190 a. Hereward will not drink unless the princess presents the cup: very like Horn here. Michel, Chroniques Anglo-Normandes, II, 18 f.
191, note *. Blonde of Oxford (Jehan et Blonde). See Suchier’s edition, Œuvres poétiques de Philippe de Remi, Sire de Beaumanoir, II, 89, 99, 103.
193 a. That Horn Child, though much more modern in its present form than the Gest, “would seem to have been formed on a still older model” was suggested by T. Wright in 1835, and was the opinion of J. Grimm and of Ferdinand Wolf. Wolf maintains that Horn Child was the work of a popular jongleur, or vagrant minstrel, and that for this reason Chaucer put it among the “romances of prys,” which are mentioned in Sir Thopas. Anyway, this must have been the form of the story which was known to Chaucer. Wolf, Ueber die Lais, p. 217 f.
195 a (3). Oude Liedekens in Bladeren, L. van Paemel, No 28==Hoffmann, No 2.
199 a. Albanian. De Grazie, Canti p. albanesi, p. 118.
199 a, note *. Ring in betrothal. So in Twelfth Night, IV, 3, as Prior remarks, II, 277, apropos of ‘Axel and Walborg’, st. 44.
201, note. These talismans also in India: Tawney’s Kathá-Sarit-Ságara, II, 161.
502 b, 5th paragraph, III, 501 b, IV, 450 b. Add: Kolberg, Lud, IV, 23, No 146; VI, 166 f., No 332; XII, 115-118, Nos 221-224 (jumps seven tables and touches the eighth); XVI, 271, No 438; XVI, 272, No 440; Valjavec, p. 300, No 17; Kolberg, Mazowsze, II, 109, No 251. A soldier comes back after seven years’ absence to his “widow;” drops ring into cup, and is recognized as her husband. Lud, XXI, 61, No 123.
20. The Cruel Mother.
P. 219 b, 504 a, II, 500 a, IV, 451 a, V, 212 a. Add: T, Wolfram, p. 90, No 64, ‘Es hütet ein Schäfer an jenem Rain,’ ‘Die Rabenmutter;’ Böhme’s edition of Erk’s Liederhort, I, 636, No 212 e; and to the literature several items at p. 637.