noblest kin, II, 253, 255.
Grave, living person descends into, and remains, V, 285 b.
Grave to be made where arrow falls, I, 185.
Graves, flowers from, in Miracles of the Virgin, I, 98 f.
Graves, lovers’, plants and trees from, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200, 489 f., 492, 506 a; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498; III, 498, 510 b, 515; IV, 443, 450 a, 465; V, 31, 207, 224, 226, 262, 285 f.
Gray, Thomas, II, 264.
The great bull of Bendy-law, V, 203.
The Great Michael, a remarkably large and strong ship, commanded by Sir Robert Barton, III, 335 n.
Greek Anthology, V, 13.
Green, unlucky color, blue fortunate, II, 181 f., 184, 512; IV, 162;
Fair Annie, nevertheless is dressed in green, II, 196, and her men and maids in green (in an Irish copy), 197 f.
The Green Knight (Bredbeddle), I, 286 f.
Die Greifenfeder, tale of Italian Tirol, I, 125.
Grief, excessive, for the dead destroys their peace, II, 228, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513 b; V, 62 f., 294.
Grimms, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, I, 9, 14, 47, 125, 126, 198, 260 n., 408, 410; II, 127, 235, 502; IV, 17; V, 46 f.
Grímnismál, Edda, I, 67.
Grímr and Lopthæna, I, 292 f.;
Grímr consenting to three demands of a hideous woman, she turns into his beautiful true-love, Lopthæna, who had been transformed by her step-mother (Gríms saga Loðinkinna).
Gríms saga Loðinkinna, I, 292 f.
Der Grindkopf, Italian tale, II, 513 b.
Gromer, Sir, Sir Grummore Grummorsum, Gromer Somer Joure, etc., I, 289, and n., 290, and n.; V, 289 b.
Growth, marvellous, and other precociousness, especially in heroes of tales and romances, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b; V, 226 a, 295 a.
Guapos, Spanish ballads of, III, 49.
Gudeman of Ballengeigh. I, 404.
Gudrun, I, 94 n., 95 n.
See Kudrun.
Guenever, Arthur’s queen, I, 257 f., 260-3, 271-3, 279 n., 283, 293, 296; II, 43 n.
Guerino, son of the King of Sicily, tale of Straparola, V, 46.
Guillaume d’Orenge, V, 298 a.
Guillaume de Palerne, romance, III, 505.
Guinevere.
See Guenever.
Guingamor, Lay of, V, 290 a.
Guiscardo and Ghismonda, Boccaccio’s tale, V, 29.
Gull-Þóris saga, IV, 502 a.
Gun charged with nine yards of chain beside other great shot, less and more, III, 341; IV, 505.
Gundeberg, wife of King Arioald, accused of adultery, vindicated by champion, II, 39.
Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, II, 37.
Gunild, Gunder, wife of Henry, Duke of Brunswick, II, 34-36;
Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, wife of the Emperor Henry III, 37.
Gunnlaugs saga, II, 35 n.; V, 298 a.
Gustav Adolf und der Abt von Benediktbeuern, tale, I, 408.
Guthmund, I, 323.
Gwion and Koridgwen, Welsh tale, I, 402; II, 506 b; III, 507 a; V, 216.
Gypsies, IV, 62-74; V, 190.
Gypsy Davy, IV, 67, 72, 74;
Gypsy Geordie, 70.
Die Hahnkrähe bei Breslau. Silesian tale, I, 196 n.
Haig, James, IV, 281.
Hair, worn loose or in a braid by maid, bound up by married woman, II, 64 n., 69, 74 (D 3, E 3), 78 (5).
Hair, woman’s, added to a rope to lengthen it, I, 40;
man’s, III, 516 b;
sea-king’s daughter makes a rope of sixty ells’ length with her hair; maid with hair a hundred fathoms long, I, 486 (both used to draw a man out of a well or pit);
maid’s hair long enough to climb up by, I, 486 f.;
woman’s hair five quarters long, III, 437; IV, 167 f.;
man’s hair three, five, quarters long, IV, 172-4.
Hair:
woman ties her hair ronnd her dead husband’s, lover’s, waist, hand, and carries, draws, him home, IV, 166-8; V, 255;
ties his hair (five quarters long) to her horse’s mane and trails him home, IV, 173;
twines his hair (five quarters long) round her hand and draws him out of a river, 174;
twines her hair about his waist and draws him out of a river, 179.
Hair of maid substituted for mistress cut off and exhibited as token of conquest of the supposed mistress’s virtue, V, 22, and n.
Hálf’s, King, ship saved from foundering by man jumping overboard (and drowning), II, 15.
Hálfs saga, I, 95.
Hall.
See under Family Names.
Hall, Dicky, delivers his brother Archie from jail, III, 487-9, 492-4;
he is assisted by Jocky Hall, III, 487-9;
Jocky is the leader and Dick second, 489 f., 491 f.
Hall, knights and others riding into, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a;
horses stabled in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 510 f.; III, 508 a.
Halloween, I, 342, 25, 344, 24, 345, 6, 346, 16, 347, 8, 349, 9, 351, 30, 352, 8, 507, 1, 2; III, 505, 11; IV, 456, 458 (eve of All Saints, when fairy folk ride);
hemp-seed sown by girls for a vision of their true love, V, 59, 286 a.
Hamilton.
See under Family Names.
Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrew’s, III, 442, 445 f.
Hamilton, Mary, maid of honor to Catharine, Tsar Peter’s wife, her history, III, 382 f.;
agreements with the Scottish ballad, 383.
Hamilton, Mary, in the ballad, scorns the offer of life after having been put to public shame, III, 386, 388;
historical foundation for the ballad of Mary Hamilton (No 299), views of Andrew Lang, the affair of the Frenchman and the Queen’s apothecary, V, 298 f.
Hamiltons in Russia, III, 382 f.
Hanpang and Ho, Chinese story, II, 498.
Hans ohne Sorgen, tale, I, 408, and n., 409 n.
Hans Sachs, I, 196 a, 267; II, 40 n., 42; III, 258; V, 210.
Haraldr Harðráðr, III, 17.
Hardy, Spence, Manual of Buddhism, I, 11 n.
Harlaw, Battle of, ballad, III, 316 ff.
Harp, power of, I, 216 f., 439; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; V, 220 b, 293 a;
everybody harped to sleep but the king’s daughter, etc., I, 55; II, 137, 139 f.; V, 220 b;
all the lords harped asleep, IV, 18-21;
Quintalin’s harp decoys women, I, 50;
harp, viol, or fiddle made from drowned maid’s body, I, 121 f., 126-35;
or from tree into which the drowned girl had grown up, 121, 124, 493 b;
the instrument of itself, or when played upon, reveals that the girl was drowned by her sister, 122, 126-35.
Harpkin, I, 21.
Harribie (Harraby Hill, about a mile from Carlisle, formerly the place of execution), III, 463 f., 472.
Hass-Fru, Swedish tale, I, 461 n.
Hatherof==Athulf, Horn’s faithful friend, I, 192.
Hawk, riddle of: if not in good order, lady has been unfaithful, I, 191, and n.
Head, Halewijn’s, Roland’s, Gert Olbert’s, Jan Albert’s, Schön-Albert’s, speaks after it is cut off, I, 25, 26, 30, 49, 485 f.
Heads of men who have failed in an enterprise displayed on castle walls, or on palisades of stakes, with one place left, pour encourager les autres, I, 417 n.; II, 507 b; III, 507 a; IV, 459 b; V, 291 a (three stakes for three adventurers, V, 216).
Heads of thirty Portuguese sent home, salted, by Sir Andrew Barton, to be eaten with bread, IV, 502, 505.
Heart, lover’s heart cut out and sent to his mistress by her father, or husband, V, 29-38, 303;
the heart is sent cooked and is eaten by the lady, 31-34;
heart (stewed) of a girl given her husband by jealous wife, 34;
heart served by twelve husbands to their twelve wives, 34.
Hearts, children’s, man who had devoured nine would have power of flying, I, 34 n.
Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio, ix, 8, V, 13.
Heimir, V, 243 b.
Heinrich von dem Türlîn, Der Mantel, I, 259 f.;
Diu Crône, 264, 266, 279 a.
Heiðreks saga, V, 8.
Heinz der Kellner, his Turandot, I, 418 a; II, 507 b; V, 291 a.
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.
Helgakviða Hundingsbana, II, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306.
Helgi and Sigrún, II, 228, 235.
Heliodorus, Aethiopica, I, 270.
Hemingr and King Haraldr contend in feats: Hemingr shoots a nut from his brother’s head, III, 17 f., 518 b.
Hemings Þáttr, III, 17, 19 n.
Hemp-seed sown by girls on the eve of All-Hallows to obtain a sight of their true-love, V, 59, 286 a.
Henning Wulf’s apple-shot, III, 17.
Henri IV, La Partie de Chasse de, Collé’s drama, V, 75.
Henry V, of England, his conquest of France, ballad, III, 320 ff.
Henry, Duke of Brunswick, and his wife Gunild, II, 34-6.
Henry of Brunswick (Henry the Lion), Reinfrid of Brunswick, I, 194-6, 197 n., 459, 502 b.
Hereward the Saxon, III, 43, 109, 476 n.; V, 287 b.
Herod and St. Stephen, I, 233 ff.
Herodotus, I, 271; V, 212 b.
Herr Peder den rige, Scandinavian representative of Young Beichan, I, 459-61.
Der Herr von Falkenstein, tale, I, 459 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.
Das Herz, Das Herzmäre, rhymed tale of Konrad von Würzburg, V, 33, 303 b.
Herzog Ernst, I, 197 n.
Herzog Heinrich der Löw, Historia, of Hans Sachs, I, 196; V, 210.
Hey trollie lollie love is jolly, from a Yule medley, IV, 93.
Heykar, Geschichte des weisen, I, 11 n., 12 f.
Heywood’s Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, I, 85.
Hideous woman will answer questions for Arthur (or other), whose life is at stake if he does not give the right reply, only on condition of her marrying Gawain, or the young man who is in danger, I, 289, 291, 292, 294;
she turns into a beautiful young girl on being allowed to have her own way, 290, 291, 292, 295 f.;
hideous woman, magically transformed, restored to her proper beauty by being allowed to have her whole will, I, 293, 297-9;
hideous woman converted to beautiful one on being married to her will, I, 507 a.
See V, 289 b.
Highlander induces a Lowland lass to marry him in spite of the opposition of her parents, IV, 256-75, 524;
he pretends that his father is a shepherd, his mother a dey, etc., but after putting her to a severe trial turns out to be a gentleman of wealth and importance, a Macdonald, 255-66, 524 (Donald, Earl of the Isle of Skye, 271 f., 274 f.);
Highlander preferred by girl to Lowland man or English, IV, 267;
Highlander induces girl to go with him regardless of her father’s opposition, V, 165 f., 306.
Hildebrandslied, I, 196.
Hildesage, I, 94, and n., 95 n.
Hildina, in Shetland ballad, I, 94 n., 95 n.
Hill-king:
see Dwarf-king, Merman, Hind Etin.
Hill-maid promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to her, I, 314, 375; III, 504 a; V, 214 b.
Hind to be spared by hunter, I, 178, 183, 502 a; II, 156 f.
Hind Etin represents the dwarf-king, elf-king, hill-king of Scandinavian and German ballads, I, 361: Hind Etin (Young Akin) seizes on a king’s daughter in a wood, keeps her seven years in a cave, where she bears seven sons; the eldest one day asks the father why his mother’s cheeks are always wet and learns her story; hearing music while hunting he is moved to take his mother and brother with him, and they come to the king’s gate; they are kindly received, the wood is searched for the father, who is found tearing his hair, and the family live happily at court.
See Dwarf-king, Merman.
Hirlanda, volksbuch, II, 33 n., 43 n.
Das Hirtenbüblein, tale, I, 410.
L’Histoire de Moradbak, I, 11 n.
L’Histoire de Palanus, Comte de Lyon, prose romance, II, 42.
Histoire de Sinkarib et de ses deux Visirs, I, 11 n.
Historia de Nativitate Mariae et de Infantia Salvatoris, II, 1, 2 n., 7.
De Historia van Florentina, etc., I, 268, 459 n.
Hjalmar, Odd and Anganty, II, 50.
Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 306 f., 315, 489 b.
Hobby Noble, chief in the rescue of John o the Side, III, 477-9;
helper, 479-83;
Hobie Noble betrayed to the English by Sim o the Mains, IV, 1.
Hobby-horse, III, 45, 47 f.
Hoccleve. See Occleve.
Hód, Hóde, the name, III, 47 n.
Holinshed, Chronicle of Scotland, II, 143; III, 2, 517.
Holofernes: Professor Bugge’s suggestion that the Halewyn ballad (No 4) is derived from his story, I, 51-54.
Home. See under Family Names.
Homer, Iliad, I, 84; III, 290 n., 306, 367;
Odyssey, I, 322 n., 338 n.; II, 441; III, 510 b; IV, 377;
Hymn to the Delian Apollo, I, 84.
Homildon, the battle of, alleged to have been “done” to requite the death of Percy in the Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 304, 310, 313 f.
Hood==Odin, I, 95;
old Carl Hood, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.;
Auld palmer Hood, IV, 445;
Síðhöttr, Deephood, I, 95.
Hood, Thomas, his Lost Heir, III, 234 n.
Hoodening, Hood==Hooden==Woden (Kuhn), III, 48.
The Hoodie, Gaelic tale, I, 290 n., 503.
Horn of elfin-knight inspires maid with longing for him, I, 15-17, 55;
so Quintalin’s harp, 50;
boon of blowing on horn (often asked by man in difficulty or about to be executed, and often three blasts), III, 122 f., 125, 166, 182; V, 2-6, 8, 127 (pipes, V, 3);
see, also, III, 157; V, 279;
witch’s horn, I, 315; V, 215;
hornblower, hornblâse==witch, I, 314;
horn which will furnish any liquor that is called for, I, 266;
horn filled with pure water, the water turns to the best of wine, I, 263;
horn out of which no cuckold can drink, etc., I, 263 ff.;
horn and lease, tenure by, III, 360.
Horn, fastnachtspiel of the, I, 263.
Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, romance, I, 188, 191-3, 200, 269, 502 a; IV, 401; V, 287 b.
Horn et Rymenhild, French romance, I, 188, 190-3, 502 a.
Horn, Hind, ballad, I, 187 ff., etc.
Horn, King Horn, gest, I, 188-90, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401.
Horse, high-mettled, I, 199, and n.;
horse shod with silver before and gold behind, I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224;
horse, old white cut-tail preferred to a choice among thirty fine steeds, II, 444 f., 450, 453 f.;
Walter of Aquitaine’s worn-out charger, II, 441; III, 276.
Horses stabled by knights in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 54, 510 f.; III, 508 a;
horses’ shoes reversed to deceive pursuers, III, 476 n., 479 f., 487, 489;
youth torn by four wild horses on the false charge of a woman, V, 157;
patrons of horses, St. Stephen, St. Eloi, St. Antony, I, 235 f.
Horsley, William, a bowman employed by Lord Howard against Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-3, 345, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.
Host, the consecrated.
See Communion-bread.
House of Marr, IV, 157;
of the Rhodes, III, 433;
of Rothes, V, 247 f.
Housekeeping: lady’s preparations to receive her husband, IV, 312-17, 319 f.; V, 270 f., 301.
How Fraud made entrance into Russia, Russian tale, IV, 459 b.
How long and dreary is the night, air, IV, 302.
How the King of Estmure land married the King’s Daughter of Westmure land, title in The Complaint of Scotland, II, 51 n., 296.
Howard. See under Family Names.
Howard, Katherine, said to have exerted herself to procure Thomas Cromwell’s death, III, 377.
Hrafn and Gunnlaugr, V, 298 a.
Hrólfs saga Kraka, I, 290 n., 297 n., 393, 489.
Hrómundar saga, I, 67, 95.
Hugdietrich, II, 50; IV, 463 b.
Huon de Bordeaux, I complementi della chanson d’, I, 502 a.
Hugh Spencer, the ballad, resembles in a general way Russian bylinas, III, 276; IV, 499.
See Spenser.
Hugh Willoughby, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
Hugo, Emperor of Greece, Charlemagne’s visit to, I, 275-9.
Hume.
See under Family Names.
Hume of Godscroft’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, III, 292; V, 202.
Hunt, an English captain, released on oath by Sir A. Barton, joins Lord Howard in an attack on the Scot, trusting that God will forgive his perjury, III, 340; IV, 504.
