Chapter XL: Part III: , p. 24, Part IV, p. xxxi, taken down from James Olver, (27)

Where will I get a bonnie boy,
Will win gold to his fee?
O here am I, etc.,
II, 114, 116-19, 121, 123 f., 129, 131, 177, 186, 188, 190, 194,
212, 284-7, 311, 313, 316, 379, 394 f.; IV, 229, 235, 398, 466 f.,
486, 488; V, 227.

O whan he came to broken briggs
He bent his bow and swam,
An whan he came to the green grass growin
He slackd his shoone (set down his feet) and ran,
II, 114 f., 117, 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 247 f., 250, 253, 257,
272, 287, 311, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398, 466 f., 477; V, 228,
262.

O whan he came to Lord William’s gates,
He baed na to chap or ca,
But set his bent bow till his breast,
An lightly lap the wa;
An, or the porter was at the gate,
The boy was i the ha,
II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV, 477; V, 228.

O is my biggins broken, boy?
Or is my towers won?
Or is my lady lighter yet
Of a dear daughter or son?
Your biggin is na broken, sir, but--,
II, 115-19, 122 f., 131 f., 212, 248, 250, 253-5, 257; IV, 467, 477.

O saddle me the black, the black,
Or saddle me the brown:
O saddle me the swiftest steed
That ever rade frae a town,
II, 115-18, 120-13, 212, 216-18, 254, 312 f.; IV, 234, 236, 467,
477; V, 228, 262.

O where is a’ my merry young men
Whom I gie meat and fee?
I, 368 f., 396; II, 114, 123, 266-8, 403; III, 10; V, 35, 37, 292.

O is your saddle set awrye?
Or rides your steed for you owre high?
(saddle, bridle, stirrups, or something, not comfortable for
maid who is riding),
I, 66, and n., 68, 70, 72, 75-7, 79 f., 146, 179; IV, 450 a.

The first line that Sir Patrick red,
A loud lauch lauched he;
The next line that Sir Patrick red,
The teir blinded his ee,
II, 18 n., 20 f., 26 f., 29 f., 381 f., 385, 387, 389 f., 392 f.,
395; IV, 117-121, 351-4, 413, 483, 486.

Gown narrow that was wont to be wide;
coats short that were wont to be side, etc.,
II, 85, 122, 399, 401, 406 f., 409, 413; V, 36, 236.

I’m oer laigh to be your bride,
And I winna be your whore,
II, 181, 188; IV, 323, 325, 327, 330-32; V, 272.

Janet has kilted her green kirtle
A little aboon her knee, etc.,
I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457; V, 202 a.

(Pretence that a maid is trespassing in a wood.)
She had na pu’d a double rose,
A rose but only twa,
Till up there started young Tam Lin,
Says, Lady, thou’s pu nae mae,
I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, and n., 367, 369, 450-53; III,
504; IV, 456 f.

He took her by the milk-white hand,
And by the grass-green sleeve, etc.,
I, 346, 349, 357 b, 387, 452 f.; II, 465, 468, 475; IV, 193,
195-200, 203, 205 f., 456; V, 239. Cf. IV, 219-22, 225-7, 229.

O syne ye’ve got your will of me,
Your will o me ye’ve taen,
‘T is all I ask of you, kind sir,
Is to tell me your name.
Sometimes they call me Jack, he said, etc.,
I, 346, 444, 446, 450 f.; II, 458, and n., 459 f., 462, 465, 468,
471, 473-5, 478 f.; IV, 196, 200; V, 153-6, 237, 239.

(Dower despised.)
I’m seeking nane o your gold, he says,
Nor of your silver clear,
I only seek your daughter fair, etc.,
II, 380, 382 f., 385 f., 388, 390 f., 393 f., 396, 400 f., 403-5;
IV, 381 f., 399, 413 f., 487; V, 184, 276.

Lord Wayets lay over his castle-wa,
Beheld baith dale and down,
And he beheld, etc.,
I, 183; II, 131, 175, 257, 343 f.; IV, 235, 279, 403 f., 408, 433;
V, 277 f.

Hold your tongue, my daughter dear,
And ye’ll lat a’ your mourning be;
I’ll wed you to a higher match, etc.,
II, 163, 166; IV, 96-103, 166-72, 174 f., 277, 279.

If this be true, a reward; if a lie, hanging,
II, 244 f., 247-9, 251, 253-5, 257; III, 299; cf. II, 114.

Ffor because thou minged not Christ before,
Thee lesse me dreadeth thee, II, 59, 62; III, 422.

Sheet (sark, smock) for the dead, one half cambric,
the other needlework
(beaten gold and needlework; silk and cambric),
bier one half gold, the other silver,
I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471 (IV, 485, bier lacking; V,
224, sheet or sark lacking).

Horse: Wi siller he is shod before,
Wi burning gowd behind,
I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224.

The day ye deal at Annie’s burial
The bread but and the wine;
Before the morn at twall o’clock
They’ll deal the same at mine,
II, 190 f., 193, 195, 201, 203, 208, 211 f., 217, 219, 295; IV,
236, 465, 471; V, 224, 262.

It’s kiss will I yer cheek, Annie
And kiss will I your chin, etc.,
II, 191, 212, 217, 219, 221 f., 269, 273; IV, 236 f., 474.

She’s put it to her fause, fause cheek,
But an her fause, fause chin,
She’s put it to her fause, fause lips,
But never a drap went in.
He’s put it to his bonny cheek, etc.,
II, 284 f., 287; IV, 235, 427 f., 431.

The firstin kirk (town) that they came till
They gard the bells be rung,
At the nexten kirk that they came till
They gard the mass be sung,
II, 358, 350 f., 367, 380, 385, 388 f., 391 f., 396, 469;
IV, 487 f., 490.

