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.
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