240, 241, 505 b, II, 501 b, III, 502 b, IV, 452 a, V, 212 a. A roast pheasant gets feathers and flies away in attestation of a tale: M. Wardrop, Georgian Folk-tales, p. 10 f., No 2. G. L. K.
Fish flying out of the pan. See Wesselofsky, Archiv f. slavische Philologie, VI, 574.
241 b. Herod’s questions. Compare Bergström and Nordlander, 98, 3; Pidal, p. 128.
23. Judas.
[P. 243 b. Trinity College MS. B, 14, 39, has been recovered, and Professor Skeat has had the kindness to furnish a copy of the ballad. Wright’s text proves to be in all essentials accurate; but, on account of the age and great interest of the poem, Professor Skeat’s copy is here reproduced. The ballad has no title in the MS.
Hit wes upon a scereþorsday þat vre louerd aros.
ful milde were þe wordes he spec to iudas.
iudas þou most to iurselem oure mete for to bugge.
þritti platen of seluer þou bere up oþi rugge.
þou comest fer iþe brode stret fer iþe brode strete.5