Hunter’s (J.) identification of Adam Bell, III, 21 f.;
of Robin Hood, III, 55 f.
Hunting of the Cheviot has the battle of Otterburn for its foundation, III, 304.
Hyacinthus, flower from his blood, I, 99.
Hysmine and Hysminias of Eustathius (Eumathius), I, 270; II, 13 n.
Hystoria de la reyna Sebílla, Spanish tale, II, 40.
I cannot eat but little meat, song in Gammer Gurton’s Needle, V, 132 n.
I have a good old woman (wife) at home, tunes, III, 518.
I have a ȝong suster fer beȝondyn the se, riddle song, I, 415.
I have four sisters beyond the sea, riddle song, I, 415 n.
I sowed the seeds of love, song, V, 258 f.
Il’ja of Murom, captain of the march-keepers, will allow no one to pass; has a fight with a young man who passes nevertheless; is worsted at first: cf. Robin Hood and the Potter, IV, 497 a.
Images in church turn their backs when abandoned woman enters, I, 231;
so when merman comes in, I, 365 a;
everything bows when merman’s (human) wife enters, I, 365 b.
Importance of asking brother’s consent to marry, I, 497 f.
Incestuous connection, I, 185 f., 444-54; III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V, 210.
Ingenuity a transcendental virtue of Mahāyāna Buddhism, I, 11 n.
Innocent blood turns, every drop, to a burning candle, I, 172; II, 39 b.
Interest on loan not obligatory, but the security forfeitable in case of non-payment, III, 52, 60 (85-7), 62 (121);
no interest paid by the knight to the abbot for the loan of £400 for a twelvemonth, III, 62;
present to Robin Hood of 20 mark for the same loan and time (besides 100 bows and 100 sheaf of long and handsome arrows), III, 62, 69.
Iouenn Kerménou, Breton story, III, 501.
Ipomydon, romance, II, 510 b; V, 47.
Iron band forged round a man’s waist as penance, I, 172;
man goes on pilgrimage, weighted with iron on hands and loins, II, 128.
It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat, V, 203.
Italian (Talliant, Tailliant), a champion, leaps over his adversary’s head and is spitted, II, 378, 383, 385, 387 f.
Ivan Carevič i Marfa Carevena, Prince John and Princess Martha, Russian tale, V, 281.
Ivanhoe, Scott’s, III, 43; V, 72 n.
Jacinth, refuses to be worn by adulterer, V, 289 a.
Jacques de Vitry, III, 54, 258 n.
James, Protevangelium of, I, 271.
James IV of Scotland threatens his queen with death for advising him not to make war with England, III, 351 f.
Jane (Seymour), Queen of Henry VIII, her death in child-bed, ballad, III, 372 ff.
Jātakas, V, 292 a.
Jehan de Paris, Le Romant de, I, 191 n.
Jehan et Blonde, Old French romance, I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.
Jews charged with crucifying Christian boys in contempt of Jesus, III, 235-9, 241;
with murdering a boy for singing the praises of the Virgin, 239 f.;
with murders to obtain blood for use in Paschal rites, 240-243; IV, 497 a;
reason not specified, III, 243-54; IV, 497 f.; V, 241;
such murders the reason for the expulsion of Jews from France and Spain, V, 241.
Jhonne Ermistrangis dance, III, 362 f.
Jock of Hazeldean, Scott’s, V, 160.
John II, the Good, of France, III, 283, 287; V, 132.
John of Atherly, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
John o the Scales, V, 14 f.
John (Jock) o the Side, notorious thief, harbors the Countess of Northumberland, III, 409, 419, 475;
taken in a raid and imprisoned at Newcastle, gallantly rescued by Hobby Noble, 477-9;
by the Laird’s Jock, with Noble as a comrade, 479-83.
John the Reeve, rhymed tale, V, 69, and n., 71 n., 72 n., 73.
John (Joan) Thomson’s man, a history; Scottish proverb, V, 8.
Johnstone, Willy, of Wamphray, the Galliard, III, 458-60.
Johnstones, III, 296;
affray with the Crichtons, III, 458-60;
with the Maxwells, III, 485;
feuds with the Maxwells, IV, 34-8;
Sir James Johnstone killed by Lord Maxwell, 35, 51.
Joie des Bestes à la nouvelle de la naissance du Sauveur, I, 240 f., 505 f.; II, 501 b; IV, 451 f.; V, 288 a.
Jonah, story of, perhaps the source of tales of ships arrested in their progress by having guilty persons on board, I, 245; II, 14 n.
Jonson, Ben, Bartholomew Fair, IV, 302;
Discoveries, V, 285;
Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, III, 45;
his admiration of ‘Chevy Chase,’ III, 305.
Josefs Gedicht von den sieben Todsünden, II, 507 a.
Joseph, testy or suspicious towards Mary, II, 1-4, 6.
Joseph and Mary subjected to an ordeal of chastity, I, 271.
Joseph and the Angel, carol, II, 1.
Josephus, I, 404.
Joufrois, Old French romance, III, 508 a.
Jourdains de Blaivies, romance, IV, 502 b.
The Jovial Crew, ballad-opera, II, 127 n.; III, 133 n.
Joy of the beasts at the news of the birth of Christ, I, 240 f., 505 f.; II, 501; IV, 452 a; V, 288 a.
Judas and the legend of the roasted cock, I, 240, 505 b;
Judas took tithes of all money that came into his hands, I, 242;
legend of the thirty pieces, in Wendish ballad, 242 f.;
in English ballad, 243 f.
Judicial combats, II, 34-40, 42 f., 46, 48; III, 508 a; IV, 371-3;
oath in, II, 35 n.; IV, 463 b;
qualified perjury in, II, 35.
Judith, the Old German, I, 51 n.
Judith and Holofernes, the relation of the story to Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, I, 51.
Judith, wife of Louis le Débonnaire, accused of adultery, II, 43 n.
Der Jungherr und der treue Heinrich, rhymed tale, V, 39.
The Justice dealing with outlaws, III, 23-6.
Kalevala, I, 445 f.; II, 506 b, 507 b, 511 b; III, 367.
Kâlidâsa, II, 235.
Kämpa Dater, Nordiska, Björner’s, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.
Kanjur, Vinaya (Buddhist), I, 11 n., 12 n.
Karl der Grosse (Enenkels Weltbuch), I, 199 n.
Karl Meinet, II, 43 n.
Karlamagnus Saga, I, 275, and n.; II, 39 f.
Karodes, the mantle of, I, 261.
Kathá-sarit-ságara, I, 200 n., 268; II, 495, 502 a; IV, 454 a, 463 a,
Kay, Arthur’s steward, I, 245 f., 272;
Kay’s wife, I, 272.
Kay, Kempy, ballad, I, 300 ff., etc.
Ker, Captain.
See Car.
Keraint.
See Bardd.
Ketilbjörn, IV, 502 a.
Kidnapping women for compulsory marriage, IV, 232-54, 309 f., 424 (?); V, 261-4.
Kilhwch and Olwen, Welsh tale, I, 210, 279 n., 281 n.
King and subjects, meetings of, V, 69, 75, n.; 69-86;
king harbored by reeve, collier, shepherd, etc., 69-74, 84-86, 303 b;
his hosts have made free with his deer, 70-72, 85 f.;
munificence of the king, V, 70 f., 73-5, 77, 80, 83, 86.
King found before his gate, II, 52, 4.
King (queen) lets in maid (or other) that knocks, II, 387, 393, 459, 461 f., 471, 474 f.;
Lady, Lord Bangwill, Lord Barnard, Earl Percy, or some principal person, does this, II, 150, 184, 186 f., 187, 190, 253, 266 f., 284, 286, 383; IV, 467.
King visits Robin Hood in the disguise of an abbot, III, 74;
serves Robin Hood with a buffet upon Robin Hood’s missing the mark, is recognized, and pardons the outlaws on condition of their entering his service, 76.
King who regards himself as the richest, most magnificent, etc., in the world is told that there is one who outstrips him, and undertakes to see for himself whether this is so, threatening death to the person who has affirmed his inferiority in case this is disproved, I, 275, 279 n., 281, 282 f., 283, and n.; III, 17 n., 503 b. Cf. Robin Hood, III, 124.
King, young, nice about choice of wife (or his guardians), and the princess proposed to him won with difficulty, II, 51-5; IV, 463 b.
The King and the Barker, rhymed tale, V, 68, 69 n., 78.
The King and the Cobbler, a prose history, V, 74, and n.
The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Dodsley’s drama, V, 75.
King Alisaunder, romance, V, 297. See Alexander.
King Edward and the Hermit, rhymed tale, V, 72, and n.
King Edward Third and the Shepherd, rhymed tale, V, 71, 72 n.
King Edward the IIIJth and a Tanner of Tamworthe, A merye, pleasant, and delectable history betwene, V, 68, 81.
King Heiðrekr and Gestr, their riddle-contest, I, 405, and n.
King Henry II and the Abbot, story in Giraldus Cambrensis, V, 72.
King Henry II and the Miller of Mansfield, V, 69, and n.
King Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of Reading, The pleasant History of, I, 404.
King Horn, gest, I, 188-91, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401; V, 287.
King John and the Bishop, similar tales, I, 405-10; II, 506 f.; IV, 459 b; V, 216 a.
King Orfeo, romance and ballad, I, 215 ff.; II, 500; III, 502; IV, 451; V, 211.
King Rabssaldschal and his minister’s daughter-in-law, Tibetan tale, I, 12 f.
King Ramiro, Southey’s ballad, V, 4 n.
Kinge and Miller, V, 69 n., 84.
King’s armor, knight’s wearing it in battle, III, 283 a; V, 297 b.
King’s receivers plundered by Robin Hood, III, 229.
See Robin Hood and Queen Katherine.
The King’s Son, Kraljev sin, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.
Kings and Queens of England:—
Charles I, IV, 56, 58-60?
Edward I, III, 43, 257; V, 69.
Edward II, III, 43, 55.
Edward III, III, 282, 284, 286 f.; V, 71, and n.
Edward IV, V, 68, 77, 83.
Edward VI, III, 378.
Edward, III, 73, 75, 78; V, 72.
Henry II, III, 257-64; IV, 498 f.; V, 69, 72 f., 84, 242.
Henry III, III, 236-9.
Henry IV, III, 21, 310, 313 (see 304); V, 67, 75.
Henry V, III, 21, 321-6.
Henry VII, III, 328, 331-3, 356.
Henry VIII, I, 404; III, 198-207, 335 f., 338 f., 342 f., 345, 348, 350-52, 354-6, 358-60, 373-7, 401; IV, 503, 506 f.; V, 74, 245 f.
Henry, IV, 17-22.
James I of England and VI of Scotland, III, 442-6, 448-50, 452-6.
James II of England and VII of Scotland, IV, 111-15.
John, I, 410-14.
Richard I, III, 220, 223, 227, 229-32, 508 b.
Richard III, III, 331-3, 356.
William III, V, 74.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II, III, 257-64; IV, 498; V, 241.
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I, III, 257.
Elizabeth, III, 406.
Jane Seymour, III, 372-6; V, 245 f.
Katherine, III, 198-204, 206 f.
Kings and Queens of Scotland:
Alexander III, II, 19.
David Bruce, III, 284-7.
James I, III, 309, 313 (see 304); V, 73 n.
James III, II, 19.
James IV, III, 351 f., 355, 359; V, 187 f.
James V, I, 404; III, 364-71, 411; V, 73 n., 74, 109.
(See James I, II, of England).
Margaret (James IV), III, 351 f.
Mary Stuart, III, 378, 381 f., 384-404, 424, 426, 442, 444, 446; IV, 508-13; V, 246 f.
(Stuarts:—
Charles I, IV, 55 f.
James Francis Edward, IV, 116, 118-23; V, 255.
Prince Charlie, IV, 55-57, 60; V, 252.
Captain Stuart, IV, 109.
Lord Thomas Stuart, IV, 425).
Kinmont, Will Armstrong of, III, 469 ff.
Kiósut, Bulgarian tale, V, 281.
Kiss of courtesy, II, 435;
three kisses, to disenchant, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b, 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290.
Kissing of fairies, etc., puts one in their power, I, 322, and n., 325.
Kit o Thirske, a pedlar, beats Robin Hood in fight, III, 172.
Kitchie boy in ballads, II, 102, 114; IV, 403-5 (405, footboy), 407; V, 34-8, 277 f.
Klephts, III, 49;
Giphtakis, III, 54;
Dimos, III, 104.
Die kluge Bauerntochter, kluge Dirne, kluge Hirtentochter, tales of The Clever Wench, I, 8-12.
Knife which will serve four-and-twenty men at meat all at once, I, 266;
knife lost, figuring a lover, III, 501 a;
sheath and knife for mother and child, I, 183 f., 186; V, 210.
Knight who has forced a woman, to marry her if bachelor, be hanged if married, II, 460 f., 464, (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.
The Knight of Curtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, romance, V, 33.
Knight of the Swan, Elias, III, 515 b.
Knighthood, distraint of, III, 51, 58.
Knots loosed in Scotland at marriage ceremony and at the approach of parturition, so among Laps and Norwegians, I, 85.
Koadalan, Breton tale, I, 401, 402.
Kongen og Bonden, Danish tale, V, 74.
König Artus mit der Ehbrecher-brugk, Historia of Hans Sachs, I, 267.
König Rother, I, 197; IV, 463 b; V, 2.
Der Königssohn und der Bartlose, Greek tale, V, 281.
Korolevič i ego Djad’ka, The prince and his Guardian, Russian tale, V, 281.
Korrigan, Breton fairy, refused by man whom she asked to marry her, gives him the choice of dying in three days or languishing seven (three) years, I, 379.
Kraljev sin, The King’s Son, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.
Kranzsingen, riddles, I, 2 n.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Kron, das vasnachtspil mit der, I, 266.
Die Krone der Königin von Afion, meistergesang, I, 267.
Kudrun, II, 137 b.
See Gudrun.
Kullervo, story of, in Kalevala, I, 445.
Kung Lindorm, Swedish tale, I, 290 n.
Die Kunigin von Frankreich, dy der Marschalk gegen dem Kunig versagen wart, u. s. w., meisterleid, II, 40.
Diu Kunigin von Frankrich und der ungetriuwe Marschalk, German metrical tale, II, 40.
Den kydske Dronning, poem of Jeppe Jensen, II, 42.
Kyng Alisaunder, romance, II, 511 b; III, 306; V, 297.
Kyng of Tars, romance, II, 511 b.
Kyng Orfew, romance, I, 216.
Kynge Henry the IIIJth and the Tanner of Tamowthe, The story of, V, 67.
Kytice z básní, Polish tale, V, 60 b.
La Fontaine, I, 265; III, 258; V, 13.
The Lad with the Skin Coverings, Gaelic tale, V, 216 a.
Lady goes in search of lover; warned by Billy Blin or fairy that that very day or the morrow is to be his wedding day, I, 456;
lady leaps the castle-wall and is caught by her lover, II, 407, 409 f., 413;
lady solicited by knight discovered to be his sister, II, 481.
Lady Bessy, a ballad-history of Henry VII’s compassing the crown of England, III, 331, 354 n., 378.
Lai de Doon, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.
Lai de Guigemar, IV, 377.
Lai d’Ignaurès, V, 34.
Lai de Lanval, I, 339; II, 510 b.
Lai d’Orphée. See Lay of Orfeo.
Lai de Tydorel, II, 505.
Lai d’Yonec, V, 39.
Lai de l’Espine, II, 500 a, 511 a.
Lai del Fraisne, II, 67 f.;
old English version, Lay le Freine, I, 216; II, 67 n.
Lai du Corn, I, 262 f.; II, 43 n., 511 b.
The Laird’s Jock (probable nephew of Johnie Armstrong) III, 462 f.;
rescues Jock o the Side, 479-83.
Lancelot, the Dutch, I, 260.
Lancelot, the French prose, I, 257 n., 267.
Lancelot, Sir, I, 295.
Lancilotto del Lago, I, 267.
Landres rímur, II, 40.
Lanet, I, 261, 266 f.
Lanethen Mantel, meistergesang, I, 261, 267.
Lanzelet, of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, I, 260, 308, 338.
Lass o Livingston, a song, IV, 232 n.
Last word, importance of getting, when contending with mischievous personages and in wit-contests generally, I, 11, 20-2, 485; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Launfal, I, 320 n., 339; II, 510 b.
Lay of Orfeo, I, 216; II, 500 a.
Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, Roxby’s, IV, 25.
