And the bride frae the bridegroom was stown awa.
19. King Orfeo.
P. 215. Professor Sophus Bugge maintains that the Scandinavian ballad ‘Harpens Kraft’ shows acquaintance with the English romance, and indeed, like the English ballad, is derived from it. (Arkiv för nordisk Filologi, VII, 97 ff., 1891.)
20. The Cruel Mother.
P. 218. Findlay’s MSS, I, 58 f., derived from his mother.
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I lookëd ower the castle-wa,
Hey rose, ma lindie, O
Saw twa bonnie babies playin at the ba.
Doon in the green wood-sidie, O