Johnny Barbary used to be the first,
But now the last came he,
II, 401, 403, 460 f., 463, 466, 469, 471, 473-6; IV, 491; V, 238.

She’s taen her mantle her about,
Her cane (pike-staff, rod) intill her hand,
II, 223; III, 245, 248, 505; IV, 408 (6);
of man, II, 370; IV, 408 (14). (Corrupted, also, III, 250, 252.)

She’s taen her mantle her about,
Her coffer by the band,
I, 350; III, 244; IV, 385. Cf. IV, 456.

She’s taen her petticoat (petticoats) by the band,
Her mantle owre her arm,
I, 348, 349 (_bis_); II, 475.

The knight he knacked (wrung) his white fingers,
The lady tore her hair,
II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9.

Will ye gae to the cards or dice, etc.,
II, 109, 154, 164, 409; IV, 391, 415.

(Wedding procession.)
Wi four-and-twenty buirdlie men
Atween ye and the wun,
And four-and-twenty bonnie mays
Atween ye and the sun.
Four-and-twenty milk-white geese,
Stretching their wings sae wide,
Blawing the dust aff the high-way,
That Mild Mary may ride,
II, 315. See II, 132, 183, 195 a; IV, 470.

I’ll gae in at your gown-sleeve,
And out at your gown-hem,
I, 508; II, 366.

Man and woman riding, no word spoken by either (or by one of them)
for a long distance,
I, 41-44; III, 497 b; V, 207 a, 285 a (in French, Italian, Spanish,
Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic; not English).

Communion-bread called “God,” etc.,
III, 103 n.; V, 240, 299, 359 (under _mood_).

The Complaynt of Scotland,
I, 336, 390; II, 51 n., 296; III, 292, 303, 317, 362 f.; V, 202.

Compulsory marriage, woman carried off,
III, 329; IV, 232-54, 308-10; V, 168 f., 261-264.

Confession, wife’s, heard by husband disguised, III, 258-64.

The Constant but Unhappy Lovers, chap-book, V, 33.

Constantine, Emperor, his leprosy miraculously cured, V, 285.

Conte du Graal, Gautier’s, ugly lady in, V, 289 b.
See also Chrétien.

Contes à rire, I, 268 n., 408;
Nouveaux Contes à rire, I, 408.

Conversion, remarkably sudden, of Jean Livingston, IV, 29 f.

Copland, John of, takes David Bruce prisoner at Durham, III, 286.

Corgarf Castle, III, 427, 434.

Cork-heeled shoon, II, 20, 22 f., 27, 29 f., 88; III, 393.

Corsabrin, King of Mont Oscur, V, 6.

Cort Mantel, fabliau, I, 257, 266.

Costumes enclosed in nut-shells or small bags, I, 260, and n.

The Cotter’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.

The Countess of Northumberland (Rising in the North),
III, 403-5, 410, 417.

La Coupe Enchantée, La Fontaine, I, 265.

Craddocke, I, 264 n., 272 f.; V, 289 a (Welsh Caradawc).

Crawford, Earl, ballad, IV, 276 ff.

Crecrynbroghe Castle, III, 430.

Créqui, Sire de, I, 459.

Crescentia, II, 181.

Crichton. See under Family Names.

Cries, three (four), maid about to be murdered asks and is allowed,
I, 32-37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, 207.

Cromlet’s Lilt, reply to, II, 317 n.

Cromwell, Thomas Lord, ballad, III, 377.

Diu Crône of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 264, 266, 279 a.

Cross burned or cut into the flesh, II, 240, 242, 513 a; III, 514;
IV, 476; V, 225 b.

The Cruel Mother, German variations of (Die Rabenmutter,
Kindesmörderin, u.s.w.), I, 219 f., 504 a; II, 500 a; III, 502
b; IV, 451 a; V, 212 a, 287 b;
Slavic, Magyar, Croat, variations,
I, 220, 504 a; III, 502 b; V, 287 f.

The Cruel Mother, story of, blended with that of Magdalen and
Samaritan women, I, 230;
with that of the Samaritan woman simply, _ib._

Cuchulinn, Cuculin, IV, 463 b, 479 b.

Culpepper, affair of the Earl of Devonshire with, IV, 111.

Cunigund, name of Gunhild, wife of the Emperor Henry III, after her
marriage, II, 38.

Cunigund, St., wife of the Emperor St. Henry II, her ordeal, II, 38.

Cunningham, Allan, his handling of Scottish ballads, I, 62 119 n.,
142, 227, 436; II, 260, 302 f.; III, 265, 381; IV, 9, 80; V,
107; etc.

Curse, mother’s, I, 386; IV, 181, 186-9; V, 257, 301 a.

Cursor Mundi, I, 240, 505; II, 2, 7 nn.

Curtal Friar and curtal dogs, III, 121, 124 f.

Dactyliomancy, III, 411, and n.; V, 299 b.

Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, III, 505 f. See Mittagsfrau and Noon-sprite.

Dame Ragnell, I, 290.

Damiani, Pietro, I, 237 n.

La damoisele hydeuse in Chrétien’s Perceval, II, 502 b; IV, 454 a;
V, 289 b.

Damsel who prizes herself too highly marries and has a litter of nine
pups, a pig, and a boy, I, 210.

Dance, probation by, of young woman suspected of having had a child;
she dies in consequence; she dances with all the men of the
court, tires out successively all the courtiers, the king and
the queen; dances seven hours without breaking down, II, 102
(dance ordered, but deprecated, 103);
jealous or offended lover makes his mistress dance till her boots
are full of blood, II, 103;
young woman who has just borne a child, married against her will,
dances with her lover after the wedding and dies of the
exertion, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;
girl tires out fifteen partners (in Danish ballads), IV, 214;
lass of Anglesey, dancing on king’s party against English lords,
tires out fifteen of them, 215.