Layamon, I, 67 n.
Lazarus.
See Dives and Lazarus, No 56 (II, 10 ff., etc.).
Leaf sent down a stream by a maid to warn mother, sister, that she is in danger, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Learning unco lair (lear), II, 118 f., 174, 178; III, 385; IV, 411; 467.
Leather, corpses enclosed in, III, 352 f.; IV, 507 a; V, 298 a.
Left shoulder.
See Shoulder.
Legenda Aurea, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505 a; II, 235, 507 a; III, 51, 294 n.
Legitimacy of children, test of, by swinging or dipping them in the Rhine, I, 271 n.
“Lenore,” ballads and tales, I, 487 n.; V, 59-67, 303 b.
Leper, black beggar, young lad, thrall, scullion, dwarf, put into noble lady’s bed, or introduced into her chamber, to incriminate her, II, 39-42, 44, 47.
Leprosy, blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, 285.
Die Lerche, Kirghish lay, II, 506 b.
Leys, Baron of, ballad, IV, 355 ff.
Libeaus Desconeus, romance, I, 308; V, 290 a;
its relations to the ballad of the Earl of Westmoreland (No 177), V, 299 b.
Liddesdale, Knight of, ballad, III, 288.
The lie freely given in ballads, III, 367; V, 298 a.
Light kindles where innocent blood falls, I, 172; II, 39 b; V, 287 a.
Lilies spring from innocent man’s grave, I, 143.
Lilliard at Ancrum Muir, III, 306.
Lin, Linn, etc., stock ballad-locality.
See Lin, in the Glossary, V, 354.
Lincoln, Linkum, stock ballad-locality.
See Linkum, in the Glossary, V, 543.
Lindsay.
See under Family Names.
Lind-worm offers gifts to persuade a young woman to become his love, I, 314.
Lion killed by Sir Cawline without a weapon, by thrusting mantle in lion’s mouth and holding him to the wall, II, 60;
tearing out of lion’s heart by Richard Cœur de Lion, III, 508 b;
London Prentice, the hearts of two lions, III, 508 b;
Cuculin pulls liver and lights out of the throats of two lions, IV, 463 b.
Lions in Scotland, II, 407, 409; III, 517 b.
Little Billee, Thackeray, I, 457 n.; IV, 370 n.
The Little Boy with the Secret and his Little Sword, Magyar tale, I, 11 n.
Little John:
is Robin Hood’s principal comrade, III, 41, 56 ff.;
brings in the knight to Robin Hood’s lodge, 57;
is lent to the knight as servant, 60;
lent to the sheriff, whom he plunders and decoys into the hands of Robin Hood, 63-66;
brings in the monk, 67 f.;
takes part in the sheriff’s shooting-match, is wounded in the subsequent fight and carried off by Much, 70 f.;
roughly treated by Robin Hood, leaves him, and is made prisoner by the sheriff, 92;
rescued by Robin Hood, 94;
quarreled with and struck by Robin Hood, leaves his service, 97;
is the only man that has his wits and courage when Robin Hood is taken prisoner, 98;
kills the monk who has informed against Robin Hood, and rescues his master, behaving with singular nobleness, 99 f.
See, also, 124 f., 127.
Later ballads:
beats Robin Hood in a fight and is taken into his troop, III, 135;
other fights of his, 137 (see, also, 228);
Little John disguised as a beggar attempts to join himself to four beggars, is ill received by them, beats them and takes £603 from them, III, 190;
Little John finds his match or superior, III, 109, 130, 155, 166 f., 169, 171.
Little John appears in the May-game, not apparently in the morris-dance, III, 44-6.
Livingston. See under Family Names.
Loan miraculously restored, III, 52 n.; V, 297 a.
Localizing of ballad-stories, I, 24, 99, 173, 210, 340; II, 264, 321; V, 287 a.
Locksly, Nottinghamshire, the birthplace of Robin Hood, III, 215.
Logan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, a song, IV, 184 n.
Logie, Laird of, III, 449 ff., 520; IV, 515 f.; V, 299 f.
Long Lonkin, tale, V, 295 b.
Lord Derwentwater’s Goodnight, ballad by Robert Surtees, IV, 116.
Lord Livingston, Pinkerton’s ballad, IV, 432.
Loudon Hill, ballad, IV, 105 ff.
Loudoun Castle, III, 435-8.
Lousing of knight by maid, I, 27, 28, 32, 37, 46, 487, and n., 488; IV, 440 b; V, 285 a.
Lovely, Leeve, London, III, 306.
Lover runs mad after the death of his mistress, II, 110, 124;
throws himself into bonfire after his mistress has been burned, II, 115, 121;
woman goes mad after lover and husband have killed one another, II, 130 f., 133;
after the death of lover, 169.
Lover’s tryst with a lady anticipated by a low fellow, I, 137-41.
Lovmand, Lagman, representative of Horn in Danish and Swedish ballads, I, 193 f.
The Lowlands of Holland, a song, II, 156, 317, and n.; V, 229 b.
Loxly, assumed, or secondary, name of Robin Hood, III, 197 f., 201, 209.
L.P., signature of No 147, III, 208, 210; III, 518 a, 519 a; indicating Laurence Price.
Lucian, De Luctu, II, 236.
Ludie, daughter of the emir of Orbrie, V, 6.
Ludus Sancti Jacobi, Provençal mystery, I, 238.
Lunet, Laneth, I, 261.
Der Luneten Mantel, fastnachtspiel, I, 261, 267.
Lyne, brig o, II, 290.
Lynn, stock ballad-locality.
See Lin in the Glossary, V, 354.
Mabinogion, I, 210, 266 n., 279 n., 281 n.; II, 51; V, 24 n., 216 a.
Mable, Book of, a prophetical book, III, 420, 422.
Macaire, romance, II, 40.
Macdonald.
See under Family Names.
Macgill of Lindores fights an Italian gladiator, II, 378.
Macgregor.
See under Family Names.
Madel, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 67.
Madonna substituted for Lazarus in the legend of Dives and Lazarus, II, 10;
Madonna and Jesus, III, 507 b.
Magdalen, legend of, I, 228 f.;
in southern ballads, I, 231 f., 504 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a;
singular episode from, in Golden Legend and in Digby Mystery of Mary Magdalene, I, 245 n.;
legend of Magdalen blended with story of the Samaritan woman and with that of the Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a.
Mágus saga, I, 283 n.
Mahābhārata, II, 495; V, 294.
Maid cuts off her pap to release a man from a serpent and heal the wound made in his body, the pap grows apace when she bears a son, V, 177;
maid leaps from castle wall into lover’s arms, II, 410, 413;
maid solicited by a man tricks him, and when safe jeers at him, II, 480-93;
maid (noble), to vex knight who has been adjudged to marry her, pretends to be a carl’s daughter, beggar’s daughter, II, 462-4, 467, 469 f., 471 f., 473 f., 476; IV, 494; V, 238 f.;
maid who has eloped with a pretended lover forced by him to strip, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496 b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442;
maid will not give her faith to two brothers successively, I, 89, 91, 376, 378 n.
Maid Marian, in ballads, III, 43, 46;
simply mentioned, 198, 209;
disguised, fights with Robin Hood disguised, 219;
in May-game and morris, 44-6;
in the plays of The Downfall and the Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, 46, 519.
Mallet, David, and his Margaret’s Ghost, II, 199 f.; V, 294 a.
Malleus Maleficarum, I, 489; III, 18.
Malory’s King Arthur (Morte Darthur), I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, 289 b; 298 a.
Man in danger of his life dressed by landlady as woman and set to baking, IV, 151-4;
man preparing to hang himself finds money, leaves the rope, with which the owner of the money hangs himself, V, 13;
man who flies from home on account of enormous crime, in his desperation commits his relations to miserable fates, I, 169 f., 445;
man who has assaulted maid, to marry her, if bachelor, be hanged, if married, II, 460 f., 464 (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.
Mandeville, Sir John, his (fictitious) Voyage and Travel, I, 308; III, 501; V, 209.
Les Manteaux, Caylus, I, 257.
Der Mantel of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 259 f.
Le Mantel Mautaillié, fabliau, I, 257.
Mantle and costumes enclosed between two nut-shells, I, 260, and n., 271.
Mantle, as chastity chest.
See The Boy and the Mantle, No 29, I, 257 ff., etc.;
Gaelic ballad of the mantle, I, 261 f.; V, 289 a;
the mantle of Karodes, I, 261.
Mantle Rhymes, see Skikkju Rímur, I, 264 n.
Már fights when both his hands are off, IV, 502 a.
Margaret Twynstoun, Twinslace, Vinstar, Weiksterne, frees her lover, Wemyss of Logie, condemned to death, by taking him through the royal bedchamber and letting him down from a window, III, 449 f., 452-5.
Margaret’s Ghost, David Mallet, II, 199 f.; V, 294 a.
Le Mari Confesseur, conte of La Fontaine, III, 258.
Marie de France,
Lai del Freisne, II, 67 f.;
Lanval, II, 510;
Guigemar, IV, 377;
Yonec, V, 39.
Marineo, Lucio, I, 238.
Maríu saga, I, 98; III, 52 n., 240.
Markenfield (Martinfield), Thomas, III, 418-22;
knows every banner, whether any man he has laid eyes on is friend or foe, can speak any language, and has the gift of prophecy, 419 f.
Marko Kraljević, II, 357; III, 499 a, 507 b; IV, 463 b.
Marr, house of, IV, 157.
Marramiles, one of Arthur’s knights, I, 279, 284, 287.
Marriage ceremony interrupted by lover, who takes the bride, IV, 412-14.
Marriage, forced, justified as happiest, IV, 244.
Marriage:
maid to wait, lover absent, seven (eight, nine) years and not marry, I, 189 f., 192-4, 459, 502 b;
maid and man parting, neither to marry for seven years, I, 191 n., 464 f., 473, 477, 480; II, 508; IV, 461;
man gives his troth to woman to marry no other for seven years, I, 469 f.;
man parting with his wife engages her not to marry again for seven years, I, 195 f., 198, 200 n., 462 (three cases);
for three, five, six, eight, nine or twelve years, nine years and nine days, year month and day, I, 194, 197, 199, 200 (and 499), 461;
Epirot and Albanian custom of betrothing or marrying early in youth and parting for long periods, I, 502.
Marriage, second, of wife prevented by sudden (often miraculous) return of husband, I, 194-200, 502 f.; II, 499 b; III, 501; IV, 450 b; V, 210 b;
betrothed maid arrests marriage of lover to another woman, I, 502 f.
Marriage-contract, seigneur miraculously conveyed home on the eve of his wife’s marrying identifies himself by producing one half of his marriage-contract, which fits the other half left with his wife, II, 499 b.
Marriages, unequal:
serving man preferred by Lord Arundel’s daughter to Lord Phenix, II, 441-55;
lady refuses nine gentlemen for servant-lad, ploughman, IV, 172 f., 522; V, 255;
Earl of Wigton’s daughter marries footman, IV, 292-9; V, 270;
lady of birth and fame loves a kitchenboy, IV, 403-8; V, 277 f.
Martial, Epigrams, IV, 186.
Mary, Mild, II, 309, 315;
Mary Mild, Myle, Moil, II, 72; III, 386, 395 f., 398 a; IV, 507 f., 510 f.;
Mary Miles (corruptly), IV, 511;
maidens mild, II, 312, 314, 316; V, 227.
Masenžny Dzjadok, White Russian tale, V, 281.
Mass, forced, exacted by Robin Hood, III, 192, 199, 202, 228.
Massinger, The Picture, I, 269.
Matthew, apocryphal Gospel of, I, 271; III, 1, 2 n., 7.
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, II, 37, 143; III, 235, 241, 519.
Matilda Fitzwalter, Maid Marian, III, 56 n., 214, 218, 519.
Matildas, three, popularly supposed to have been persecuted by King John, III, 519.
Maximilian II (Emperor) and a charcoal-burner, Bohemian tale, V, 75.
Maxwells:
affray with the Johnstones, III, 485;
feuds with the Johnstones, IV, 34-8;
Lord Maxwell kills Sir James Johnstone, IV, 35;
Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight, ballad, IV, 34 ff.
See under Family Names.
May-game, III, 44-46.
Meilyr, story of, in Giraldus Cambrensis, his ability to expose lies, I, 320 n.
Meisterlieder der Kolmarer Handschrift, I, 269, 270.
Meldrum, Squire, III, 306 n.
Mellerstain, Laird of, ballad, IV, 281 f.
Mélusine, romance, V, 226 a.
Mem and Zin, Kurdish poem, I, 98.
Memering, Mimmering, Mimmer, Mimecan, smallest of men, champion of Gunild, II, 34-8.
La menta y’l Gaitx, Catalan tale, n, 510.
Merfolk apt to be ferocious, I, 366 n. (see 365 b, 366 a).
Merlin, Roman de Merlin, I, 257 n.; II, 113; IV, 454 a (English prose romance);
(in Arthour and Merlin), IV, 479 b.
Mermaid, sight of, bad omen for ships, II, 19, 29 f., 32, 510 b; V, 149-52;
one has betrayed seven ships, II, 19.
Mermaiden affects man with some mortal ailment, I, 387-9 (probably incited thereto by his inconstancy: see I, 372).
Merman entering church, all the images turn their backs; when woman who has perforce been the merman’s consort enters church, everything in it bows, I, 365.
Merman takes maid (princess) to the sea-bottom, where she lives some eight years and has children; hearing the bells of home, she longs to go to her mother and is allowed to pay her a visit, taking her children with her; merman comes for her, she refuses to return; merman says they must divide the children, three and three each, and half of the seventh, I, 364 f.;
merman tears the children to pieces and hangs himself, 366.
See Dwarf-king.
Merman’s human wife, allowed to visit her mother, must not bow when the priest pronounces the holy name, or make an offering, I, 364;
must not stay for the benediction, 366.
Message (deceptive) from dying man or woman to father, mother, etc., or prohibition of information to these of fact or manner of death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460 a, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.
Message repeated, II, 265 f., 268 f., 270, 272, 366;
message sent down a stream by a leaf, or linden shavings, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Messer Guiglielmo Rossiglione and Messer Guiglielmo Guardastagno, Boccaccio’s tale of, V, 33.
Messer Torello, Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197.
Messire Gauvain, ou la Vengeance de Raguidel, romance, I, 257 n., 260; II, 51.
Mestermø, Norse tale, Asbjørnsen, I, 461 n.
Metyard, archer’s, III, 103 n.; V, 297 a.
Midge, the Miller’s son, III, 202, 204.
See 197, and Much.
Mikkels Arvegods, I, 144 b.
Mild Mary.
See Mary.
Milk running from reputed maid’s breasts, I, 102 f., 179, 363.
Milk, wash my son in, I, 71, (and lay him in silk) 74, 79 f., (and dress in silk) 221; II, 89, 91, 100, 408, 425, (and row in silk) 426.
Les Mille et un Jours, I, 282, 283 n., 417; II, 43 n., 499; V, 13.
Les Mille et un Quart d’heure, Contes Tartares, V, 13.
Miller, monk, without cares, sans souci, ohne Sorgen, utan all sorg, senza pinseri, pensà, sem cuidados, I, 408 f.; II, 507.
Miller and King, V, 69 n.
The Miller of Mansfield, in Sherwood, and Henry the Second, King of England, The Pleasant History of, V, 69 n., 84.
The Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood and K. Henry the Second, etc., a pleasant new ballad of, V, 69 n.
Millers, priests, shepherds, etc., nothing else left in England, at epoch of Durham and of Flodden Field, III, 282, and n., 284-6, 352.
Mills which grind sugar and cinnamon, mace and cloves, I, 113;
cinnamon, II, 65.
Milon, steward, false accuser of Olif, wife of King Hugo, II, 39 f.
Mimecan, dwarf, champion of Gunhild, II, 37 f.
Mint cursed for not concealing Joseph and Mary, II, 8 n.
Miracle de la Marquise de Gaudine, II, 42.
Miracles. See Light, Fountain, Lilies.
Miracles following the murder of a Christian boy by the Jews, III, 235, 237-40, 244 f., 247 f., 252; V, 241;
the desecration of the Host, III, 240, 242 n.
Miracles of the Virgin, II, 7 n., 8, 13, 16, 42; III, 52, 239 f.; V, 23 n.
Un Miracolo di tre Pellegrini, play, I, 238.
Miragaia, romance of Almeida-Garrett, V, 6.
Mittagsfrau, I, 484 a.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, Noon-sprite.
