P. 288 ff., II, 289 b, III, 454 a. Mr. Whitley Stokes has pointed out that the incident of a hag turning into a beautiful woman after a man has bedded with her occurs in the Book of Ballymote, an Irish MS. of about 1400, and elsewhere and earlier in Irish story, as in the Book of Leinster, a MS. of the middle of the twelfth century. The Academy, XLI, 399 (1892). It is singular that the sovereignty in the first tale is the sovereignty of Erin, with which the disenchanted hag rewards her deliverer, and not the sovereignty over woman’s will which is the solution of the riddle in the ballad. See also the remarks of Mr. Alfred Nutt in the same volume, p. 425 (and, again, Academy, October 19, 1889, p. 255), who, while denying the necessity for any continental derivation of the hideous woman, suggests that Rosette in Gautier’s Conte du Graal, vv. 25380-744, furnishes a more likely origin for her than Chrétien’s damoisele, since it does not appear that the latter is under spells, and spells which are loosed by the action of a hero. [See also O’Grady, Silva Gadelica, p. 328 ff.; translation, p. 370 ff. F. N. Robinson.]
289 b. Gromere Gromorson (Grummore Gummursum) and Gromore somyr Ioure, in Malory’s Morte Darthur, ed. Sommer, 256, 258, 799.
32. King Henry.
P. 290, note †, IV, 454 a. “La nuit si jolie fille, le jour si jolie biche:” Pineau, Le Folk-lore du Poitou, p. 391. [A raven by day, a woman by night: von Wlislocki, M. u. S. der Bukowinaer u. Siebenbürger Armenier, p. 75. On transformations of all kinds, see S. Prato, Bulletin de Folklore, 1892, p. 316 ff.]
298, II, 502 b, IV, 454 a. A man marries a snake. At midnight it becomes a woman, and it keeps that form thereafter: J. Krainz, Mythen u. Sagen aus dem steirischen Hochlande. No. 147, p. 194. A snake (enchanted man) marries a girl, and is thereby freed: Brüder Zingerle, Tirols Volksdichtungen, II, 173 ff.; cf. II, 317. G. L. K.
33. Kempy Kay.
P. 300. I have serious doubts whether this offensive ballad has not been made too important; whether, notwithstanding the points noted at p. 301, it is anything more than a variety of ‘The Queen of all Sluts.’
305 b. A 101. lauchty in Sharpe with a line drawn in ink through l (probably by the editor, as this is a presentation copy).
V, 213 a. Since we have Pitcairn’s copy only in Sharpe’s handwriting, we cannot determine which of the two made the changes.