The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story

by Gordon Hall Gerould

[38] See pp. 104 f.

[39] II. is the only version which has Jean make his first two voyages on land, a trait which contradicts the general testimony of the tales throughout the chapter.

[40] See pp. 85 f.

[41] P. 146.

[42] See The Legend of Perseus, E. S. Hartland, 1896, volume iii.

[43] See p. 103 above.

[44] In Jean de Calais IX. they set out together, but to the hero’s home.

[45] So also in Transylvanian. Similarly the hero offers to give all of his wife, instead of dividing her, in Dianese, Old Swedish, and Old Wives’ Tale.

[46] See pp. 100–102.

[47] See pp. 85 f.