Mitton, bailiff of Shrewsbury, knows no king but him that wears the crown, III, 332 f.
Modi of Reynes, accepted suitor of Rymenhild, I, 189.
Modun, Moging, to marry Rimild, Riminild, Horn’s love, I, 191 f.
Money given by maid to lover with whom she is eloping, I, 183; II, 369, 371, 406 f., 410.
Monk, miller, without cares, I, 408 f.; II, 507.
Monmouth, Duke of, IV, 108-10.
Montrose, IV, 51-3, 55 n., 57, 77-9.
Moon, new, with old moon in her arm, sign of storm, II, 20-27, 29, 30.
Moradbak, l’histoire de, I, 11 n.
Moran (Murando), Piedmontese representative of young Beichan, I, 462.
Mordred, Arthur’s nephew, his death, V, 298 a.
Moringer, Der edle, I, 196, 459; V, 291 b.
Morris dance, III, 44 f.
Morte Arthur, II, 510 b.
Morte Darthur, Malory, I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, 298 b, 298 a.
Morton, Earl of, III, 443, 445 f.
Möttuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Mourning, excessive.
See Tears.
Le Moyen de parvenir, III, 159.
Much (the Miller’s son), an original comrade of Robin Hood, III, 56, 59 f., 66, 70;
carries off the wounded Little John on his back, 71; 97, 99;
companion with Little John in killing the monk and the rescue of Robin Hood, 98-100;
Midge, the Miller’s son, III, 197, 202, 204;
Much the Miller’s son, made one of the party that rescue John o the Side, III, 478 f., 483.
La Mule sanz frain, fabliau, I, 417 n.
Der Müller ohne Sorgen, I, 409. See Miller.
Mummers’ play of St. George, V, 291.
Munday, A., his play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 46, 129, 179, 519 b; V, 100;
his pageant Metropolis Coronata, V, 297 a.
Munday, A., and Chettle, H., play of The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 129, 519 b.
Murder, compensation in money for, II, 297 f.;
disclosed by harp or fiddle made or furnished from parts of the body, or by pipe made from bone, or from plant growing from the body, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9; V, 208 b, 286 a.
Murder, revenge for, II, 297 f., 300 f., 304-7.
Murdered boy appears immediately as bird and reveals that his brother had killed him, I, 126.
Murdered man’s body will emit blood upon being touched or approached by the murderer, II, 143.
Murray.
See under Family Names.
Murray, Bonny Earl of, murder of at Donibristle, III, 447-9, 456.
Murray, The Outlaw, ballad, V, 185 ff.
Murray, Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447.
Murray, Morrow==Moor, black, V, 189 n.
Music, harp, pipe, flute, song, powerful effects of, on animate and inanimate nature, II, 137;
soporific influence, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21; V, 220 b, 293 a;
music, seductive, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17; 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 367, 485; IV, 441; V, 285.
Mužíčenko s Kulačenko, The little Peasant, Russian tale, V, 281.
Mythical interpretations of the story of Adam Bell, etc., and of Robin Hood, III, 21, and n.; 47 f., and notes.
Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I, 265 n.; III, 498 a.
Mærþöll, Icelandic fairy tale, I, 392.
Naisi (Naois) and Deirdre, Gaelic story, III, 498 b.
Naked man, injured husband will not kill a, II, 245, 247-9, 251, 253-6, 258; IV, 477 f.
Naming, enfeebling or destructive effects of, on men engaged in fight, on the devil, trolls, nixes, the horse Blak, a berserkr, the avenging sword, enchantment, etc., I, 3, 5, 89-92, 95 f., 489 b; III, 498 a; IV, 443 a; V, 207 b, 285 b.
Nashe, Thomas, III, 461.
Nasr-eddin Hodja, Les plaisanteries de, Turkish tale from, I, 410.
Neh-Manzer, ou Les Neuf Loges, Persian tale, I, 489 a.
Nereid, captured by resolute perseverance, despite changes of shape, I, 337.
Nereids, Greek, likeness to northern elves and fairies, I, 314;
euphemistic titles for, ib., and n.;
special trees endanger taking by, for those who lie under them, I, 340.
Net, riddle of: if net has taken fish, lady has been unfaithful, I, 191 n.
Neville.
See under Family Names.
Newborn (unborn) children speak, III, 367, and n.; IV, 507 a.
Nibelungenlied, II, 143, 236.
Nicodemus, gospel of, I, 239, 240 n.
Nighean Righ fo Thuinn, The Daughter of King Underwaves, Gaelic tale, I, 297 f.
El niño de Guardia, El santo niño de la Guardia, III, 241 b; IV, 497 a.
Nisami, his poem of The Seven Figures or Beauties, I, 417.
Nix killed by maid with a knife, I, 23 n.
No Song, no Supper, musical entertainment, by Prince Hoare, V, 96.
Noble, Hobie, ballad, IV, 1 ff.
Nonplussing:
fool wins princess by dumfounding her, I, 20, 418 a, 485 a; II, 507 b;
carlin foiled by boy getting the last word, I, 20; III, 496 a;
Fin by Harpkin, I, 21;
fause knicht (devil) by boy, I, 22, 485 b;
king’s son by Tsano d’Oymé, IV, 440 b.
Noon-sprite, German, I, 484 a;
Slavic, IV, 440 b.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν and Mittagsfrau.
North side of burial grounds for unbaptized children, II, 498.
Northumberland, the betrayal of the Earl of, III, 409, 411-14.
Norton, Christopher, III, 404 f.
The Nortons, their part in the Rising in the North, III, 403-6;
the father and two of the sons go to the Low Countries, 418;
the father and four sons said to accompany the Earl of Westmoreland to Spain, 419, 421.
Number riddles or songs, I, 416, and n.
Numbers, favorite:—
Seven.
Seven years (service, absence, penance, etc.), I, 41, 69, 72 f., 77, 189 f., 192, 194-6, 198, 202, 204-6, 211, 224 f., 229-32, 255, 285, 323 f., 342, 344-6, 350, 354, 366, 432, 462, 464 f., 469 f., 473, 475, 477; II, 52, 138, 159, 162 f., 166, 207-9, 233, 283, 500; III, 23, 189, 371, 441, 504; IV, 287, 290 f., 363, 366 f., 433, 454-6, 458, 461; V, 207, 212, 219;
seven brothers, I, 92, 94, 100-4, 107, 251, 433, 492; II, 158, 160-2, 165, 170, and n., 189, 201, 358 f., 361 f., 364, 366, 425; IV, 151, 468, 483; V, 224;
seven sisters, I, 69, 71 f., 74, 76, 80, 107 f., 314-16; II, 295, 311 f., 362, 364, 366; IV, 477, 483, 485; V, 207;
seven sons, I, 362 f., 365-7; II, 65-7, 69, 71 f., 74 f., 77 f., 80, 159, 161; V, 41, 255;
seven (miscellaneous), I, 41, 68, 70, 72, 79, 91, 94, 111, 289, 312, 362, 364, 367, 371; II, 70, 72 f., 75, 77, 79, 82, 318, 365, 370, 467; III, 3, 6-11, 65, 67, 75, 77, 78, 92, 117, 422; IV, 319, 363 f., 366, 368, 496; V, 108, 127, 158, 184, 214, 224, 240.
Twenty-four.
Four-and-twenty knights, ladies, ships etc., I, 68, 70, 330-2, 341, 343, 370; II, 86, 88, 97, 129, 132, 183, 194 f., 241, 291, 299, 312, 315, 357, 371; III, 216, 297-9, 352, 370, 433, 436; IV, 84, 157, 221 f., 226-8, 239 f., 273, 284, 317, 323, 325-7, 368, 381 f., 458, 461, 470, 472, 478; V, 41, 111-13, 117-19, 127, 221, 276.
Thirty-three.
Thirty and three horses, years, etc., I, 58 f., 212, 284, 467, 470, 472, 475, 479; II, 90, 92, 93, 95, 399, 471, 497; III, 453, 464 f., 478; IV, 146, 148, 195 f., 199, 204, 207, 371, 373, 470, 498; V, 36, 122-4, 219.
The Nutbrown Maid, English romance, I, 112; II, 84.
Nuts (walnut, hazel-nut, almond), enclosing costumes, I, 260, and n.
Oath by thorn, II, 111, 154;
by oak, ash and thorn, II, 138;
by corn, II, 144, 149;
grass and corn, II, 151.
Occleve, Thomas, De Regimine Principum, V, 71 n.
Oetavian, metrical romance, II, 33 n., 41, 510.
Ode und de Slang, tale, I, 298.
Odin, I, 13, 67, 95, and nn., 283, 404 f.
Ogier le Danois, I, 239, 275, 319, 340; II, 50; V, 243 b, 290 a.
Ogilvie.
See under Family Names.
Oh ono chrio, burden and couplets, II, 430.
L’Oiseau bleu, tale, V, 40.
Ólafr Tryggvason tries masteries with Eindriði, Eindriði to be baptized, if beaten; shoots a chessman from a boy’s head, III, 18.
Ólafs saga Helga, II, 127.
Olafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Olif, Oliva, Karlamagnus saga, accused of adultery, demands ordeal, champion fights for her, II, 39 f.;
Óluvu kvæði, Färöe ballad on her story, and Spanish prose romance, II, 40.
Olive, will not grow if planted by unchaste person, V, 289 a.
Oliver, I, 277 f.
Omens:
buttons leap from breast, flee from coat, II, 118, 121 (?), 308 (?), 327 f., 331; IV, 466;
heel, lap, came off shoe, III, 384, 386;
corks frae her heels did flee, III, 393;
horse stumbling, IV, 117, 120, 122; V, 254;
nosebleed, II, 118, 308; IV, 117-20, 122, 189, 466, 522 a;
rain upon setting out on a journey, IV, 122;
rings break from fingers, IV, 120;
burst, II, 324, 337; IV, 119, 122;
drop from fingers, II, 331; IV, 118, 122.
One shape by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291, 295; IV, 454 a, 495 a; V, 39 f., 289 b.
Ordeal by hot iron (carrying iron and walking on steel), II, 36;
walking over hot plough-shares and carrying hot irons, 38;
passing through fire in a waxed shift, or wearing a waxed shift which is set on fire, 38 f.;
walking through blazing fire in simple shift, 40;
by water, 38, 40;
being thrown into a fire of thorns, 43 n.;
sea, fire and snake-house, II, 510 b;
battle, II, 34-40, 42 f., 45-8; IV, 371-3.
Orendel, II, 127; IV, 450 b, 463 b.
Orfeo and Heurodis, I, 216.
Orlandino of Folengo, I, 407.
Orlando Furioso, I, 265; II, 113.
Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.
Orpheus and Eurydice, romance and ballad of, I, 216 f.
Ortnit und die Wolfdietriche, IV, 463 b.
Örvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n.; IV, 479 b.
L’os qui chante, IV, 447 b; V, 208 b, 286 a.
Otterburn, Battle of, ballad, III, 289 ff.;
Froissart’s account of the battle, 289-92.
Outlaws (for venison), III, 22-30, 56, 73 f., 76-8;
seven score the regular number of a band, III, 53.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 84, 99, 437.
Owain, knight, legend of St Patrick’s Purgatory, I, 306, 308.
Ox, slaughtered, comes to life, in attestation of the immortality of a murdered Christian (Torsten), I, 505 b.
The Paddo, Scottish tale, V, 201.
Pair ride (go) a long distance and never speak, I, 41-4; III, 497 b; V, 207 a, 285 a. (In French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic ballads, not English.)
Pal greive, false, I, 91 f., 95 n.
Palace of Pleasure, Painter’s, I, 269; V, 13, 29.
Palanus, L’histoire de, Comte de Lyon, from romance, II, 42.
Palmerin of England, I, 267; V, 31 n.
Pantschatantra, I, 270, 339 n., 402 n.; II, 499; V, 14, 107.
Paradise in modern Greek quite equivalent to Hades, I, 322 n.;
paradise or wonderland, maid lured away by promise of being taken to one, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a; II, 496 f.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Parents, etc., not to know of death of son, daughter, or of the manner of it, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.
Paria, Goethe’s, II, 502 a.
Parker, Martin, III, 227.
Parodies, II, 204; V, 287 a.
La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV, Collé, V, 75.
Parting, Epirot or Albanian custom of, for a long time after betrothal or marrying, I, 502 b.
Partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8;
quail plays partridge’s part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II, 509 f.
Parts exchanged in different versions of stories, man for woman, etc., I, 459; II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 b; IV, 186 a, b, 481 f.; V, 47, 213, 233 f., 296.
Passional, das alte, I, 242 n., 505 a.
Patrañuelo of Timoneda, I, 408.
Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s, I, 257 n.
Pauli’s Schimpf und Ernst, I, 407, 410; III, 53, 208; V, 13.
Pausanias, I, 84; III, 503.
Du Pauvre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
A Peat carried to school by boy as a contribution to the firing, I, 21 f.
Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, I, 392 f.
Pedlar and Robin Hood, III, 154; V, 240.
Pedlars and Robin Hood, III, 170.
Peele, George, his Edward I, III, 48 n., 54 n., 218, 257.
Peggie is over the sie with the souldier, a tune, V, 172.
Peitevin, the Jew, III, 237, and n.
Penances, singular, I, 224, I, J, 225, K, L, 230, 232; V, 212 a.
See Austerities.
Pepys, Samuel, his pleasure at hearing Barbara Allan, II, 276.
Perceforest, romance, I, 240 n., 268; V, 23 n.
Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n., 269; II, 51, 502 b, 510 b; III, 503 b, 508 a; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b;
Roman de Perceval, prose, I, 257 n.
See Parzival.
Percy.
See under Family Names.
Percy, Harry, gives Douglas and his host a draught of wine over Newcastle walls after engaging to meet Douglas at Otterburn, III, 296;
asked by his father to put off the battle in order that certain gentlemen may see it, will not, 297;
his generous lament for the death of Douglas, 309, 312.
Percy’s, Thomas, treatment of his texts, his “old copies,” II, 49; III, 461 f.
Peregrinus Compostellanus, Jesuitenkomödie, I, 238 n.
Der Peri, Siberian-Turkish tale, V, 46.
Perjuries, close grazing on, II, 35, and n., 108, 110, 158-65, 171; IV, 465, 468; V, 48, 51 f., 56.
Peter Diemringer of Staufenberg, I, 372.
Peter the Great, Tsar, III, 382 f.
Petronelle and Alphonso, tale of Gower, I, 10.
Pfaffe Âmîs, I, 406.
Die Pfeiferin, Esthonian tale, I, 124 n.
Pheron, son of Sesostris, story of, in Herodotus, I, 271; V, 212 b.
Philemon and Baucis, I, 99.
Philiphaugh, Battle of, ballad, IV, 77 ff.
Pickelheringsspiel, V, 97.
Picken, Andrew, Traditionary Stories of Old Families, V, 207.
The Pilgrim to Compostella, Southey’s tale, I, 238.
Pinkie Cleuch, Battle of, III, 378.
Pipe, fiddle, made from tree growing out of murdered girl’s grave, or from reeds from murdered boy’s grave, or from bone, bones and skin, of murdered boy, reveals the murder, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9; V, 208 b.
Piping, young man obtains from the devil the power of making women follow his, I, 47.
Pirie’s chair, the lowest seat o hell, I, 439, st. 31.
Pitto, alias Carellus, II, 39.
Placability of the King in Adam Bell, the Gest of Robin Hood, and the tale of Gamelyn, III, 22.
Plague in Scotland, IV, 76 f.
Plants from graves, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200, 379 n., 489 f., 492, 496 b, 506 a; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498 b; III, 498, 510 b, 515; IV, 443, 450 a, 465; V, 31, 207, 224, 226, 262, 285 f., 293, 295 a;
plants from graves, or from dead, with inscriptions, I, 96 f., 99; III, 239.
Pliny, Historia Naturalis, III, 503.
Pluck-buffet, III, 55, 75-7.
Plutarch, Septem Sapientum Convivium, I, 13;
Life of Numa, III, 496.
