43 seems to be a corruption of I forbid you leave your families, or something of the kind: cf. B a 11, 3.
101. The knight seems to be lack (wanting) rather in not bidding, or letting, her ride; his lack is nothing but his leave; but as the idea may conceivably be that it would be unknightly to ride with a lady behind—all ballads to the contrary—no emendation has been attempted.
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FOOTNOTES:
[82] Caution is imperative where so much ground is covered, and no man should be confident that he can do absolute justice to poetry in a tongue that he was not born to; but foreign poetry is as likely to be rated too high as to be undervalued. I will give Grundtvig's impression, at least as competent a judge of popular ballads as ever spoke: "Den Rigdom paa stemningsfuld Lyrik, som i det hele taget hjemler den engelsk-skotske Folkevise den højeste poetiske Rang mellem alle sine Søskende, kommer ogsaa her til Syne, fordelt paa alle Opskrifter." Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, V, 187.
[83] Except in Swedish A, where, apparently by a mixture of two stories, the issue is tragic.
[64]
FAIR JANET
[A]. 'Fair Janet,' Sharpe's Ballad Book, p. 1.
[B]. 'Fair Janet and Sweet William,' Motherwell's MS., p. 357.