P. 88. ‘Ribold og Guldborg:’ Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 33,
‘Nævnet til døde,’ No 15, #A-I#.
91 b. #Swedish.# ‘Kung Valdemo,’ ‘Ellibrand och Fröken Gyllenborg,’
Lagus, Nyländska Folkvisor, I, 1, No 1, _a_, _b_. (“Name not my name,”
_a_ 20, _b_ 12.)
95 b, 489 b; III, 498 a. For the whole subject, see K. Nyrop. Navnets
Magt, 1887, and especially sections 4, 5, pp. 46–70. As to reluctance to
have one’s name known, and the advantage such knowledge gives an
adversary, see E. Clodd, in The Folk Lore Journal, VII, 154 ff., and, in
continuation, Folk-Lore, I, 272.
The berserkr Glammaðr could pick off any man with his pike, if only he
knew his name. Saga Egils ok Ásmundar, Rafn, Fornaldar Sögur, III, 387,
Ásmundarson, F. s. Norðrlanða, III, 292. (G. L. K.)
The demonic Gelô informs certain saints who force her “to tell them how
other people’s children [may] be defended from her attacks,” that if
they “can write her twelve names and a half she shall never be able to
come within seventy-five stadia and a half:” Thomas Wright, Essays on
Subjects connected with the Literature, etc., of the Middle Ages, 1846,
I, 294 (referring to Leo Allatius, De Græcorum hodie quorundam
opinationibus). The passage in question is to be found at p. 127 of Leo
Allatius, De templis Græcorum recentioribus, ad Ioannem Morinum; De
Narthece ecclesiæ veteris; nec non De Græcorum hodie quorundam
opinationibus, ad Paullum Zacchiam. Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1645. (G. L. K.)
96 b. #Swedish.# Two copies of ‘Rosen lilla’ in Lagus, Nyländska
Folkvisor, I, 37, No 10.
#Danish.# Kristensen, Jyske Folkeminder, X, 215, No 52, #C# 9, two
lilies; p. 318, No 78, 9, 10, graves south and north, two lilies.
97 b. #French.# ‘Les deux Amoureux,’ Daymard, Vieux Chants p. rec. en
Quercy, p. 122, lavender and tree.
97 b, 489 b, II, 498 a, III, 498 b. #Slavic.# (1.) White-Russian: he
buried in church, she in ditch; plane and linden (planted); plane
embraces linden. MS. (2.) Little-Russian: buried apart; plane grows over
his grave, two birches over hers; branches do _not_ interlace. Kolberg,
Pokucie, p. 41. (3.) White-Russian: he in church, she near church; oak,
birch (planted); trees touch. Zbiór wiado do antropol., XIII, 102 f.
(4.) Little-Russian: burial apart in a church; rosemary and lily from
graves. Var.: rose and sage, rosemary; flowers interlace. Holovatzky,
III, 254. (J. Karłowicz, in Mélusine, V, 39 ff.)
#Bulgarian.# A poplar from the maid’s grave, a pine from her lover’s:
Collection of the Bulgarian Ministry of Instruction, I, 35. (W. W.)
97 b, 490 a, III, 498 b. #Breton.# Luzel, Soniou, I, 272–3: a tree from
the young man’s grave, a rose from the maid’s.
99 ff., 490 ff. ‘The Earl o Bran,’ “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border
Minstrelsy,” No 22 b, Abbotsford; in the handwriting of Richard Heber.
1
Did ye ever hear o guid Earl o Bran
An the queen’s daughter o the south-lan?
2
She was na fifteen years o age
Till she came to the Earl’s bed-side.
3
‘O guid Earl o Bran, I fain wad see
My grey hounds run over the lea.’
4
‘O kind lady, I have no steeds but one,
But ye shall ride, an I shall run.’
5
‘O guid Earl o Bran, but I have tua,
An ye shall hae yere wael o those.’
6
The’re ovr moss an the’re over muir,
An they saw neither rich nor poor.
7
Till they came to ald Carl Hood,
He’s ay for ill, but he’s never for good.
8
‘O guid Earl o Bran, if ye loe me,
Kill Carl Hood an gar him die.’
9
‘O kind lady, we had better spare;
I never killd ane that wore grey hair.
10
‘We’ll gie him a penny-fie an let him gae,
An then he’ll carry nae tiddings away.’
11
‘Where hae been riding this lang simmer-day?
Or where hae stolen this lady away?’
12
‘O I hae not riden this lang simmer-day,
Nor hae I stolen this lady away.
13
‘For she is my sick sister
I got at the Wamshester.’
14
‘If she were sick an like to die,
She wad na be wearing the gold sae high.’
15
Ald Carl Hood is over the know,
Where they rode one mile, he ran four.
16
Till he came to her mother’s yetts,
An I wat he rapped rudely at.
17
‘Where is the lady o this ha?’
‘She’s out wie her maidens, playing at the ba.’
18
‘O na! fy na!
For I met her fifteen miles awa.
19
‘She’s over moss, an she’s over muir,
An a’ to be the Earl o Bran’s whore.’