Poisoning, I, 153-65, 375, 498-501; II, 284-7, 499 a; III, 259, 261, 264, 499 b; IV, 427 f., 449 f., 498; V, 208 f., 242, 286 b, 295 a;
poisoning of young man by sweetheart, wife;
child by grandmother, stepmother, I, 152 f., 158-66, 498-501; IV, 449 f.; V, 209, 286 b;
son poisoned by mother on account of his marrying unacceptably, II, 284-7;
mother attempting to poison son’s wife, the pair exchange cups, and son is poisoned, I, 155 f.; III, 499 b; V, 295 a;
mother poisons son’s wife, I, 156 f.;
poisoning of false lover by his former mistress, IV, 427 f.;
brother poisoned by sister to remove an obstacle to her passion, Slavic and Lithuanian ballads, I, 156 b, 499 a; II, 499 a; III, 499 b; V, 286 b;
poisoning with snakes (“eels,” “small fishes”) as food or with their virus in drink, I, 153-65, 498-501; III, 499 b; IV, 449 f.; V, 209;
with the venom of a toad, I, 154, 157;
poison grains in drink given by elves, I, 375.
Poludnitsa, Russian sprite, I, 14 n.
Ponthus of Galyce, The Noble History of, prose romance, III, 179.
Porter thirty years and three, I, 284, 465, 467, 470, 472, 475, 479;
porter or warden has his neck wrung, is run through, etc., III, 25, 95 n., 100, 480, 482;
Horn throws him over the bridge, I, 190.
Posing of princess by fool (who gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b.
Potter, disguise as, assumed by Hereward, Wallace, Eustace, Robin Hood, III, 109.
Du Povre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
Precocity of body and mind in heroes and champions, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b; V, 226 a, 292 a, 295 a.
Le prêt miraculeusement remboursé, V, 297 a.
Prevarications of woman who is discovered to have been visited by a lover (not a knight, but a maid; maid wears sword? not a sword, but a bunch of keys, etc.); in tragic ballads, II, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a;
in comic, V, 88-95, 303 f.
Priests, five hundred, say mass at Durham field and afterwards take part in the fight, III, 286.
Primaleon, I, 269.
Primrose (a place), II, 212.
Prince, figuring as a menial, is successful in a thrice repeated battle, tourney, race, task, after which he is in condition to reveal his rank and history, V, 44-7.
Prince Calaf, Persian story, I, 417.
Prince Peter of Murom and his wife Fevronija, Russian legend, IV, 439 a.
Prince who invites an angel to his wedding, legend, V, 290 a.
La Princesse et sa Nourrice, Greek tale, I, 489.
Prior of St Mary abbey withstands the cruelty and greed of the abbot, III, 60.
Prodigal son recommended by his father to hang himself; the rope pulls down a concealed treasure; the prodigal reforms, V, 12 f., 19 f.;
prodigal son remembers a paper left by his father, or a key left by his mother, by which he receives money, V, 15-18.
Propertius, II, 236 n., 502 a.
Protesilaus, I, 99.
Protevangelium of James, I, 271.
Proud porter, I, 284, 464, 465, 467, 470, 472, 474, 479, 481; II, 53, 369-71, 468, 475; V, 219.
Pseudo-Matthew’s Gospel, I, 271; II, 1, 7.
Pšezpolnica, the Wendish, I, 484 a.
Punishments (unusual):
rolling down a declivity in a spiked barrel, tun set with knives, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32;
dragging in a barrel stuck with nails, V, 48;
boiling in a caldron, boiling in oil or molten lead, throwing into boiling oil, II, 321 n., 327; V, 230, 281;
half-hanging, quartering, seething in boiling lead, cutting joints asunder, and burning, V, 53;
half-hanging and seething in boiling lead, 56.
Punker shoots a coin from his son’s head, III, 18.
Pushkin, verses from The Three Ravens pass for his, I, 253.
Queen asks the lives of Adam Bell, etc., of the king, III, 28;
her extravagant partiality for Cloudesly and his family, 30.
Queen of Fairy’s beauty destroyed (temporarily) by intercourse with Thomas, I, 327.
Queen of Sheba’s hard questions, I, 404 n.
Queen releases the Laird of Logie from prison by a trick, III, 452 ff.; IV, 516; V, 300.
Queen’s Maries, III, 381, 382 n., 385 f., 388, 391-9; IV, 508-12; V, 246, 298 f.
Queens of England; of Scotland.
See under Kings.
Questions and tasks offset by other questions and requisitions, I, 6 ff., etc.
See Tasks.
Quintalin, in the saga of Samson the Fair, I, 50, 54, 259.
Rabssaldchal, King, and his minister’s daughter-in-law, I, 12.
Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Siberiens, I, 10, 418, 486; II, 506 b; V, 46.
Rævens Arvegods, III, 499.
Ragnars saga loðbrókar, I, 9 n.
The Raid of the Reid Swyre, III, 317.
The Rainbow, name of a ship, V, 143.
Rájá Rasálu, story of, V, 33 f.
Rakshas, Indian, gives riddles, I, 14.
Ramiro, King of Leon, V, 4-6; ballad of, 6.
Ransom of woman refused by father, mother, etc., paid by husband, II, 346 f.; III, 516 a; IV, 481 a; V, 231 a;
paid by lover, II, 347-54; III, 516 b; IV, 481; V, 231-3;
parts reversed, man ransomed by true-love, II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 f.; IV, 481 f.; V, 233 f., 296;
variations on this theme, III, 516 f.; IV, 481 a;
woman will dress in gay colors upon death of blood-relations, in black for husband, II, 347; V, 231;
maid imprecates curses on her relations, II, 348 b; IV, 481; V, 231 f.;
invokes blessings on lover, V, 231 f.;
ransom of five thousand, five hundred pound, ten thousand, one thousand, five hundred crowns, contributed by bystanders for a wife to save her husband’s life, IV, 127, 129-31, 133, 135, 137, 139.
Das Räthsel, tale of the Grimms, I, 417.
Räthselfragen, I, 2 n.
Räthsellieder, I, 1, 2.
Rauf Coilyear, rhymed tale, V, 69 n., 70 f., 74.
Ravnlil, false accuser of Gunild, II, 35.
Il re alla caccia, play of Goldoni, V, 75.
Li Reali di Francia, II, 68 n.; V, 284 a.
The Red Bull of Norroway, Scottish tale, I, 307 n., 461 n.
The Red Etin, Scottish tale, The Red Etin puts trying questions, I, 484 b; V, 201.
Red Rowan, III, 471, 474.
Der Reiger, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.
De la reine qui tua son séneschal, conte, I, 489.
Reinfrid von Braunschweig, I, 196, 459.
Der Reiter in Seiden, German tale, I, 47.
Rejuvenation of old woman by burning to bones and throwing bones into tub of milk, I, 507 b.
Remi, Philippe de, Sire de Beaumanor, his romance of Jehan et Blonde (Blonde of Oxford), I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.
Remorse, immediate, after a cruel deed, II, 242, 245 f., 252, 266, 271; V, 35, 37.
Renard le Contrefait, Old French romance, I, 263.
Renold, miller’s son, Reynolde, one of Robin Hood’s men, III, 54, 70.
Repetition in dialogue, I, 157; V, 286 b.
Rescue of Johnny More by gigantic uncles, IV, 398 f.
Reserve in duels of a peculiarly formidable sword, II, 35.
Reven og Bjönnen, Reven og Nils fiskar, I, 144 b.
Reviling, reproaching, scolding spirits and elves, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b.
Revolving palace, I, 277.
Rhodes, house of the, III, 428, 433;
house of Rothes, V, 247 f.
Riccio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.
Richard (Cœur de Lion), III, 220, 223, 227, 230;
the romance, I, 320 n.; II, 511 b, 513 a; III, 55.
Richarda, or Richardis, wife of the Emperor Charles III, her ordeal, II, 38 f.
Richars li Biaus, romance, III, 508 a.
Rid Square, Song of the, V, 307 b.
Riddle-craft practised by preternatural beings:
the Devil, I, 4 f. (C, D), 14; V, 283;
Odin, Thor, Vafþrúðnir, Alvíss, berggeist, dragon, rusalka, vila, rakshas, I, 13 f.;
baba-yaga, pšezpolnica, mittagsfrau, serpolnica, Red Etin, I, 484;
air-sprite, ogre, II, 495.
Riddles (songs, ballads and tales): I, 1-5, 9-11, 13 f., 404-23, 426-30, 484; II, 495, 506 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439, 459 f.; V, 205, 216 f., 283 f., 291.
Riddles:
beautiful girl not to be had by any man who cannot puzzle her father with a riddle, Gaelic tale, I, 417 b;
man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her mother’s riddles, Lithuanian tale, I, 418 f.;
riddles at marriages of Russian peasants, I, 418.
Penalty for not guessing is life, I, 10, 14, 404-6; 409, 411, 413, 447; II, 495 b, 506 b; III, 496 a; IV, 439 a; V, 205 a, 291;
forfeit of kingdom, possessions, place, paying tribute, etc., I, 10-13, 404, 406-8, 410; IV, 459 b;
to be taken off by the Devil, I, 5, 205;
by rusalka, I, 14;
rewards to guessers, I, 407 b, 409 f., 416 n.; II, 495 a;
princess requires lovers to give her riddles, those who cannot pose her to lose their heads, I, 417;
riddles to be guessed as condition of marriage, German, I, 1 f., 484 a;
Slavic, I, 2 f., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a;
Gaelic, I, 3;
riddles guessed win a husband, I, 1-5, 10, 13, 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a;
win a wife, I, 416 f., 420-23, 426-30; IV, 439 a; V, 216 f.
Riddles in the Mahā-bhārata and Kathā-sarit-sāgara, II, 495.
Riddles (Chaldean), given by wise man to the gods, IV, 439.
The Ridere (Knight) of Riddles, West Highland Tale, I, 417.
Riding into hall, knights and others, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a.
Right-hitting Brand, III, 43 b, n.; V, 297 a.
Rimild, Rimnild==Rymenhild, Horn’s love, I, 190 f.
Ring halved at parting by husband and wife (lovers), I, 194-8, 457 n., 470, 502 b, 503 a; V, 5;
such half-rings often dug up, I, 194 n.;
ring in betrothal, I, 199 a, n.; V, 287 b;
ring, or half-ring, thrown into a cup of wine drunk of by woman, serves to identify husband or lover returned after long absence, I, 190 f., 194-8, 200, 202-7, 502 b, 503 b; V, 5, 287 b;
halves of ring run together, join of themselves, I, 194 f., 198; II, 66 n.; IV, 463 b;
ring-stories, similar (not noticed in detail), I, 503 a, 508 b; IV, 450 b;
ring, or arm bent into a ring, magical revelations made by looking through, III, 411; V, 299 b;
bribing to secrecy with an arm-ring, II, 51, 54 (?).
Der Ring ehelicher Treue, German tale, I, 198.
Der Ritter Galmi mit der Hertzogin auss Britanien, play by Hans Sachs, II, 42.
Ritter Galmien, vom, volksbuch, II, 42.
Der Ritter von Staufenberg, I, 372-4, 387; III, 52 n.; V, 290 b;
after a happy and prosperous connection with an elf, marries, and dies within three days, I, 373 f.
Rizzio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.
Roads to heaven, paradise, purgatory, hell, fairy-land (some or all) pointed out by Fairy Queen to Thomas Rymer, I, 324 f., 328; IV, 454 f., 458.
See I, 359.
Rob Roy, ballad, IV, 243 ff.
Robber-ballads, klepht, Magyar, Russian, Italian, III, 49, IV, 497 a.
Robe and fee, chief-justice retained by, III, 52, 61 (sts. 93, 107).
Robert le Diablo, II, 303; III, 515 b; IV, 479 b.
Robert Earl of Huntington, Robin Hood represented as, in Munday’s play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, and in Munday and Chettle’s play of The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 46, and n., 519 b;
subsequently, in a pretended epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233, and in late ballads, II, 413 f.; III, 204, 218, 227.
The author of The Birth, Breeding, etc., of Robin Hood knows nothing of the Earl of Huntington, III, 214.
For The Downfall, etc., see III, 179; V, 100.
Robin and Marion, in French literature, III, 46.
Robin Hood:
his alleged noble extraction, III, 46, and n.;
as he appears in ballads, III, 42 f.;
historical theories about, 43;
his comrades, 43.
the ballads, dates and sorts, 42.
his band==7 score, III, 65 (185), 67, 75, 78;
100 bowmen, III, 41 n.;
300 yeomen, III, 180;
150 + 60 mentioned, III, 181;
kept 300 bowmen before his outlawry, then 100, III, 228.
beguiled and bled to death by the prioress of Kirkley, III, 78, 103, 105 f., or by a monk, friar, 226, 231.
Bishop of Ely routed by, III, 230.
his bower, III, 518 f.
builds an almshouse, III, 213;
eight almshouses, 230.
captures a bishop and takes a large sum from him, III, 192, 195;
makes him sing a mass, 192, 196, 199, 202, 204;
dance in his boots, 195.
his comrades, III, 43, and n; V, 297 a.
connection of his name with natural objects and archaic remains, III, 46 f., and notes; IV, 496 f.
his courtesy, III, 56, 58, 67, 69 f. (270-80), 74 f. (376-85), 229 f., etc.
ecclesiastics of all descriptions his chief prey (as of Gamelyn), III, 41 n., 51, 57, 67.
his epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233.
game, pageant, or the like, called Robynhode, III, 44, 518.
Gest of Robyn Hode, composition and argument of, III, 49 f.;
topography of, 50 f.
Golden Prize: forces two priests, who pretend to have not a penny, to pray for money, and finds 500 pounds on them, III, 209.
how characterized in the older ballads, III, 43.
husbandmen and yeomen favored by him, III, 57, 69, 221, 230.
identified by J. Hunter as a porter in the king’s household under Edward II, III, 55 f.
imitated by disorderly people, III, 41.
in danger from a bishop escapes to his band in the disguise of an old woman, robs the bishop of five hundred pounds, and makes him sing a mass, III, 192.
in the fifteenth century, III, 41; V, 240 a.
kills fifteen foresters when fifteen years old, III, 176.
kindness to the poor, III, 228 f.;
consideration for husbandmen, III, 57, 230.
Life of, in Sloane MS. 780, III, 46 b, n., 103, 121 b, n., 129, 173, 175.
loves no man so much as his king, III, 75.
marries Allen a Dale to his true-love in spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.
meets with his match, or is disgracefully worsted, ballads to this effect, III, 110, 123-5, 130 f., 134, 137, 140, 145, 151 f., 154, 156, 159, 165, 168, 171.
his name foisted into ballads which in no way belong to the cycle, I, 109, 302, 306, 412 f., 415-17, 421, 423.
the name Robinhood occurs 1380-81, IV, 496.
outlawed, III, 46 n., 228.
pay of his men:
twenty marks a year and two suits of clothing, III, 64 (with bounties, 75);
a noble every Sunday and a new suit every holy day, III, 126.
his piety and special devotion to the Virgin, III, 41 n., 51, 57, 59 f., 67 f., 93, 97 f.
plays, III, 41, and n., 44-6, 90 f., 108, 114 f., 122, 127 f., 134, 518 b;
plays or games of archery, IV, 496 b;
Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Nottyngham, III, 90 n.
the poor spared and befriended by, III, 41 n., 228.
Potter, Robin Hood and the, and Great Russian bylinas, IV, 497 a.
his profuseness, III, 69 f., 77, 228.
relieves an impoverished knight, III, 57-60;
will not take back a loan of £400, having been repaid by the Virgin, but gives him 400 more overpaid by the monk of St Mary, 69 f.
rescues Will Stutly, III, 16.
respect for women:
would do no harm to any company in which there was a woman, III, 41 n., 57, 109, 228;
will not suffer Little John to burn Kirklees (though the prioress has been his death), out of consideration for women, 105 f.
his spite against the clergy, reasons for it, III, 221, 228, 230.
stays with the king 15 months, sickens of the service, obtains permission to make a pilgrimage to a chapel at Barnsdale, remains in the greenwood 22 years, III, 77 f.
summoned by Queen Katherine to be of her side in a shooting-match with the king’s archers;
wins for her, III, 198-204, 206;
is graciously treated, pardoned, by the king, 200, 204.
takes gold from the king’s harbingers and presents it to the queen, III, 198, 200, 202.
theories assigning him an historical character, III, 43, 56 f.;
a mythical, III, 47 f.
turns fisherman, and takes a French ship, III, 211-13.
will not dine until he has some guest that can pay for entertainment, III, 51, 56, 58, 66 f.
will not eat or drink till he has seen a friar who, Scadlock says, will beat both John and Robin, III, 124.
will not take God (Jesus), Peter, Paul or John as security for a loan, but accepts the Virgin immediately, III, 59.
will not take small sums, or a man’s spending-money, III, 58, 66, 75.
a tune, III, 145, 150 n.;
Bold Robin Hood, a tune, III, 198.
Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters, tune, III, 133 n.
Robin Hood and Little John, a comedy, III, 134.
Robin Hood’s bower, III, 518 f.
Robin Lyth, mistaken title of Ritson’s, III, 13.
Robin’s Tesment, I, 144 b;
Robin’s Last Will, The, V, 286 b.
Robyn Hode in Barnysdale stode, mock song in The Four Elements, III, 42 n.
Rögutaja’s wife, Esthonian saga, I, 124 n.
Der Rohrstengel, tale, I, 125.
Le Roi et le Fermier, play of Sédaine, V, 75.
Le Roi et le Meunier, translation of a play of Dodsley’s, V, 75.
Le Roi Hugon, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, I, 283.
Roig, the poet, I, 238.
Roister Doister, play by Nicholas Udall, III, 294.
Roland, of the twelve peers, I, 277.
Röndólfr, IV, 502 b.
Rookhope, foray into, III, 439 ff.
Rosamonde and Élie de Saint-Gille, story of, I, 458 n.
La Rose de Pimperlé, tale, IV, 447 b.
Rose, Sir James the, ballad, IV, 155 ff.
Les roseaux qui chantent, tales, III, 499 a; IV, 447 b; V, 208 b.
Rosemunda, Lombard queen of 6th century, relation of her story to ballad of Donna Lombarda, etc., V, 286 b, 295 a.
Rosette, ugly lady in Gautier’s Conte dn Graal, V, 289 b.
Roswall and Lillian, A pleasant History of, V, 43-5;
tales resembling, 45-57, 280 f.
Rothes, house of, V, 247 f.;
house of the Rhodes, III, 433.
Rowan-tree: spot where rowan-tree chest stands not affected by witchcraft, I, 83 f.
Rune preservative of chastity, II, 506 a;
sleep induced by runes (charm), I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f.;
will controlled by runes, I, 362.
Rusalka, Russian, gives riddles, I, 14; II, 495.
Rymenhild, daughter of King Ailmar of Westerness, beloved of Horn, I, 188-90.
Sacchetti, I, 406.
Sachs, Hans. See Hans Sachs.
Sad-der, Persian, II, 235.
Sadko, story of, in Russian popular epics, II, 15, 510 a; V, 220 a.
Sagas: Egils ok Ásmundar saga, IV, 443.
Flóamanna saga, II, 35 n.; V, 275.
Friðþjófs saga, II, 376.
Gríms saga loðinkinna, I, 292 f.
Gull-þóris saga, IV, 502 a.
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, II, 35 n.; V, 298 a.
Göngu-Hrólfs saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.
Hálfs saga, I, 95; II, 15.
Heiðreks saga, V, 8.
Hemings þáttr, III, 17, 19 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.
Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 307, 315, 489 b.
Hrólfs saga kraka, I, 290 n., 297, 393, 489.
Hrómundar saga, I, 67, 95.
Karlamagnus saga, I, 275, and n.; II, 39 f.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Mágus saga, I, 283 n.
Maríu saga, I, 98; III, 52 n., 240.
Möttuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Ólafs saga helga, II, 127.
Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Ragnars saga loðbrókar, I, 9 n.
Samsons saga fagra, I, 50, 259.
Sturlaugs saga starfsama, II, 35 n.
Svarfdœlasaga, I, 96; II, 35 n.
Sörla þáttr, I, 94 n.
Þiðriks saga, I, 49, 94 n.; II, 35 n., 41; III, 16; V, 243 b.
Tristrams saga ok Ísondar, I, 98, 487.
Vemundar saga ok Vígaskútu, IV, 502 a.
Vilkina saga, III, 16.
Völsunga saga, I, 392; II, 127.
Örvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n; IV, 479 b.
Sage (or parsley) hides the Virgin from Herod, II, 8 n.
La Sage-femme et la Fée, tale, V, 215.
Saint Andrew, his legend, I, 14, and n., 484 b; II, 495 b, 507 a.
Saint Anne, I, 237; II, 379.
Saint Bartholomew, I, 14, and n.
Saint George, I, 487 n.; II, 509 a;
called Our Lady’s knight, III, 294, 297, 520 a; IV, 499; V, 244 b, 297 b.
Saint George play in Cheshire, V, 291.
Saint James, Pilgrims of, legend, I, 236-9;
miracles of, attributed to San Domingo, 238.
Saint Johannes Eleemosynarius, II, 235.
Saint Mary’s knot, III, 462 n., 465.
Saint Olof, Swedish legend of, I, 95.
Saint Oswald, IV, 463 b.
Saint Serf, I, 14 n.
Saint Stephen and Herod, I, 233 ff.
Saint Stephen, patron of horses, a stable-groom in Swedish ballads, I, 235;
his feast a great Horse Day, I, 235 n.;
this a continuation of heathenism, 236.
Saint Stephen of Hungary and Saint Gunther, I, 239.
Saint Tryphine, Breton mystery, V, 292 a.
Saint Ulrich, Slovenian ballad, I, 14, and n.
Saint Vicelin, II, 235.
Saint William of Norwich, III, 241 a; V, 297 b.
Salman und Morolf, Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517; IV, 450, 463 b; V, 3 f.
Salomon and Saturn, Anglo-Saxon, I, 2 n., 13 n.; II, 507 a.
Saltoun, Lord, and Auchanachie, ballad, IV, 347 ff.
Salve.
See Fairy salve.
Samaritan woman, story of, blended with traditions concerning Mary Magdalen and with that of The Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b;
with that of The Cruel Mother, without the Magdalen (Slavic), I, 230 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a.
Samson the Fair, saga, I, 50, 259, and n.
Samson’s, Solomon’s, and Hiram’s riddles, I, 404.
San Domingo de la Calzada, Spanish legend, I, 238.
Sången om den Friköpta, Estlander’s discussion of, IV, 482 a; V, 231 a.
Sant Oswaldes Leben, IV, 463 b.
El santa niño de la Guardia, III, 241; IV, 497.
Santo Antonio e a Princeza, Portuguese legend, II, 513 a.
Santo Stefano di Calcinaia, twentieth story of, II, 498 b.
Sark.
See Shirt.
Saxo Grammaticus, I, 67, 94 n., 323; II, 14 f., 127; III, 16 f., 411 n.
Scala Celi, III, 54.
Scalachronica, I, 261, 317; II, 19 n.
Scathelock (in all copies of the Gest but a), Scadlock, Scarlok, Scarlet, an original comrade of Robin Hood, and the most prominent after Little John, III, 56 f., 59 f., 66, 70, 92, 99, 104, 124, 129;
originally Young Gamwell (nephew of Robin Hood), according to late ballad, 146, 150;
kills one of three giants and marries a princess, 150;
finds his match, 169, 171;
identified in a life of Robin Hood with Allen a Dale, 173;
made the chief archer after Robin Hood, 197 n., 201.
Schimong, Chinese emperor, V, 226 a.
Eine schöne und liebliche History vom edlen und theuren Ritter Galmien, II, 42.
Die Schönste, Greek tale, I, 313.
Schupp, Balthasar, I, 408.
Scogin, The Jests of, I, 128 n.; IV, 497 a.
Scolding, reproaching, reviling of sprites and elves, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b;
scolding or reviling will not be endured by the better sort of these, I, 485; IV, 440 b.
Scolding woman too much for the devil, V, 107 f., 305 a.
La Scomessa, Italian tale, V, 97.
Scott.
See under Family Names.
Scott, Sir Walter (novels and poems), I, 210; II, 57, 227, 234, 512; III, 43, 367 n.; IV, 25, 106, 210, 218, 239, 244 f., 450, 463 a; V, 72 n., 74, 160.
Scroop, Lord, of Bolton, Henry, Thomas, Warden of the West Marches, III, 462, 469 f., 472-4; IV, 9.
Seals (Finns) capable of casting their skins and taking human shape, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.
Sebilla, Sibilla, romances of, II, 40, and n.
Secrets revealed (sometimes after an oath of silence) to a stone, stove, a doll, a gelding, I, 488 a; V, 48, and n., 51 f., 56.
Security: the Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f., 59 (62-6), 68 (249 f.);
God for security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.
Seductive music, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17, 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 485 b; IV, 441.
Seneca, III, 306.
Sénecé, Filer le parfait amour, I, 269.
Sercambi, Novelle di, V, 97.
Sermones Parati, V, 33.
Serpolnica, I, 484 b.
Service, fruitless, of seven years, for king’s daughter, I, 204-6, 255; V, 212 b.
Serving man aspiring to match with an earl’s daughter is strongly backed by his noble master, II, 443-5, 448-50, 453.
Seton, Bonny John, ballad, IV, 51 ff.
The Seven Figures (or Beauties), Persian poem, I, 417.
Seven Sages, Seven Wise Masters, I, 392; II, 511 b.
Seyf El-Mulook, story of (Lane’s Thousand and One Nights), II, 511 b.
Seymour, Jane. See Jane, Queen.
Shakspere,
Cymbeline, V, 23 n.;
Hamlet, V, 201 n.;
Henry the Fourth, I, III, 44 n.; II, III, 129; IV, 36;
Henry the Sixth, III, II, 181;
King Lear, II, 240; V, 201;
Merry Wives, I, 322 n.; III, 129;
Much Ado, V, 201 n.;
Pericles, I, 416;
Richard the Third, II, 143;
Taming of the Shrew, V, 201;
Twelfth Night, IV, 507 a; V, 287 b.
Shape, one by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291, 295; IV, 454 a, 495 a; V, 39 f.
Sheath and knife signifying mother and child, I, 183 f., 186; V, 210.
Shee an Gannon, IV, 479 b.
Sheet, sark, smock (for the dead), one half cambric, the other needle work, one side of beaten gold, the other needle work, one half silk, the other cambric, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471, 485.
The Shepherd and the King, broadside ballad, V, 73.
Shepherd’s daughter (pretended) persists in marrying a knight whom the king has adjudged to her, II, 459-76;
makes him think her a beggar’s brat, carl’s daughter, 462-4, 466 f., 469-73, 476.
Sheriff and outlaws (especially the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood), III, 26, 28, 57, 63-6, 70-3, 93 f., 97 f., 100 f., 111-13, 117-19, 157, 180-7, 222-4.
Ship, in a bad storm, promised that gold shall be her hire if she will behave well, gold nails for iron, IV, 379 f.; V, 276;
silver and gold bolts driven in for iron and oak wanting, IV, 381 f.;
leaking badly, silken cloath and canvass stuffed in to calk her, II, 27;
wrapped round with feather beds and canvass, or canvass, and pitched, II, 28; IV, 379-82; V, 276.
Ships, intelligent and talking, IV, 376-80; V, 275 f.;
race of, forty-five, fifty-three, twenty-one ships, and all wrecked but one, IV, 378-82; V, 275 f.;
splendid ships, I, 72, 312, 474; II, 13, 30, 217 f.; III, 340; IV, 472; V, 285;
ships stopped or endangered; sinful parties, or other persons determined by lot, being thrown into sea, or put out of the ship, or confessing, or vowing offerings, or a captive being released, the voyage proceeds, I, 244-6; II, 13-16, 510 a; IV, 452, 463 a; V, 220 a, 288 a, 292 a;
ship stopped by serpents till a holy man whose instruction they desire shall be delivered to them; he throws himself in, the ship moves on, II, 13 f. n.
Shirt, custom of maid’s making one for her betrothed, V, 284;
significance of a man’s making such a request, 284;
shirt demanded by Elfin Knight, I, 7; V, 284.
Shoes slacked to run, II, 115, 177, 257, 313, 379, 395; IV, 398;
cast off to run, II, 125, 212, 287.
Shooting from boy’s (man’s) head of apple, nut, chessman, coin, and similar feats, III, 16-21.
Shooting under hand, III, 199, 202, 204.
Shoulder, looking over the left shoulder, I, 100 (twice), 103, 464, 490 (left collar-bane), 492; III, 259, 263 f., 339, 368 f., 413, 465, 488; IV, 11, 13, 15, 17 f., 20, 52, 135, 445, 518-20. (See V, 286 a.)
Shovell, Sir Cloudesley (“Shawfield”), V, 147.
Shrift saves a ship endangered by a storm, II, 15;
sinner thrown overboard to save a ship taken to heaven by the Virgin for the shrift he has made, II, 16.
Shukasaptati, Seventy Tales of a Parrot, I, 11 n., 12 n., 13, 268 n., 270, and n.; V, 289 a.
Sibilla, wife of Charles the Great, suspected of unfaithfulness, various forms of the story, II, 40 f.
Siddhi-Kür, I, 402.
Side, Armstrongs of the, especially Jock o the Side, III, 475 ff.
Sidney’s admiration of the song of Percy and Douglas, III, 305.
Le sifflet enchanté, Le sifflet qui parle, tale, I, 493 b; II, 498 b; III, 499 a.
Sigrdrífumál, I, 392.
Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana, III, II, 127.
Simon, Simond, Peter, a noble gunner employed by Lord Howard against Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-5, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.
Simon the Foundling, Servian hero, V, 295 a.
Sinadab, story of, V, 12.
Der singende Knochen, tale, I, 125.
Das singende springende Löweneckerchen, tale, I, 307 n.
Sinkarib, Histoire de, et de ses deux Visirs, Persian tale, I, 11 n.
Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, romance, II, 499, 506, 513; III, 520;
the French romance, II, 511.
Sir Broninge, knight, I, 210.
Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel, romance, I, 209.
Sir Eglamour of Artois, romance, I, 209; II, 511 a.
Sir Egrabell, I, 210.
Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight, romance, I, 257 n.
Sir Gowther, II, 303.
Sir Hugh, ballad of A. Cunningham, II, 260.
Sir Isumbras, romance, II, 513 a.
Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad, by Michael Bruce, IV, 156. See Rose.
Sir Olaf (Oluf), and the elf, I, 374-8;
poisoned by the elf for inconstancy, 375;
is run through with a sword for refusing to consort with elves, 375;
is struck by elf to whom he has declined to plight himself (being already betrothed) and dies in a day, 375 f.;
may choose between living with the elves and dying, 377.
Sir Orpheo, Orfeo, romance, I, 216, 340, 504 a; II, 128.
Sir Perceval, English romance, II, 51.
See Perceval.
Sir Ryalas, I, 212 f.
Sir Triamour, romance, II, 41; V, 176.
Sir Tristrem, romance, I, 67, 317, 487 a; II, 127.
Sisibe, wife of Sigmundr, falsely accused of adultery, II, 41.
Sister comes every Saturday to comb the head of a brother who has been transformed into a worm, I, 315;
the same, by sister changed to a mackerel, 316.
Sister hunted to death by rival in love, V, 158.
Sisters (sister) killed or maltreated by robbers who turn out to be their brothers, I, 171-7;
Russian ballad, II, 499 a.
Skelton, John, Against the Scottes, Chorus de Dis, IV, 499 a;
Colyn Cloute, V, 100;
perhaps author of a Robin Hood pageant, III, 519 b.
Skikkju Rímur, or Mantle Rhymes, Icelandic, I, 259, 261 n., 264 n.
Skuin over de groenelands heide, III, 502.
Slangen og den lille Pige, Danish tale, I, 307.
Slaughter in large numbers of relations of lady-love by lover:
six or seven brothers and father and other kinsmen, I, 89;
father, eleven brothers, seven brothers-in-law, 91;
father and six brothers, 92;
six brothers, 94 n.;
father and seven brothers, 101 f.;
six or seven brothers, II, 170, and n. (eighteen thousand assailants, I, 91;
fourteen of father’s best men, I, 100, 108).
Sleep, induced by charms, runes, I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f.;
by runes written on sheets of a bed, 391;
by a letter inserted between sheet and coverlet, by an enchanted feather, by runes written on cushions, 392;
by a soporific pillow, I, 393;
by sleep-thorns, -pins, I, 392 f.; III, 506; IV, 459;
by strewing broom-blossoms at a man’s head and feet (on his neck), I, 394 f.;
by magic of some sort, V, 2;
by music, see Music.
Sleep: man in deep (unnatural) sleep cannot be roused by maid at a critical moment; servant afterwards repeats to him what has occurred, I, 307, and n.
Sleep you, wake you, the formula, II, 240, 513 a; III, 514 a; V, 201 b, 225 b.
Sleeping potion given to woman by lover to enable her to escape from her husband, or lover to carry her off, V, 3 f., 6 f., 280;
sleeping potion taken by maid to enable her to escape to her lover, II, 358 (and evidently intended in other copies of the ballad, though not mentioned);
given by friendly hostess, to save girl’s honor, II, 356 b;
administered to a gallant who is to pass the night with a girl, I, 393; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b.
