P. 371, No 42, p. 389. C in Findlay MSS, I, 141: ‘Clerk Colin,’ from Miss Butchart, Arbroath, 1868. Miss Butchart, who died about 1890, aged above ninety years, was the daughter of the Mrs Butchart from whom Kinloch got certain ballads, and niece to the Mrs Arrot who was one of Jamieson’s contributors. In the MS. there are these readings:
23. To gang.
43. maun gae.
52. could gang.
61. To Clyde’s.
374 b, IV, 459 a. Danish. ‘Elveskud,’ Kristensen, Skattegraveren, XII, 54, No 125; ‘Elvedansen,’ Folkeminder, XI, 15, No 17, A-C.
380, II, 506 a, III, 506 a, IV, 459 a. TT, ‘La chanson de Renaud,’ Pineau, Le Folk-Lore du Poitou, p. 399; UU, ‘La Mort de Jean Raynaud, Wallonia, I, 22.
VV, WW. Versions de la Bresse, one, and a fragment, J. Tiersot, Revue des Traditions Populaires, VII, 654 ff.
382, II, 506 a, III, 506 a. Italian. N. ‘El conte Anzolin,’ Villanis, Canzoni pop. Zaratine, Archivio, XI, 32. A burlesque form in Canti pop. Emiliani, Maria Carmi, Archivio, XII, 186, and a Venetian rispetto of the same character (noted by Maria Carmi) in Bernoni, Canti pop. Veneziani, 1873, Puntata 7, p. 12, No 62.