20
Some rode wie sticks, an some wie rungs,
An a’ to get the Earl o Bran slain.
21
That lady lookd over her left shoudder-bane:
‘O guid Earl o Bran, we’ll a’ be taen!
For yond’r a’ my father’s men.
22
‘But if ye’ll take my claiths, I’ll take thine,
An I’ll fight a’ my father’s men.’
23
‘It’s no the custom in our land
For ladies to fight an knights to stand.
24
‘If they come on me ane by ane,
I’ll smash them a’ doun bane by bane.
25
‘If they come on me ane and a’,
Ye soon will see my body fa.’
26
He has luppen from his steed,
An he has gein her that to had.
27
An bad her never change her cheer
Untill she saw his body bleed.
28
They came on him ane by ane,
An he smashed them doun a’ bane by bane.
29
He sat him doun on the green grass,
For I wat a wearit man he was.
30
But ald Carl Hood came him behind,
An I wat he gae him a deadly wound.
31
He’s awa to his lady then,
He kissed her, an set her on her steed again.
32
He rode whistlin out the way,
An a’ to hearten his lady gay.
33
‘Till he came to the water-flood:
‘O guid Earl o Bran, I see blood!’
34
‘O it is but my scarlet hood,
That shines upon the water-flood.’
35
They came on ‘till his mother’s yett,
An I wat he rappit poorly at.
36
His mother she’s come to the door:
‘O son, ye’ve gotten yere dead wie an Eng_lish_ wh_o_re!’
37
‘She was never a wh_o_re to me;
Sae let my brother her husband be.’
38
Sae ald Carl Hood was not the dead o ane,
But he was the dead o hale seeventeen.
_Note at the end_: I have not written the chorus, but Mr Leyden,
having it by him, knows how to insert it.
“Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border Minstrelsy,” No 22 d. In
the handwriting of William Laidlaw. Scott has written at the
head, Earl Bran, another copy.
1
Earl Bran’s a wooing gane;
Ae lalie, O lilly lalie
He woo’d a lady, an was bringing her hame.
O the gae knights o Airly
2
. . . . . . . .
They met neither wi rich nor poor.
3
Till they met wi an auld palmer Hood,
Was ay for ill, an never for good.
4
‘O yonder is an auld palmer Heed:
Tak your sword an kill him dead.’
5
‘Gude forbid, O ladie fair,
That I kill an auld man an grey hair.
6
‘We’ll gie him a an forbid him to tell;’
The gae him a an forbad him to tell.
7
The auld man than he’s away hame,
He telld o Jane whan he gaed hame.
8
‘I thought I saw her on yon moss,
Riding on a milk-white horse.
9
‘I thought I saw her on yon muir;
By this time she’s Earl Bran’s wh_ore_.’
10
Her father he’s ca’d on his men:
‘Gae follow, an fetch her again.’
11
She’s lookit oer her left shoulder:
‘O yonder is my father’s men!
12
‘O yonder is my father’s men:
Take my cleadin, an I’ll take thine.’
13
‘O that was never law in land,
For a ladie to feiht an a knight to stand.
14
‘But if yer father’s men come ane an ane,
Stand ye by, an ye’ll see them slain.
15
‘If they come twae an twae,
Stand ye by, an ye’ll see them gae.
16
‘And if they come three an three,
Stand ye by, an ye’ll see them die.’
17
Her father’s men came ane an ane,
She stood by . . . .
18
Than they cam by twae an twae,
. . . . . . .
19
Than they cam by three an three,
. . . . . . .
20
But ahint him cam the auld palmer Hood,
An ran him outthro the heart’s blood.
21
‘I think I see your heart’s blood:’
‘It’s but the glistering o your scarlet hood.’
* * * * * *
* * * * *
7^1. _MS._, he’s *, _and, in the margin_, * away has been gane.
_Over_ away hame _is written_ thre them (==thrae, frae, them),
_or, perhaps_, thre than.
20^1. _MS_., palmer weed: _cf._ 3^1, 4^1.
20^2. outr thro.
P. 100, #B#; 489 b, 492, #I#. The printed copy used by Scott was ‘Lord
Douglas’ Tragedy,’ the first of four pieces in a stall-pamphlet,
“licensed and entered, 1792:” “Scotch Ballads, Materials for Border
Minstrelsy,” No 1. #I# is another edition of the same. The variations
from #I# are as follows:
* * * * *
1^1, says.
2^2. your arms.
3^4. father who.
4^3. seven _wanting_.
4^4. just now.
5^1. better _for_ (_the obvious misprint_) bitter.
5^3. once that.
6^1. Hold your hand.
7^2. wounds.
7^4. forkd in the.
8^1. Lady Margret.
9^3, 13^3. blue gilded, _as in_ #I#, _for_ bugelet: hanging down.
9^4, 13^4. slowly they both.
10^3. yon clear river-side.
11^3. his pretty.
12^3. ’Tis nothing.
15^2. soft.
16^2. long ere day.
16^4. died _wanting_.
17^1. St _for_ Lady.
17^3. sprung.
18^2. be near.
18^3. ye: weil.