[196.1] Theal, 138.
[196.2] Ralston, Russian F.T., 10, from Afanasief.
[197.1] Rink, 450.
[197.2] Landes, Tjames, 77.
[197.3] ii. Giles, 207. See also ibid., 119, 267, 279.
[198.1] i. Giles, 413.
[198.2] Countess Martinengo-Cesaresco, 24.
[198.3] Jacobs, Celtic F.T., 82, from xiii. Celtic Mag., 69. An Irish form of this story, manifestly later in its present form, derives the interlacing trees from stakes of yew passed through the bodies of the lovers when they were buried. Gaidoz, in iv. Mélusine, 12, citing Transactions of the Gaelic Soc., 1808.
[199.1] W. Spottiswoode, in ii. Trans. Ethnol. Soc., N.S., 248. See for other examples iv. and v. Mélusine, passim.
[199.2] Zingerle, Sagen, 136.