40. The Queen of Elfan’s Nourice.
P. 358 b, II, 505 f., III, 505 f., IV, 459 a, V, 215 b. Mortal midwives for fairies, etc.: Wucke, Sagen der mittleren Werra, II, 25; Gebhart, Oesterreichisches Sagenbuch, p. 208; Baader, Neugesammelte Volkssagen, No 95, p. 68. G. L. K.
[Kirk’s Secret Commonwealth, ed. Lang, p. 13; Denham Tracts, II, 138.]
42. Clerk Colville.
[P. 372 b. Der Ritter von Staufenberg. See the edition by Edward Schröder: Zwei altdeutsche Rittermären, Moriz von Craon, Peter von Staufenberg. Berlin, 1894. Schröder dates the composition of the poem about 1310 (p. LI). He shows that Schott’s edition, which Culemann followed, was a reprint of one printed by Prüss in 1483 at the earliest, but thinks that it followed that of Prüss at no long interval (p. XXXIV). Cf. also Schorbach, Zeitschr. f. deutsches Altertum, XL, 123 ff.]
374-78. The mother’s attempt to conceal the death of her son from his wife occurs also in ‘Ebbe Tygesøns Dødsridt’ and ‘Hr. Magnuses Dødsridt,’ Olrik, Danske Ridderviser, Nos 320, 321, and Swedish copies of the former; borrowed no doubt from ‘Elveskud.’
380, II, 506 a, III, 506 a, IV, 459 a, V, 216 a. Add: XX, ‘La Mort de Jean Renaud,’ Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-comté, p. 152.
43. The Broomfield Hill.
[P. 393 a, III, 506 b, IV, 459 b. With the Italian ballad cf. ‘Quarante ans j’ai travaillé,’ Georgeakis et Pineau, Folk-lore de Lesbos, p. 246.]
393 f., 506. Jäger-Romanze in Böhme, Altdeutsches Liederbuch, No 437, from Melchior Franck, Fasciculus Quodlibeticus, Nürnberg, 1611, No 6: slightly different, no disposition to kill the maid. Three copies of this all but inevitable ballad in Blätter für Pommersche Volkskunde, II. Jahrgang, p. 77 f., ‘Jägerslied;’ and more might be added.