Daniel von Blühenthal, I, 257 n.

Dansekar, the pirate, V, 143.

Dark complexions in women, not in favor, I, 120, 133, =M=, (10), 135
(1); II, 182-97; V, 167 f.

Darnley, Lord (Henry Stuart), III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401,
442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;
murder of, in revenge for his complicity in the murder of Rizzio,
III, 399, 401;
hanged on a tree, 401, 444.

Dasakumaracharitam, I, 14.

The Daughter of King Under-waves, Scottish-Gaelic tale (Nighean
Righ fo Thuinn), I, 297.

Davenant, Sir William, The Wits, II, 243.

David, King of Judah, gives hard questions to his sons to determine
his successor; answered by Solomon, I, 13 n.

David Bruce, King of Scotland, can brook no opposition and kills his
own squire for warning him of the danger of invading England;
distributes portions of English territory among his chief men,
before the battle of Durham, III, 284 f.;
is taken prisoner by John of Copland, 286;
meets King John of France, also a captive, in London, 287.

De simplicitate viri et uxoris, tale of Sercambi, V, 97.

The Dead.
Dead body compromises the safety of a ship, I, 245 n.
Dead body lying in a river, expedients for discovering, II, 143,
145, 147 f., 151, 155.
Dead body may be caused to speak by setting door ajar or half open,
II, 281, 282 (15) (Scott. Nothing said of the door being ajar
in =B=, p. 283, or in the original of =A=, IV, 478).
Dead brother admonishes his sister for her pride of dress, I, 428,
430 f.
Carlin’s three sons come back from Paradise with hats of birch, II,
238 f.
Dead corpse of boy makes appointment to meet mother, III, 244 f.,
247; V, 241.
The dead, love tokens asked back by; gifts returned by, II, 228.
Grief for the dead detrimental to their comfort and peace, II,
234-7, 512 f.; III, 513; V, 294;
resentment for the disturbance occasioned by, V, 62;
tears for dead lover fill his coffin with blood; cheerfulness
causes his grave to be hung with rose-leaves, II, 228.
Kiss from the dead fatal, I, 439; II, 229-32, 236 f.; III, 512 f.;
IV, 474 f.;
bramble-leaf comes between the lips of maid and lover, and her
life saved, IV, 474.
Maid demands answers of her dead lover to questions concerning
state of the dead as condition of returning his troth, II,
231-3.
Dead man coming on horseback to his mistress (wife, sister) and
taking her with him, V, 60;
tales, 60-3, 303;
ballads, 63-67, 303.
Dead mother revisits her daughter, and would have torn her to
pieces, V, 303 b.
Dead mistress admonishes her lover, I, 426.
Troth asked for and returned by maid to dead lover, or resumed by
her, II, 227, 229-33.
Father asks return of troth from his son, II, 512 b.
Dead lover (like the Devil, Elfin Knight) sets maid tasks and would
have taken her with him if she had not ‘answered well,’ baffled
him by requiring preliminary counter-tasks, IV, 439 f.

Death feigned by maid (who takes a draught which produces
insensibility) in order to get to her lover, II, 355 f.,
358-67; III, 517; IV, 482-6; V, 234 a;
save her honor, avoid becoming a king’s mistress, avoid marrying a
Turk, avoid a disagreeable suitor, or to move a lover, II, 356;
III, 517; IV, 482 b; V, 234 a, 296 b;
painful or disagreeable tests of her sensibility, II, 359, 361,
364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, 296 b.

Death feigned by wife to escape to lover, or apparent death operated
by sleeping draughts administered by lover (woman is in some
cases buried, disinterred and carried off), V, 3 f., 6, 280;
tests of sensibility applied, V, 3, 6.

Death feigned by lover in order to possess himself of maid when she
comes to his wake, or his funeral, I, 247-53, 506 f.; II, 502
a; III, 503 a; IV, 453; V, 212, 289 a. (The maid in a convent
in some cases, and the body introduced into the cloister; nuns
think it an angel that has taken maid off, and they wish the
like for themselves, I, 248 f.)

Death of bridegroom, husband, concealed from bride, wife, by
evasions, I, 376-9, 381, 383-7.

The Death of Keeldar, ballad by Sir W. Scott, IV, 25.

The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by Anthony Munday and
Henry Chettle, III, 129, 519.

Death-naming. See Naming.

The Debateable Land, III, 363 n., 473.

Dee, Water of, II, 283, 468; III, 360, 457; IV, 52 f., 103.

Delamere, Lord, ballad, IV, 110 ff.

Deloney’s Pleasant History of John Winchcomb (Jacke of Newburie), I,
111, 113.

Demaundes Joyous, I, 13 n.

Demoniac character of the murderous knight in No 4, I, 49 f.

Derby, Earl of, incurs the anger of Henry VIII because Lancashire and
Cheshire are maliciously represented by the Earl of Surrey to
have failed to do their duty at Flodden, III, 355-7;
the next day a letter from the queen gives all the credit of the
victory to Lancashire and Cheshire and the Earl of Derby, and
the Stanleys are in high favor, III, 359.

Derwentwater, ballad by Allan Cunningham, IV, 116.

Derwentwater, Lord, ballad, IV, 115 ff.

Derwentwater’s Lights, IV, 117.

Les deux Fiancés, tale of French Brittany, V, 64.

Devil appears to counsel and take part in a murder, IV, 31.

Devil gives riddles, I, 4 f., =C=, =D=, and tasks, 14;
(represented imposes tasks and is baffled by the maid, 18 f., =I=;
the devil express, V, 283;
seeks to nonplus boy, I, 22, 485 b.

