for
O quit your sword, and bend your bow.
_Parallels_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version
which “The Laidly Worm” has localised near Bamborough. We learn from
this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owain, the Welsh hero
who flourished in the ninth century. Childe Wynd therefore = Childe
Owein. The “Deliverance Kiss” has been studied by Prof. Child, _l.c._,
i. 207. A noteworthy example occurs in Boiardo's _Orlando Inamorato_,
cc. xxv., xxvi.
_Remarks_.--It is perhaps unnecessary to give the equations “Laidly Worm
= Loathly Worm = Loathsome Dragon,” and “borrowed = changed.”