P. 50 b, the last paragraph. It might have been remarked that ‘King
Estmere’ resembles in a general way a series of German poems of
adventure, in which a young king (or his guardians) is nice about a
wife, and the princess proposed to him is won only with great
difficulty: König Rother (ed. Rückert, v. 13 ff.); Ortnit (Ortnit und
die Wolfdietriche, ed. Amelung und Jänicke, I, 4, st. 8 ff.);
Hugdietrich (the same, p. 168, st. 9 ff.); Oswald (Sant Oswaldes Leben,
ed. Ettmüller, p. 6, v. 140 ff); Orendel (ed. Berger, p. 8, v. 192 ff.);
Dietwart (Dietrichs Flucht, ed. Martin, Heldenbuch, II^r Teil, p. 68, v.
785 ff.). To which may be added Fore, in Salman und Marolf (ed. Vogt, p.
5, str. 24 ff.), and Tsar Vasily, in Russian _byliny_ (see Vogt, p.
XLII).