All in a mornin early;
He’s shod his horse wi siller sheen,
An shown them a’ his folly.
245. Young Allan.
376 b, last paragraph. Talking Ships. See Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde, p. 365 f., apropos of Árnason’s Skipamál, Þþjoðsögur, II, 8. Árnason notes two talking ships in Flóamanna Saga, c. 36, and Liebrecht the Argo.
377. A. The original, altered in places by Skeat, stands as follows in “The Old Lady’s Collection,” where it is No 4.
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Aa the skippers of merry Lothen,
As they sat att the wine,
Ther fell a rosin them among,