The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

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6⁴. auld not in MS., supplied from 9⁴.

7³. Christend.

8¹. she says is probably the comment of the singer or reciter.

FOOTNOTES:

[333] Many of these instances are cited by Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie, 1875, I, 378. In Thiele's first example the necessity of having Christian aid comes from the lying-in woman being a Christian who had been carried off by an elf. In Asbjørnsen's tale, the woman who is sent for to act as midwife finds that her own serving-maid is forced, without being aware of it, to work all night in the elfin establishment, and is very tired with double duty.

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HIND ETIN

[A]. 'Young Akin,' Buchan's Ballads of the North of Scotland, I, 6. Motherwell's MS., p. 554.

[B]. 'Hynde Etin,' Kinloch's Ancient Scottish Ballads, p. 228.

[C]. 'Young Hastings,' Buchan, Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 67. 'Young Hastings the Groom,' Motherwell's MS., p. 450; Motherwell's Minstrelsy, p. 287.