Devil takes lover to hell and shows him his mistress in torment,
Breton ballad, I, 426.

Devil would be a maid’s leman, V, 283.

Devonshire, Earl of, fights with a French or Dutch lord in defence of
Lord Delamere, IV, 111-115.

Diarmaid allows a hideous woman to come near his fire and under his
blanket, she is transformed into the most beautiful creature in
the world, Gaelic tale, I, 298;
cf. Irish story, V, 289 b.

Diarmaid and Grainne, West Highland Gaelic tale, I, 8.

Diarmaid and the Magic Boar, West Highland tale, II, 500.

Diarmaid’s wife tries the robe which is a test of chastity, Gaelic
ballad, I, 261 f.; V, 289.

Dicing for prisoners, III, 378 f.

Diderik, King, and Gunild, II, 36.

Dietrichs Flucht, IV, 463 b.

Dietrichsaga, I, 49.

Dieu vous saue, Dame Emme, song or ballad, II, 38 n.

Disenchantment effected by drinking of blood, or by drawing blood
from the bewitched, I, 178, 337, and n.;
by kisses given (or received from) a disgusting or terrible
creature, or by touching the same, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II,
502 b, 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290 a;
not completed without, often operated by, immersion in milk or
water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342, 344; II, 505 b; III,
505 b; V, 39 f.;
other processes or conditions, I, 313, 315; V, 215.

Disenchantment of hideous woman effected by obtaining absolute
sovereignty over a man’s will, I, 290-2, 295 f., 299;
by finding a man who would accept his life at her hands, kiss her,
and share her bed, 293;
by being admitted to a king’s or hero’s bed, 297 f.; V, 289 b;
by getting king’s brother for husband, I, 507 a;
disenchantment of seemingly ugly old man effected by gaining the
love of a beautiful girl, V, 213 a;
of linden-worm, snake, by being admitted to maid’s bed, I, 298;
II, 502 b; IV, 454 a (cf. V, 289 b);
of crocodile by girl’s licking his face, V, 215 b.

Disguises of outlaws, Fulk Fitz-Warine, Hereward, Eustace, Wallace,
Robin Hood, III, 109 f., 117 f., 178-82, 184, 191, 271, 273 f.;
other disguises, as beggar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f.;
as charcoal man, V, 6.

Dish made from ashes and bones of murdered man denounces the
murderers, I, 126.

Dissawar, Disaware, name borne by Prince Roswall and the Lord of Lorn
after exchanging positions with the steward, V, 44, 49, 55.

Dobrynya, Russian epic hero, V, 295 a.

Dodhead, the, IV, 5 f., 518 b; V, 249-51.

Dog who could indicate pregnant women, adulterers, etc., I, 270 n.

Dole-day, II, 436.

Dolopathos, Latin (and French) romance, I, 392.

Don Bueso, Catalan representative of Young Beichan, I, 462.

Don John of Austria meets the Earl of Westmoreland on the sea,
takes him to Seville and recommends him to the queen, III, 420
f.

Doon l’Alemanz, chanson de geste, II, 40.

Doors and windows thrown on a combatant to take him prisoner, III, 24.

Douglas. See under Family Names.

Douglas, Northumberland betrayed by, ballad, III, 408 ff.

Douglas, tragedy by Home, II, 263, and n., 264.

Douglas, Gavin, Palice of Honour, II, 136, V, 69 n.

Douglas, James, Earl, in the Scottish Otterburn alleged to have been
stabbed before the battle by one of his own men, or a boy whom
he had offended, III, 294, 299; V, 244;
in another version, to have gone into battle without his helmet,
III, 300;
challenges Percy to single combat in The Hunting of the Cheviot,
III, 308;
dreams that a dead man wins a fight and thinks that man is he, III,
300, IV, 501.

Douglas, Jamie, ballad, IV, 90 ff.

Douglas, Lady, of Lochleven, tries to protect the Earl of
Northumberland from the treachery of William Douglas, III,
411-3;
shows his chamberlain his English enemies waiting for him 150 miles
off through the hollow of her ring, 412.

Douglas, William, Earl of Angus, his encounter with the English at
Piperden, III, 305.

Douglas, William, knight of Liddesdale, III, 282 f., 284 f., 288.

Douglas, William, of Lochleven, III, 409, 411-14, 443 f., 446.

Douns Lioð, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.

D’Ouville, L’Élite des Contes du Sieur, I, 408; V, 96.

The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by A. Munday, III,
46, 122, 129, 130 n., 179, 218, 220, 227, 519 b; V, 100.

Dramatic representation of ballads by young people, I, 249; IV, 439
b; V, 90.

Dreams:
of bower full of red swine and bride-bed full of blood, II, 200;
room fu o red swine and bride’s bed daubd wi blude, II, 292;
chamber full of swine and bed full of blood, IV, 426;
bowr lin’d with white swine and brid-chamber full of blood, II,
202, =B=, 11;
chamber full of wild men’s wine and bride-bed stood in blood, II,
202, =C=, 4;
bower full of milk-white swans and bride’s bed full of blood, IV,
433;
of pulling green heather, IV, 164, 167-9, 171-5, 180 (heather
bell), 522; V, 255;
green birk, IV, 176;
apples green, IV, 523;
other dreams, II, 33 n., 41, 45, 205;
to dream of blood bodes ill, II, 292 f.;
to dream of ravens is the loss of a near friend, II, 293.

Die drei Brüder, tale, I, 125, 493 b.

Drink which causes forgetfulness, I, 363, and n., 364.

Drinking formulas, challenge and response, V, 71-73.

Drinking to friends upon the eve of execution, IV, 30 n.

Drolleries, nonplussing, I, 20-2, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b; IV, 440 b.

Drowned bodies, mode of discovering,
II, 143, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a.

