It will scarce be necessary to remind the reader, that Turnewathelan is evidently Tearne-Wadling, celebrated in the old ballad of the Marriage of Sir Gawaine. See pp. [14] and [325] of this volume.
Many new references, and perhaps some additional articles might be added to the foregoing list from Mr. Warton's History of English Poetry, 3 vols. 4to. and from the notes to Mr. Tyrwhitt's improved edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, &c. in 5 vols. 8vo. which have been published since this Essay, &c. was first composed; but it will be sufficient once for all to refer the curious reader to those popular works.
The reader will also see many interesting particulars on the subject of these volumes, as well as on most points of general literature, in Sir John Hawkins's curious History of Music, &c., in 5 volumes, 4to., as also in Dr. Burney's Hist. &c. in 4 vols. 4to.
[Much has been written upon the subject of this Essay since Percy's time, but no exhaustive work has yet appeared. The reader may consult W. C. Hazlitt's new edition of Warton's History, 1871; Ellis's Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, new edition, by J. O. Halliwell, 1848; Dunlop's History of Fiction; J. M. Ludlow's Popular Epics of the Middle Ages, Norse, German, and Carlovingian Cycles, 1865; G. W. Cox and E. H. Jones's Popular Romances of the Middle Ages, 1871; and also the prefaces of the various old English romances printed by the Percy, Camden, and Early English Text Societies; and by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, and Roxburghe Clubs.]
FOOTNOTES:
[465] Vid. Lasiteau, Moeurs de Sauvages, t. ii. Dr. Browne's Hist. of the Rise and Progress of Poetry.
[466] "Germani celebrant carminibus antiquis (quod unum apud illos memoriæ et annalium genus est) Tuistonem," &c. Tacit. Germ. c. ii.
[467] Barth. Antiq. Dan. lib. i. cap. x. Wormii Literatura Runica, ad finem.