Sleeping under trees.
See Trees.
Sługobyl, Polish tale, V, 46 n.
Small-maids Land, I, 259.
The Smith and the Demon, Russian tale, I, 507.
Solfager, Suolfar, King David’s (Sir David’s) wife, Solfot, V, 7 f., 280.
Solomon and his wife, tales of, V, 2-4, 279.
Solomon and Kitovras, V, 2.
Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517; IV, 450, 463 b; V, 3 f.
Solomon and his queen, Russian, Servian, and German tale, V, 2 f.
Solomon and Saturn. See Salomon and Saturn.
Solomon’s riddles, I, 404.
Sölvi, IV, 502 a.
Son of a king liberates a prisoner (prisoners) of his father; the service is gratefully returned in a subsequent emergency, V, 43-57.
Song (Liedlein) von dreierlei Stimmen sung by one person, I, 34; V, 285 a.
Song of the false knight (Halewijn==elf-knight) excites longing, I, 25 ff., 485; V, 285.
Song in ballad repeated, I, 478; V, 16, 51 f., 214 f., 218 f.
Songs of the Ghilanis, Persian, II, 506 b.
Soporific effect of music, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21; V, 220 b.
Sörla þáttr, I, 94 n.
Sörli, IV, 502 a.
Souling, song so called, V, 291 a.
Sovereignty, her will, is what a woman most desires, I, 290-295; V, 289 b.
Sovereignty of Erin, given by a disenchanted hag to her deliverer, V, 289 b.
Sower, Legend of the (miraculous harvest), II, 7-9, 509 f.; III, 507 b; IV, 462 b; V, 220 a.
Spectral or elvish knights, combats with, II, 56 f., 511 a; III, 508.
The Spectre Bridegroom, Cornish tale, V, 59, 64.
Spell to recall a (dead) lover: boiling a dead man’s head, bones, carcass in a pot; burning a piece of the lover’s clothing, or a cat, in a hot oven, V, 61.
Spencer, Hugh, his (ballad) feats in France, III, 275 ff.;
various historical Hugh Spensers, 276.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, I, 267.
Der Spiegel, of Meister Alswert, I, 267 n.
Ein Spiel von dem Freiheit, I, 2 n., 415.
Spiked barrel, punishment of rolling down a declivity or dragging in, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, 48.
Ein Spil von einem Kaiser und eim Apt, farce, I, 407.
Spirits, or malignant uncanny beings, baffled, by scolding, or by getting the last word, I, 20-22, 485; II, 496 b; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Spring, lady whose lover is absent is to look every day into; if she sees his shadow, he is on the point of marrying another, I, 192.
Spring wells up where innocent maid’s head falls, I, 172.
Sprites, reviling or scolding of, an effectual way of baffling them, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b;
will not be endured by the better sort of these, I, 485; IV, 440 b.
Spurningen, Norse tale, I, 418.
The Squire of Low Degree, romance, I, 255; II, 512 a; III, 501 a.
S. S., signature of No 150, III, 218 f.
Staffans-skede, diversion of Swedish boys at feast of St Stephen, I, 234 n.
Stanley.
See under Family Names.
Stephen and Herod, legend of, combined with legends of the infancy of Jesus, I, 233.
Stephening, I, 234 n.; V, 291.
Stepmother (witch) transforms maid (generally) to hideous shape, tree, serpent, fish, wolf, I, 178, 290-3, 297, 307, 309 f., 312 f.; II, 503-5; V, 214;
two maids, sisters, V, 214 f.;
maid and brother, I, 290 n., 296, 315 f., 336 f.;
two maids and brother, I, 306;
poisons child, I, 163-6; IV, 450 a; V, 209 a (see I, 154 f.).
Stev-stamme, I, 7 n.
Steven, Sir, I, 293, 295.
Steward, tutor or other servant, charged with the care of a young prince, or man of rank, forces a change of clothes and relative positions as a condition of drawing him up from a well into which the young noble had been let down by the legs (or of not drowning him in a river at which he was drinking), V, 44-7, 49, 54;
the same of a princess and her maid, 47.
Τὸ Στοίχημα, Romaic ballad, V, 21.
The Story of Conall Gulban, West Highland tale, III, 507.
Straparola, I, 401; II, 143; V, 46, 96.
Strawberry Castle, II, 118 f., 121, 286, 442, 447, 452; IV, 466 f.
Stripping of maid by pretended lover who has carried her off, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496 b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442.
Stuart.
See under Family Names.
Stumps, fighting on, after the legs had been shorn at the knee, and fighting after other mutilations, III, 306, 310, 313; IV, 502; V, 244, 298 a.
Sturlaugs saga, II, 35 n.
Stutely, Will, one of Robin Hood’s troop in later ballads, III, 135;
rescued by Robin Hood from hanging, 185.
Substitution of maid-servant (sister) for bride to conceal unchastity, I, 64-8, 70, 73; III, 497 b;
substitution of maid-servant (niece) for mistress in cases of wagers against the mistress’s virtue, V, 22-4, 27.
Subterfuges of woman questioned as to evidences of her misbehavior, V, 88-95, 303-4 (comic); II, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a (serious).
Südäi Märgän, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 486.
Suddene, kingdom of Murry, father of Horn, I, 188, 190.
Sulayman Bey and the Three Story-Tellers, V, 97.
Svarfdœlasaga, I, 96; II, 35 n.
Svend Bondes Spørgsmaal, V, 205.
The Swepstacke, The Sweepstakes, name of a ship, V, 133.
Swift, Tale of a Tub, II, 441.
Sword laid in bed between man and woman, II, 127, and n., 130, 135, 511; III, 509 a; V, 292 b;
reduced sportively to straw, II, 127 n.; III, 509 a; V, 292 b.
Sword, whetted on straw, grass, a stone, the ground, wiped or dried on sleeve, grass, before using, II, 131, 139, 159, 161 f., 166, 169, 185, 243 f., 249, 256, 261, 266, 273, 305 f., 380, 390, 393, 396, 483, 492; IV, 491; V, 37, 226 f., 235.
Sword and ring laid before maid ‘to stick him wi the brand or wed him wi the ring,’ II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.
Swords, Adelring, Sudevind, and others of superexcellent quality, II, 34, 35, and n., 50.
Swords, two in a scabbard, II, 133, 135, 245, 251, 256, 258; IV, 477.
Sworn brethren, IV, 146 f.
Syntipas, V, 13 f.
Table, drawing a, explained, V, 304 a.
Table jumped, kicked or thrown over, under the effect of exciting events or information, table furniture broken to flinders or hurled into fire, etc., I, 65, 217, 457 n., 465, 472, 475 f., 481, 502 a, b; II, 35, 94, 127 f., 128 n., 132, 205, 271, 273, 312 f., 511 b; III, 509 a; IV, 316, 345, 462, 508; V, 219, 271, 287 b, 292 b.
In Slavic ballads, bride jumps over four tables (and knocks over a fifth); husband, hearing news, jumps nine, I, 502 b; II, 511 b; III, 509 a;
person jumps seven and touches the eighth, V, 287 b.
Tales cited without title:—
Albanian, V, 47.
Armenian (==King John and Bishop), IV, 459 b;
tale or ballad, I, 490 a.
Breton, III, 504 a, 506 b, 507 a.
Esthonian, I, 308.
Gypsy (Transylvanian, etc.), IV, 459 b; V, 60.
Lithuanian, II, 499 b, 511 a.
Magyar, IV, 459 b; V, 60, 216 a.
Romaic, I, 97, 337, 401, 437, 461 n.; II, 127, 511 a; V, 39.
Roumanian, I, 85, 401.
Slavic, I, 124 f., 308, 401 f., 417, 484 a, 499 b, 507, 513 a; III, 52 n., 513 b; IV, 439 b, 440 b, 459 b; V, 2 f., 6, 46 f., 60, 74, 107, 241, 279.
Talismans:
ring with stone which by change of color, or breaking, signifies unfaithfulness of giver, I, 192, 201-7; II, 318 f.; V, 210 f.;
by rusting or dimming shows that giver is dead, I, 201;
ring which protects the wearer from all bodily harm, assures superiority in fight, doubles strength, keeps from sickness and captivity, I, 189, 190 f., 201 n.; V, 287 b;
gold-embroidered handkerchief, gold melting shows that giver is dead, I, 201;
ring, sword, chain, which will stanch blood or prevent blood from being drawn, II, 61, 318 f.; V, 183 f.;
the protective power of the ring conditional upon the wearer when in danger thinking of his leman, I, 189;
with his keeping faith, 190 f.
Talking Bird, Singing Tree, and Yellow Water, Arabian tale, I, 311.
The Talking Dish, Chinese drama, I, 126.
Tam o Lin, Tom a Lin, Tammy Linn, etc., popular verses about, I, 340; III, 505 b.
Tarlton’s Jests, IV, 495 a.
Tarn Wadling.
See Tearne Wadling.
Tasks and problems, difficult or impossible, I, 7-13, 15-20, 418, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f.; V, 205 f.;
impossible tasks propounded by man as condition of love or marriage, offset by others preliminary, equally difficult, proposed by woman, I, 7 f., 15-19, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f.; V, 205 f., 284 (an Elphin knight gives the tasks, I, 15-17;
an auld man, 18 f. (I), who represents the devil;
a dead lover, IV, 439 f., and the devil expressly, V, 283;
the maid would have been carried off had she failed). Similar requisitions, not conditional to marriage, met in the same way, I, 10, 13;
in Babylonian Talmud, V, 284;
similar performances, ostensibly undertaken, to show the absurdity of a demand, I, 10, 11;
an assertion offset by another of the same extravagance, 13;
tasks in which no one of the only possible procedures is allowed, I, 8 f., 418;
problems ingeniously solved, I, 12 f.;
tasks propounded by one king to another, king rescued from attack or from a forfeit by the sagacity of his minister or minister’s daughter, I, 11 f.;
wife won by doing riddling tasks, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 418;
dead lover propounds tasks to his true-love; if she had not “answered” well she must have gone away with him, IV, 439 f.
Taubenliebe, Albanian tale, I, 338.
Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12, 269; V, 13.
Tay, water of, I, 127, 129; II, 21, 24, 96, 314, 462, 465, 471; III, 271; IV, 98, 100, 143 f., 193.
Tchînavar, the bridge, II, 235.
Tearne Wadling, I, 294.
Tears destroy the peace of the dead, II, 228, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513 b; IV, 474 b; V, 62, 294.
Tegau Eurvron, wife of Caradawc Vreichvras, I, 265.
Teind (teene), tribute: teind taken of fairies by the fiend at stated periods, I, 328, 339, 342, 344-6, 350, 353; III, 505 a; IV, 456, 458; V, 215 b.
Telfer, Jamie, ballad, IV, 4 ff.
Tell, William, III, 16 f., 18 n.; IV, 496 b;
his apple-shot, III, 13, 21 n.;
his name, 19 n., 21 n.
Tennis-balls in the ballad of Henry V, authorities, III, 321 f.;
parallel in Pseudo-Callisthenes, 322.
Testament, oral, or last wishes, of dying person, will good things to friends and ill things to the author of death, I, 143-50, 153-6, 158-60, 162 f., 166, 496-501; II, 498 b; III, 499; IV, 449; V, 208 f.;
without animosity to author of death, I, 144, 156;
other testaments, where there is no occasion for animosity, I, 144, 496 b; V, 291 b;
parodies of these testaments, I, 144 b; III, 499 b; V, 208 b, 286;
bequest of sorrow to wife and children and a curse to mother by a man who had been instigated by her to kill brother or father, I, 169 f.
Testament of fox, robin, ass, dog, etc., I, 144 b; V, 208 b, 286.
Tests (molten lead or gold, burning with red-hot iron, cutting off little finger, etc.) to determine the reality of a woman’s apparent death, II, 359, 361, 364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, 3, 6;
other tests, III, 517 b.
See Chastity.
Thales solves riddles, I, 13 n.
Thedel von Walmoden, poem and tale, I, 199 n.
Ther wer three ravns, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
Thetis, Proteus and Nereus made submissive by maintaining a firm hold through their various transformations, I, 337, 338 n.
Thévenot, I, 240.
Thirty pieces for which Jesus was sold, legends concerning, I, 243 f.;
history of, before birth of Jesus, 243.
Þiðriks saga, I, 49, 94 n.; II, 35 n., 41; III, 16; V, 243 b.
Thom of Lyn, a dance, I, 336.
Thomas, Gospel of, II, 7.
Thomas Cantipratensis, Bonum Universale, II, 235, 513 a.
Thomas of Erceldoune, Thomas the Rhymer, I, 317-19, 321 f., 335, 340;
his prophecies, 317;
Thomas of Erceldoune and Ogier le Danois, 319, and n., 320 n., 340; V, 290 a.
Thor, I, 283 n., 419;
Thor’s Hammer, I, 298.
Thor, Tor, Herr, see Tor.
Thorkill, his voyage, and visit to Guthmund, I, 323; II, 14;
his ships stopped till three men are delivered to expiate an offence committed, II, 14 f.
Das Thränenkrüglein, tale, II, 512.
Three cries allowed a maid about to be murdered, I, 32, 37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, 207, 285 a.
Three horses, successively ridden in an emergency, of which the first two give out, the third holds out, II, 116 f., 120 f., 309 n., 313; V, 228, 262 (all three burst, II, 212).
Three hundred and sixty-five children at one birth, as punishment for slandering a woman who had borne twins, II, 67 f., n.; IV, 463 b.
The Three Ladies of Leithan Ha’, ballad of Cunningham, I, 142.
The Three Questions, a drollery, I, 418.
Þrymskviða, I, 298.
Thurston, Irish king, takes Horn into his service, offers Horn Reynild, his daughter, I, 189.
Thyme song, V, 258.
Tibullus, II, 236 n.
Time, illusion as to duration of, I, 321, and n., 328; V, 290 a.
Tiran le Blanc, romance, I, 308.
Titurel, Der jüngere, I, 98, 267.
Der todte Schuldner, tale, III, 501.
Das Todtebeindli, tale, I, 125.
Toilets, women’s, in ballads, I, 31, 54, and n.; II, 183-6, 188-91; IV, 312 f., 316 f.; V, 301 b.
Tokens sent a lady to legitimate a messenger:
mantle and ring, II, 265;
glove and ring, 266;
gloves, ring, mantle, 267;
mantle, sark of silk (sleeve sewed by her), 268 f.;
mantle, smock (sleeve sewed by her), 270;
mantle, silken sark (sleeve sewed by her), 272;
sark, shirt, shift of silk, (with sewing by her), 379, 384 f., 389, 391, 395; IV, 488 f.;
shirt from lady to man, II, 394; IV, 491.
As to shirts as tokens, see V, 284.
Tokens to identify man claiming to be husband or lover, or woman claiming to be true-love, II, 215 f., 218-20, 222-5; III, 510 f.; IV, 473; V, 225;
demanded by mother of woman professing to be her daughter, V, 65 n.
Tokens sent keeper of a prisoner as warrants of king’s authority, king’s comb, queen’s knife, III, 452 (IV, 515);
king’s glove, with his hand-writing, III, 455; V, 300.
Toko’s apple-shot, III, 16.
Tollet’s painted window, III, 45.
Tom Hickathrift, V, 226.
To-names among the border clansmen, III, 461 n.
Top-castles in ships, III, 337 n., 340, 344, 349; IV, 504.
Tor, Thor, representative of Horn in a Danish ballad, I, 193;
rival, 193 f.
Torello, Messer, in Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197 f., 459.
Torrent of Portugal, romance, II, 510 b; V, 297 b.
La Tourandot, play by Carlo Gozzi, I, 417.
Towie, Castle or House, burning of, III, 424 f., 427 f.
T. R., signature of No 122, B a, III, 116;
of two copies of No 133, III, 156;
of No 169, B a, III, 371 (the last an absurd pretension).
Transformations:
maid transforms herself (or threatens to transform herself) into various shapes to escape the pursuit of a lover, who matches her at every step and finally prevails, I, 399-401, 402 f.; II, 506 b; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b; V, 216 a, 290 f.;
youth and maid (youth) pursued by sorcerer transform themselves variously, and finally escape apprehension, I, 401 b; III, 506 f.; IV, 459 b;
apprentice to a sorcerer, or fiend, pursued by his master, transforms himself variously and at last takes on a stronger shape and destroys his adversary, I, 401 f.; III, 507 a; IV, 459 b; V, 290 f.