Drum, Laird of, ballad, IV, 322 ff.

Drumclog, ballad, IV, 105 ff.

Drummond. See under Family Names.

Dsanglun, oder der Weise und der Thor, I, 11 n., 13.

Duel in which innocent boy of fifteen vanquishes false accuser of
thirty-three, IV, 371, 373.
See Child-champion.

Dumfounding, fool wins a princess by, I, 20, 485 a.

Dunbar, William, Of Sir Thomas Norray, III, 91;
God gif ye war John Thomsoneis man, V, 8.

Durham, Battle of, III, 282 ff.

Dwarf-king, hill-king, beguiles a princess; she has children by him,
though remaining with her mother; revealing the condition of
things she is forced to go to the hill, where she dies or
drinks a Lethean draught which makes her forget all her earlier
history, I, 362, 363, and n.;
woman lives in the hill and there has her children; after eight or
nine years is allowed to go home on terms; violating these, is
compelled to return to the hill, where she dies, or is given a
drink which induces forgetfulness, I, 363 f.
See Merman.

Dwarf Land, I, 259.

Dying man, woman, directs that father, mother, wife, etc., be kept in
ignorance of his, her, death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.;
III, 380 f., 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.

Earl of Toulouse, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.

Eating and drinking, personal contact, exchange of speech, etc., in
Elfland, or any abode of unearthly beings, perilous, I, 322-5,
327 f.; II, 505; IV, 455, 458.

Edda, the Elder (Sæmund’s):
Völuspá, I, 21;
Þrymskviða, I, 298;
Vafþrúðnismál, I, 13, 283 n., 404;
Grímnismál, I, 67;
Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419;
Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.;
Helgakviða Hundingsbana, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306;
Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392;
Sigrdrífumál, I, 392;
Sigurðarkviða Fafnisbana, III, 2, 127;
Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.

Edda, Snorri’s:
Gylfaginning, I, 283 n.;
Skáldskaparmál, I, 94 n., 283 n.; II, 127; IV, 479 b.

Der edle Moringer, I, 196, 459; V, 291 b.

Edward the III and the Tanner of Tamworth, play by T. Heywood,
V, 68 n.

Eger and Grime, Eger, Grime and Graysteel, romance,
I, 209; II, 56; III, 306.

Egil’s apple-shot, III, 16.

Egils Saga ok Ásmundar, IV, 443.

Eildon Tree, I, 320 n., 324, 325, 327.

Eindriði, III, 18, 20 n.

Der Eisenhans, tale, V, 46.

Der Eisenhofen, tale, I, 307 n.

Der eiserne Mann, tale, V, 46.

Eleanor, Queen of Henry II of England, III, 257 ff.;
of Edward I, 257.

Eleusinian priests, holy names of, V, 285 b.

Elf-dance, I, 375-77; IV, 459 a; V, 216 a.

Elfin knight haunts a hill, I, 15-7;
elfin knight sets a maid tasks to be done before she can marry him,
I, 15-17.

Elf-knight, hill-man, excites love-longing by the sound of his horn,
I, 15-17, 23, 55, 367.

Elf-queen would have taken out Tam Lin’s eyes and have put in eyes of
wood, I, 343, 345, 356.

Elf-queen and witches take out the heart of man and replace it with
straw, stone, etc., I, 339, 345, 347 f., 353, 356.

Elf-rod controls the will, I, 362.

Elf-shot, elf-stroke (==Elveskud), I, 374-7, 382, 385.

Élie de Saint-Gille and Rosamonde, I, 458 n.; III, 508 a, b.

Ellensborg, Stolt, Jomfrue (Ellen), Scandinavian representative of
Susie Pye, I, 459-61.

Elliot. See under Family names.

Elritch (eldrige) king haunts a hill in the night and fights with any
comer, II, 58 f.;
fighting with elritch or spectral knights, II, 511 a; III, 508.

Elves, mermaids, or water-nymphs:
ballads in which the results of dealing with or encountering them
prove fatal, I, 372-389;
inconstancy in relations with elves, mermaids, etc., has fatal
consequences, I, 372-5, 387-9;
elf threatens man with sickness, knives, death, if he will not
dance with her, I, 376 f.;
option of living with elves, marrying an elf, or dying, I, 377,
379, 381, 383 f.;
poison grains in drink given by elves, I, 375;
elf, hill-maid, mermaid, promises man wonderful gifts if he will
plight himself to her (dance with her), I, 314, 375, 376; III,
504 a; V, 214 b;
offers man shirt as love-token, V, 284;
elves, spirits and the like, reproaching or insulting, I, 21, 485
a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b;
elves and water-sprites desire help of mortal women at lying-in
time and in nursing, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV,
459 a; V, 215 b.
See also Elf-dance, Elfin, Elf-queen, Elf-rod, Elf-shot.

Emma, wife of Cnut the Great, her ordeal, and ballad concerning, II,
38, and n.

Enchantment, restoration from, after successive changes of shape, by
drawing blood, I, 337;
by drinking blood, etc., 337 n.;
victim of enchantment, inoffensive before, becomes fierce and
destructive, I, 289 f., 294 f., 316.

L’Enfant de Chœur de Notre-Dame du Puy, legend, III, 240.

Engelische Comedien und Tragedien, V, 97.

Englishmen warned not to come to Scotland for brides, IV, 219, 221
f., 224-8, 230.

