And with all of us together.
This belongs to the series of the sun myths, curiously connected here also with the peacock. I am not aware of any parallel to this legend. Here a young man tries to woo the sister of the sun. In the lark stories it is the young girl who wishes to marry the sun, represented as a young man. They all belong to the same cycle, into which apparently so far the Christian element is absent. The remarkable part of it is, that this and the other songs are Christmas carols, connected probably with the Festival of the Sun with which Christmas was originally connected. It is the time of the winter solstice and the birth of the new sun. This probably explains the part which the sun legend plays in so many Rumanian Christmas carols.
[1] Probably a reminiscence of Ler, the old Slavonic God of Love.
LXXXII.
THE WOOING OF A FAIRY.
A Christmas Carol.
Here, O Lord; there, O Lord,
In these houses, in these palaces and yards,