_Source_.--Kennedy's _Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts_.
_Parallels_.--This is the fullest and most dramatic version I know of
the Grimm's "Town Musicians of Bremen" (No. 27). I have given an
English (American) version in my _English Fairy Tales_, No. 5, in the
notes to which would be found references to other versions known in the
British Isles (_e.g._, Campbell, No. 11) and abroad. _Cf._ remarks on
No. vi.