Epithets (as Fair Margaret, Sweet William, Child Maurice):
Bold, I, 453; II, 320.
Bonny, II, 276; III, 447; IV, 52 f., 143, 233.
Burd, I, 256; II, 71, 87, 91, 97, 140; IV, 418-421; V, 227-9.
Child, Chil, Chiel, I, 62; II, 85, 128, 133, 263;
Child of Ell, I, 103;
child of Wynd, Childy Wynd==Child Owyne, I, 312 f.; II, 503 f.;
alternating with Gil, I, 62; II, 130, 263.
Clerk, I, 387-9; II, 158-161, 164 f.; IV, 385 f., 428, 468.
Dove (Dow), II, 97.
Fair, I, 341, 343, 345, 431; II, 63, 92, 100, 179, 200, 207, 212,
213, etc.
Hind, I, 187, 369 f.; II, 305.
Kemp, Kempy, I, 300, 306.
Love, II, 216 f., 220-3, 293, 369 f., 389, 395.
May, I, 22, 369; II, 158, 164, 232, 305; III, 452, 455; V, 257;
Maid Marian, III, 218.
Mild (Mile), II, 72, 315; III, 386, 395 f., 398; IV, 507 f., 510 f.
Sweet, I, 68; II, 97, 100, 168 f., 171, 179, 200, 226, 291, etc.
Young, I, 256, 367, 371, 432, 454; II, 51, 142, 282, 288, 343; III,
452, 454 f., etc.

Erl of Toulous, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.

Errol, Earl of, ballad, IV, 282 ff.

Essex, the young Earl of, V, 146.

Estmere, nuncio of King Adler, II, 50;
King, and brother of Adler, 51-5.

Ettrick Forest, V, 187-9, 191-7.

Eulenspiegel, I, 409.

Eulogium Historiarum, I, 157.

Eustace the Monk, III, 43, 53, 109, 191, 211, 476 n.

Evils, a hundred, enter into a man who has proved false in love, IV,
419.

Example-books, I, 292 n.

Fa, Faa, Faw, Foix, Faux, IV, 61-70;
Johnie, Jockie, Faa, 61-6, 68-70; IV, 513 b, 522 a; V, 188;
takes in one manuscript the place of Captain Car or of Edom o
Gordon, IV, 513 b.

Fabliaux: Le mantel mautaillié, Cort Mantel, I, 257, 266;
La mule sanz frein, I, 417 n.;
Du povre mercier, III, 54;
Du chevalier qui ooit la messe, etc., III, 96 n.;
Du chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, III, 258;
Le chevalier à l’espée, III, 508 a;
Des tresces, V, 22 f., n.;
Du chevalier à la corbeille, V, 121.

Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392.

Fair Annie of Kirkland, ballad of A. Cunningham’s, I, 436.

The Fair one of the Castle, Persian riddle poem, I, 417.

A fair pretty maiden she sat on her bed, IV, 439 b.

Fairies, euphemisms for, good damsels, good ladies, I, 314, gude
neighbors, I, 352 (cf. Romaic, I, 314 n.);
failure of a husband to rescue his wife who had been carried off
by, I, 336;
ride white steeds, I, 216, 323, 325, 339 f. (Tam Lin mounted, but
not the rest of the fairy train, 342, 344, 346, 348, 349, 351,
352, 355);
ride dapple-gray steeds, 324, 326;
fairies, water-spirits, etc., solicit help of mortal women at
lying-in time and as nurses, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505
f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b, 290 b;
fairy, at first appearance, taken for the Virgin, I, 319, 327; III,
504 a; IV, 455;
fairy salve applied to mortals’ eyes gives power of seeing fairies,
but is dangerous to use, I, 339; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, 290
a.

False luve, and hae ye played me this, IV, 210.

Family names, the principal:--
Argyll, III, 397; IV, 55-60, 99, 131, 135, 271; V, 252, 266;
Gleyd Argyle, IV, 55, 57-60, 135.
Armstrong, III, 363-71, 409, 419, 461-7, 469-83, 485 n.; IV, 432;
V, 298.
Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II, 244-8, 251
f., 256-8, 266-74.
Burnet, I, 453; IV, 82, 355-8. (Burnett for Barnard, II, 256.)
Campbell, III, 427, 435-8; IV, 56-59, 142-4, 514; V, 252. See
Argyll.
Cassilis, Earl of, IV, 62, 64-7, 70, 124, 133; V, 301.
Crichton, III, 458-60; IV, 39-47.
Douglas, III, 282-5, 288-301, 304 f., 307-14, 409, 411-14, 443-6;
IV, 36 f., 50, 90 f., 93-104, 499-501; V, 190, 227, 243 f.
Drummond, IV, 276, 282, 292.
Elliot, III, 370, 471, 473; IV, 5 f., 34; V, 249-51;
Martin Elliot, III, 409, 471; V, 249-51.
Fenwick (Fennick, Fenix, Phenix, Phœnix), II, 312, 442-55; IV, 140,
371-5.
Forbes, IV, 48 f., 51-3, 83, 86; V, 254.
Gordon (Huntly, Aboyne), III, 294, 296, 299, 301, 341, 345, 349,
378 f., 400, 424-6, 432-8, 447-9, 456 f.; IV, 39-47, 51-3,
80-7, 108 f., 124, 127, 129 f., 133-8, 295, 312-22, 333-8, 341
f., 344, 347-50, 500 f., 505, 513 f.; V, 165, 243 f., 247 f.,
254, 270-75, 301.
Graham (Græme, Gryme), I, 211; III, 299, 318; IV, 9-15, 76, 78,
105-7, 109 f., 146-8; IV, 157, 241 f., 267-9, 500, 518-20; V,
265, 300. See Montrose.
Hall, III, 485, 487-94; IV, 24-8, 517, 520 f.
Hamilton, III, 285, 341, 382, 384-97, 428, 431, 442; IV, 36, 38,
64, 106, 108, 163, 505-13; V, 187, 191, 193, 246 f., 298 f.
Hay, IV, 41 f., 45, 48, 127 f., 136, 233 f., 282-4, 286-91; V,
267-9, 301.
Howard, III, 335-7, 339-45, 348-56, 359, 377; IV, 503-7.
Hume, Home, III, 409, 412; IV, 12 f., 272 f., 281, 293 f., 296-8,
518; V, 270.
Lindsay, III, 291, 299, 301; IV, 256-66, 276-9, 500 f., 524; V, 243
f., 264 f.
Livingston, II, 312, 314 f.; III, 381, 382 n., 389 f.; IV, 29-33,
233, 235-8, 431-3; V, 227-9, 246, 261.
Macdonald (Macdonell), III, 316-19; IV, 256-66, 271 f., 274 f.,
524; V, 265-7.
Macgregor, Rob Roy, IV, 243, 246-53; V, 263 f.;
Rob Oig, IV, 243-54; V, 262-4;
James, IV, 243 f., 252;
Duncan, IV, 244;
Glengyle, IV, 245, 252.
Maxwell, III, 292, 296, 298, 310, 313, 485; IV, 34-38.
Murray, III, 298, 310; V, 185, 187-97, 307.
Neville, III, 283 f., 402-4, 406, 409, 417, 419-23.
Ogilvie, III, 316; IV, 55 f., 58, 333 f., 336-8; V, 252.
Percy, II, 383 f.; III, 282 f., 286, 289-301, 304 f., 307-14,
402-6, 409-14; IV, 500 f.; V, 243 f.
Scott, III, 297 f., 469-74; IV, 5-8, 34, 163 f.; V, 189, 249 f.
Scott of Buccleuch, III, 410, 417, 469-74; V, 186, 189.
Stanley, III, 328 f., 331-3, 354-9, 377 f.
Stuart, III, 298, 316; IV, 109, 425;
Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, IV, 55, 57-60; V, 252;
Francis, Earl of Bothwell, III, 449;
Henry, Earl of Darnley, III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401,
442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;
James, Earl of Murray, Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447;
James, the Bonny Earl of Murray, III, 447-9;
James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, IV, 116, 118-23; V, 255.
See Kings and Queens of England and Scotland.