Transformations, after extraordinary concessions, of hideous woman, into a beautiful lady, I, 289-93, 295-9, 507 a; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b;
of ugly old man to beautiful youth, V, 213.
Transformations of step-children (generally to hideous and formidable shapes, to tree, serpent, fish, wolf) by malicious stepmother, I, 178, 290-3, 296 f., 306 f., 309 f., 312 f., 315 f.; II, 503-5; V, 214 f.;
linden-worm, snake, admitted to maid’s bed turns into a king’s son, I, 298; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a;
other similar cases, V, 289 b;
witch transforms young man who refuses to be her leman into an ugly worm, I, 315.
Transformations, successive, of Tam Lin by fairies to prevent his disenchantment, I, 342, 344-9, 352 f., 355, 508; III, 505; IV, 457;
successive transformations of young girl, apparently of the same nature, I, 336 f.;
of nereid to avoid union with man, I, 337;
of Thetis, Proteus, Nereus to avoid doing man’s will, I, 337, 338 n.
Transformations:
disenchantment by a kiss, three times given (mostly) to a repulsive or formidable creature, or by the same, or by touching such, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b (partly), 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290 a;
Queen of fairies restores young man who has been transformed into a worm by stroking him three times on her knee, I, 315;
see also Transformations, 2d and 3d paragraphs, above.
Transformations from and to human shape require immersion in milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342,344; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, 39 f. (Cf. holy water, I, 346, 351.)
Traugemundslied, I, 2 n.
I tre Indovinelli, Turandot tale, I, 417 n.
Trees, special, dangerous to lie under, on account of taking by fairies, I, 216, 340, 350; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; IV, 455 f.; V, 290.
Des Tresces, fabliau, V, 22 n.
Le Trésor et les deux Hommes, La Fontaine, V, 13.
Trespassing in a wood: pretence that a maid has been doing this, I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, 367, 369, 450-3; III, 504; IV, 456 f. (a commonplace).
Die treue Frau, tale, I, 268.
Tristan, Sir Tristrem, I, 67, 98, 198 n., 264, 265 n., 284, 317, 487 a; II, 127; V, 33.
Tristan le Léonois, II, 510 a.
Tristrams saga ok Ísondar, I, 98, 487.
Les trois Frères, tale==Le Sifflet qui parle, I, 493.
Troth asked back by lover of true-love before he is put to death, II, 178;
given back to dying man by maid, V, 168;
asked back by dead lover, II, 227, 229-33.
(The process, straking on a wand, II, 230;
touching three times on the breast with a silver key, 232;
smoothing her hand on his heart, 233;
striking on the heart with a white wand, V, 168.)
Troth asked back by dead father of son, II, 512 b.
True Thomas, I, 323 f., 326, 508; IV, 455-7.
Truls och hans barn, Swedish tales (==No 14), I, 501 b.
Tsar and deserter, Russian tale, V, 74 f.
Turandot, I, 417, and n., German schwank, 418; V, 291 a.
Des Turcken Vassnachtspiel, I, 437.
The Turke and Gowin, I, 289 n.; II, 505; III, 55.
Turpin, Archbishop, I, 277.
Tutbury, bull-running at, III, 214, 217.
Tuti-nameh, Tútí Náma, I, 268; V, 100 f.
The Two Fair Sisters, ballad of Cunningham’s, I, 119 n.
Two mares, story of the, I, 11 n., 12; V, 284.
Tweed, water of, I, 129, 131, 134-6; III, 308, 311; IV, 103.
Twins an indication of incontinence in the mother, II, 67, and n., 511 a.
Tyne, water of, II, 464, 314; III, 299, 477, 480-3.
Udivitel’nyj Mužiček, The wonderful Peasant, Russian tale, V, 281.
Unco knicht==Devil, I, 5; cf. V, 283.
Unearthly beings, peril of intercourse with them, I, 322-5, 327 f.; II, 505; IV, 455, 458.
Unequal marriages, II, 441-55; IV, 172 f., 522; V, 255; IV, 292-9, V, 270; IV, 403-8; V, 277 f.
Unnatural connection, I, 185 f., 444-54; III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V, 210.
Vafþrúðnismál, I, 13, 283 n., 404.
Valerius Maximus, III, 503.
Van den verwenden Keyser, Jan van Hollant, tale, I, 408 n.
The Varietie, comedy by the Duke of Newcastle, II, 243; III, 176.
Das Vasnachtspil mit der Kron, a farce, I, 266.
Vega, Luis de la, I, 238, 239 n.
Vemundar saga ok Vígaskútu, IV, 502 a.
Der verkêrte Wirt, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.
Die verwünschte Prinzessin, German tale, I, 13.
Vesle Aase Gaasepige, Norwegian tale, I, 66, 268.
Il Viaggio di Carlo Magno in Ispagna, I, 275 n.
Vidushaka, story of, I, 200.
Die vierzig Veziere, The Forty Vezirs, Turkish tales, I, 402; V, 13, 97.
Vigoleis with the Gold Wheel, Danish romance, I, 269 n.
Vila, Servian, gives riddles, I, 14.
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum Historiale, I, 229, 237; II, 13; III, 52 n.;
Speculum Morale, I, 405 f.;
Speculum Naturale, I, 339 n.
Virgil, Æneid, III, 306;
Eclogues, I, 415 n., 437 a.
Virgil, the philosopher, I, 267, 270, 392; II, 502.
Virgilius, English story, II, 502.
The Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f., 59 (62-6), 68 (249 f.);
the Virgin finds mint, broom, chick-pea unfriendly (as to concealing her) during the flight into Egypt; sage, parsley, juniper, friendly; the swallow is friendly, the partridge, quail, beetle, hawk are unfriendly, II, 8 n., 509 f.; III, 507 b.
Les Visions d’Oger le Dannoys au royaulme de Fairie, I, 319 n.; V, 290 a.
Der Vogelritter, tale, V, 39 n.
Volch. See Vol’ga.
Le Voleur des Crêpes, French-Breton tale, III, 497 a.
Vol’ga, Volch, in Russian bylinas, V, 295 a.
Völsunga saga, I, 392; II, 127.
Völuspá, I, 21.
Vom schlauen Mädchen, Lithuanian tale, I, 10.
Vom singenden Dudelsack, Sicilian tale, I, 125.
Vom weissen und vom rothen Kaiser, Wallachian tale, I, 11 n.
Vom weissen Wolf, Lithuanian tale, I, 307 n.
Vom wilden Manne, Bohemian tale, V, 46.
Von dem Brembergers End und Tod, German meisterleid, V, 32.
Von dem König von Spanien und seiner Frau, German story, I, 268.
Von dem Mädchen das an Weisheit den Kaiser übertraf, Servian tale, I, 9.
Von einem Edelman welcher einem Abt drey Fragen aufgegeben, 1594, comedy, I, 408.
Von zwein Kaufmannen, rhymed tale by Konrad von Würzburg, V, 23.
Vows of the Heron, V, 292 b.
Wade, Weland, and Mimir Smith, I, 401 n.
Wager, to win a woman’s favor, of a man’s lands against her brother’s head, IV, 383-6; V, 276 f.;
wager of his head by a squire against a knight’s lands that the squire will win the knight’s wife, V, 25-8;
wager against a woman’s preserving her chastity (or dignity of character), strong evidence against the woman, she vindicates herself, V, 21-5.
Wager’s comedy, The Longer thou livest the more fool thou art, I, 340, 390.
Waldis, Esopus, I, 407; III, 208.
Wallace, Sir William, III, 43, 109, 211, 266-74; V, 242 f.;
distinguishes himself on the sea, III, 266;
aye a woman’s friend, III, 273;
disguises himself as a woman, III, 273 f.;
as a beggar, 271, 273;
Blind Harry’s Wallace, II, 265 f.
Walls and mouseholes, man who had killed twelve maids would be able to pass through, I, 34 n.
Walric the Heron, comrade of Hereward, III, 179.
Walter of Aquitaine, I, 95 n.; 106 f., and n., 493 a;
his worn-out charger, II, 441, 444 f., 450, 454; III, 276 f.; V, 243 b.
Waltharius (Walter of Aquitaine), I, 94, and n., 95 n., 106 f.
Waly waly, gin love be bonny, song, IV, 92 f.
Wamphray, Lads of, ballad, III, 458 ff.
Wand, silver, cast up by Northumberland as he sails away from Loch Leven, III, 413;
wand with lavrocks sitting, singing thereon, I, 201 f., 205, 503, as a present.
See Artificial curiosities.
Wand, straking troth on.
See Troth.
Wariston, Laird of, murder, IV, 28 ff.
Was ist das Schönste, Stärkste und Reichste? tale, I, 9.
Water:
lady forced to wade, steps in to the knee, the middle, the chin, I, 55 f.;
forced to swim (on horse), I, 112, 114;
woman (pregnant) follows knight (who is on horseback) through deep water, swimming or wading, II, 86, 88-90, 92, 94-7, 99, 459, 461 f., 464-6, 468, 471, 474 f., 476; III, 508 b; IV, 493; V, 221, 237;
goes into the Clyde to rescue drowned lover, IV, 190;
water comes to knee, middle, pap (neck), II, 88-90;
knee, pap, II, 94, 97;
ankle, knee, chin, II, 96; IV, 190.
Wax child to deceive woman who is delaying parturition, I, 82, 84, 86.
Ways, subterranean, to heaven, paradise, elfland, purgatory and hell (some or all), I, 324 f., 328, 359; IV, 454 f., 458.
Wearie’s Well, I, 55 f.
Webster, John, Dutchess of Malfi, IV, 117.
Wedding at kirk-door, II, 131.
Wedding procession:
bride insists on having four-and-twenty men before her, twenty (four-and-twenty?) on each side, and four-and-twenty milk-white doves to fly above her head, II, 132;
bride is promised four-and-twenty men to ride between her and the wind, four-and-twenty maids between her and the sun, four-and-twenty milk-white geese to blow the dust off the high way with their wings, II, 315;
Fair Annie going to her lover’s wedding has four-and-twenty knights by her side and four-and-twenty maids, as if she had been a bride, II, 183;
followed in some copies by four-and-twenty milk-white swans to blow the dust off the highway, II, 195 a;
four-and-twenty gray goss-hawks to flaff the stour from the road, four-and-twenty milk-white doves flying above her head and four-and-twenty milk-white swans her out the gate to lead, IV, 470.
The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, romance, I, 289 n., 291 n., 298, 301, 315.
Wee man throws a huge stone a long way, I, 330-2, 334.
Der weise Mann, Armenian tale of the King John and the Bishop type, V, 291.
Der weise Mann und seine drei Söhne (Tausend and eine Nacht), V, 13.
Der weisse, der rothe, und der schwarze Hahn, V, 294 a.
Well: prince let down into a well by servant, who will not draw him up unless he consents to exchange positions, V, 45-7, 281.
Wells, at Carterhaugh, I, 341, 343, 347 (Lady well); IV, 457;
Richard’s well, II, 148, 150;
St Anton’s, Anthony’s well, IV, 93, 105;
St Evron’s well, I, 146;
St Johnston’s wall, II, 21;
Usher’s well, II, 238;
Wall o Stream, wells of Slane, I, 387 f.;
Wearie’s well, 55;
Well o Spa (Aberdeen), IV, 286.
Werewolves, III, 498 a.
Wernhart von Strättlingen, Swiss tale, I, 197; II, 499 b.
Westerness, Kingdom of Ailmar, father of Rymenhild, I, 188.
Westmoreland, Earl of, Charles Neville, III, 417;
takes refuge in Scotland, but, finding himself unsafe, goes to sea to seek his fortune, 419;
encounters Don John of Austria, and is taken by him to Seville; the queen makes him captain over forty thousand, to war against the heathen soldan, 421;
fights with the soldan and strikes off his head; the queen offers to marry him, but he informs her that he has a wife; she has him written down for a hundred pound a day, 422 f.
Whale swallows the Magdalen, V, 288 a.
What women love best, or most desire, Arthur or other to say rightly, or suffer, I, 289, 291, 292, 293 f.
When? answers indicating never: when crows are white, swans are black, stones float, etc., I, 168, 437, 441-3, 448 f.; II, 507 b; III, 499 b; 507 b; IV, 94-6, 98-103; V, 173 f., 218.
White willow wand on the mast sign of a merchant vessel, III, 340, 344, 349; IV, 504.
White Ladies (German), I, 336, 338 n.
The Whole Prophecie (of Merlin, Thomas Rymer, etc.), I, 317.
The Widow’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 506.
Wie drey lantzknecht vmb ein zerung batten, tale in Pauli, III, 208.
Wife evades the inquiries of her jealous husband by explaining away suspicious circumstances, V, 88 ff., 281, 303 f.
Wife pays 10,000 crowns to save her husband from the consequences of an amour, IV, 356-8.
The Wife lapped in Morrel’s skin, V, 105.
Wife wrapped a sheep’s skin, etc., and beaten, V, 104 ff., 304 f.
Wigalois, romance, I, 257 n., 269 n.; III, 515 b.
Wigamur, romance, I, 269.
Wikel==Fikenild, Horn’s false friend, I, 192.
Wilkina saga, III, 16.
Will, her, (sovereignty) is what a woman most desires, I, 290-2, 295, 299; V, 289 b.
William and Margaret, an Old Ballad, David Mallet, II, 200; V, 294 a.
William of Malmesbury, II, 37; V, 298 a.
William of Orange, his gab and its performance, I, 277 f.
Willoughby, Hugh, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
Wine called for by girl about to be executed, to drink to her well-wishers and they to drink for her, III, 384 f. (cf. 388, 19, 20, 391, 13).
Wisákhá, the history of, I, 11 n.
The Wise Heykar, I, 12.
Wit-combats with little or no story, I, 2 n., 7, 8, 13; III, 496 a; IV, 439.
Witch can twist a rope out of flying sand, lay sun and moon flat on the earth, turn the whole world round about, twine a string out of running water, I, 83;
witch offers gifts to persuade young man to be her leman, I, 314.
Witch of Berkeley, V, 298 a.
Witchcraft imputed to noble ladies in Scotland in the 16th century, III, 410 f.;
professed by Lady Douglas of Loch Leven, 412.
Witches blow horns, I, 314 f.
De witte Swâne, tale, III, 501.
The wolf in England and Scotland, I, 434; III, 2, 4 f.; IV, 495 b.
Wolfdietrich, I, 182, 196, 201 n.; II, 127; III, 507 a, 515 b.
Woman irregularly wived discovered to be the sister of the bride of an attempted union, II, 66-70, 72 f., 75-7, 79, 82; IV, 463 b; V, 220 b;
woman (leman, waif woman) who expects to be discarded wishes her seven sons were seven rats, and she a cat, or seven hares and she a hound, and she would worry them all, II, 70 f., 75, 79, 81 (corruptions, 73, 77);
so of woman who has borne seven bairns to a man living in a wood (hill-man), I, 371.
Woman offers to fight for man, IV, 433, 444 f.
Women have long hair and short wits, I, 200 n.
Women, jury of, IV, 13 (3).
Wonderland or paradise, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a; II, 496 f.
Wood to come to see one king put another to death (cf. Birnam wood), V, 3.
Woodcock, beware thine eye, proverb, III, 199, 201.
Wooing of Etain, Irish tale, its correspondences with Sir Orfeo, II, 500.
Wrennok, III, 13.
Wrestling-match: prize, ram, ram and ring, III, 52;
bull, horse, gloves, ring and pipe of wine, III, 63.
The Wright’s Chaste Wife, English rhymed tale, I, 268; V, 100.
Wulric the Heron, comrade of Hereward, III, 179.
Wuthering Heights, V, 203.
The Wyfe lapped in Morrelles skin, rhymed tale, V, 104.
Wyssenhere, Michel, poem on the Duke of Brunswick, I 195.
Yâjnavalkya’s Law-book, II, 235.
Yarrow, I, 246; IV, 160 ff., 178 ff.
Ympë tree, I, 178, 216, 340; II, 505 b; V, 290.
See Apple-tree; Trees, special.
Yorkshire dialect in an American ballad, V, 296 a.
Young Beichan: relations of his story to those of Henry and Reinfrit of Brunswick, the good Gerhard, Messer Torello, etc., I, 459.
Young Beichan and Hind Horn, parts of the principal actors in one inverted in the other, I, 455.
Young Thomlin, an air, I, 336.
Ywaine and Gawin, romance, I, 306.
Zeyn Alasnam, Arabian tale of, I, 269.