Farce d’un Chauldronnier, V, 97 f.

The Farmer, his wife, and the open door, Indian tale, V, 281.

Farmer Weathersky, Norse tale, III, 507.

Farrow cow’s milk regarded as best, I, 224; II, 261.

Fascinating horn (harp), I, 15-17, 50, 55; IV, 441.

Fascinating song, I, 25, 28 b, 31-35, 37 f., 44, 485; IV, 441; V, 285
a.

Les Faveurs et les Disgraces de l’Amour, French tale from Bandello,
I, 269.

La Fée Urgèle, melodrama of Favart, I, 292.

The Felon Sow and the Friars of Richmond, I, 209 n.

Fenwick. See under Family Names.

La Fiancée du Mort, Breton tale, V, 303 b.

Fiddle, parts of maid’s body taken for, fiddle speaks, I, 494; IV,
449.

Fights, hand to hand, of Robin Hood or his men, duration of:
one hour, III, 64, 219;
two hours, 93, 138, 151;
three hours, 153;
six hours, 125, 166, 169;
a long summer’s day, 131.

Fikenild, Horn’s false friend, I, 188-90.

Filer le parfait amour, tale of Sénecé, I, 269.

Fin, Finn, Finns, I, 21; II, 494, 496 b. See Finns.

Fin, a diabolic personage or warlock, his wit-contest with Harpkin,
I, 21.

Finger cut off, of maid substituted for mistress, exhibited as token
of conquest of the mistress’s virtue, V, 22-4, 27.

Fingers knacked, knocked, cracked, wrung, for grief, II, 26, 312-15,
319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9. (Some passages
corrupted.)

Finn, Gaelic hero, his wife tries the robe which is the test of
chastity, I, 261 f.; cf. V, 289 a.

Finns, submarine, by donning seal-skin, enabled to ascend to land,
losing the skin become subject to the power of man like
swan-maidens, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.
See Fin.

Finsbury field, archery at, III, 197, 201, 203.

Fionn’s conversation with Ailbhe, I, 3.

Fionn’s Questions, Gaelic tale, I, 3.

Fire will not burn a maid accused but innocent; burns her guilty
mistress, II, 145 f., 148, 153, 155.

Fish, frying, fly out of the pan to attest the taking of
Constantinople by the Turks, I, 241; II, 501 b; IV, 452 a; V,
288 b.

Fitchers Vogel, tale, I, 47.

Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.

La Flauuto, French tale, I, 125.

La Fleur du Rocher, Breton story, III, 504.

Floamanna saga, II, 35 n.; V, 275.

Flodden, Battle of, III, 351 ff.

Floire et Blanceflor, Flor and Blancheflor, romance, I, 269; II, 500
a, 502 a, 510 b; V, 175.

La Flor del Lililá, Spanish tale, I, 125.

Florent, in Gower’s Confessio Amantis, I, 291 f.

Florentina, De Historia van, I, 268, 459 n.

Florimel’s girdle, I, 267, and n.

Das Flötenrohr, tale, III, 499.

Flowers, costume of, IV, 212-14; V, 258 f.

Flyting, baffling spirits by scolding, or by getting the last word,
I, 20-2, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.

Foiling mischievous sprites and ghosts by prolonging talk till the
time when they must go, IV, 440 b;
Thor detains Alvíss till after sunrise; being above ground at dawn,
he is turned to stone, I, 419.

Folk-drama, etc.
See Robin Hood, St. George.

Fool poses princess (and gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f., 485
a; II, 507 b.

Foot-ball match, II, 434 f.

Forbes, family of Drumminor at the battle of Harlaw, III, 319;
encounters of the Forbeses with Adam Gordon, III, 424-6;
burning of the house of Towie (or Corgarf), 424 f., 427;
family of Craigievar, IV, 51-3.
See under Family Names.

Foresters, fosters, III, 3-11, 28, 152, 176, 215; V, 74, and n.

Forgetfulness of earthly relations induced by draught administered to
a woman by hill-folk, I, 363, and n., 364;
man made by magical or other means to forget a first love, suddenly
restored to consciousness and to his predilection, I, 461, and
n.

Fornsvenskt Legendarium, I, 14 n., 237 n.; II, 2, 7 n.

Fortalicium Fidei of Espina, III, 239.

Forty Viziers, Turkish tales, I, 402; V, 13, 97.

Fountain springs where maid has been murdered, V, 287 a.

Fountains Abbey, III, 121, 123 f., 126.

The Four Elements, morality, II, 240; III, 42 n.

Frater i turski car, Croatian tale, I, 409.

Frau Tristerat of Savoy, horn of, meistergesang, I, 263.

Frendraught, Fire of, IV, 39 ff., 521 f.; V, 251, 301.

Frendraught, A Satyre against, etc., IV, 522.

Friar in the Well, The, ballad and tune, V, 100.

Friar of Orders Grey, Percy’s ballad, and ballads like it, II, 426
f.; V, 201.

Friar Tuck:
not a member of Robin Hood’s company in any old ballad, III, 43;
but in both the plays, 91, 127 f.,
in the latter representing the Curtal Friar of the ballad, who is
even called Friar Fuck in the title of one version, though not
in the ballad, 122;
simply named as of Robin Hood’s troop in two later ballads, 198,
209;
a character in the May-game, and perhaps the morris, 44-6;
Friar Tuck in Munday’s play, The Downfall of Robert Earl of
Huntington, III, 179, 519.

Friðþjófs saga, IV, 376.

Froissart, III, 283 n., 289-94, 337 n.; V, 297 b.

Fruit, eating of in subterranean garden, entails going to hell, I,
322, 324, 328 f.

Fulk Fitz-Warine, III, 40 n., 43, 49 n., 51, 53, 95, 109, 476 n.,
519.

The Fuller’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.

Le Fumeur de Hachich et sa femme, tale, V, 304 a.

La Furnarella, Italian tale==the ballad ‘Il Genovese,’ II, 502 a.

Fyvie, cheese of, as a love-potion, V, 305 b.

The Gaberlunyie man, V, 109 f., 115 f.

Gabs, brags, vows, I, 277, 281, 283, 285.

Galerent, romance, IV, 463 b.

Galien, romance, I, 274, 276 n., 278 n., 282 n., 507 a.

Gamble Gold, a pedlar, otherwise Gamwell of the greenwood, turns out
to be Robin Hood’s cousin (see Gamwell, Young), III, 155; V,
240.

Game-laws, offenders against (besides Robin Hood and his men), III,
3-11, 13 (?), 22.

Gamelyn, tale of, III, 12, 22, 51-3, 144.

Games, ballads turned into, I, 33 n.; II, 346; III, 516 b; IV, 439 b,
441 b.

Games: gallant rides at the ring; plays at the ba, and glove, III,
448;
girl plays at ring and ba, IV, 354, =A=, =b=, 1, 2.

Gamwel, Robin Hood’s mother of that name, III, 215.

Gamwell, Young, nephew of Robin Hood according to late ballads;
afterwards called Scarlet, Scadlock, III, 146, 150;
Gamwell of the green-wood, an apparent pedlar, is discovered to be
Robin Hood’s cousin, V, 240.
These, and Gamble Gold, III, 155, are the same person.

Gandelyn, III, 12-14.

Die Gänsemagd, Grimms’ German tale, V, 47;
Russian form, 281.

Garrett, Sir (==Sir Gareth), I, 295.

Garðaríki, I, 460 n.

Gasozein, gives himself out as Guenever’s first love, I, 279 n.

Gautier de Coincy, II, 13; III, 52 n., 239.

Gautier de Doulens (Gaucher de Dourdan), Conte du Graal, ugly lady
(Rosette) in, V, 289 b.

Gawain, I, 285, 289 f., 294-296; V, 289 b.

Gaya, Ramiro’s wife, V, 5 f.

Geiplur, Icelandic “rune,” I, 275, and n.

Gelô, IV, 443 a.

Genovefa, Die Legende von der Pfalzgräfin, II, 41, and n.

Genoveva, falsely accused of adultery, II, 41.

George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, a play by Robert Greene,
III, 129, 130, and n.;
George a Green, a prose history, III, 130.

Gerhard, the Good, I, 197, 459.

Geruth, the giant, I, 323.

Gervase of Tilbury, I, 339 n., 359; II, 56, 511.

Gesta Romanorum, I, 8, 13, 191 n., 268, 391, 393, 406, 416, 418 n.,
458 n.; II, 137, 502; III, 122.

Gestr the Blind (Odin) and King Heiðrekr, give each other riddles, I,
405.

Der getheilte Trauring, tale, I, 198.

Die getreue Frau, tale, I, 268 b, 4-6.

Le Geu des Trois Roys, mystery-play, II, 7 f.

Geyti shoots a nut from his brother’s head, III, 18.

Ghismonda and Guiscardo, in the Decameron, V, 29 ff., 303.

Ghost tears to pieces lover going from his mistress, and hangs a bit
over every seat in church, IV, 416;
ghost of mother would have torn daughter to pieces, V, 303 b.

Giant with five heads, II, 59;
with three on his neck and three on his breast, V, 184;
giant with three spans between his brows and three yards between
his shoulders, II, 394;
span between the eyes (brows) and three ells between the shoulders
in ‘The Wee Man,’ I, 332.

Gifts offered by elf, hill-troll, mermaid to obtain young man’s love,
I, 314, 375 f., 384; III, 504 a; V, 214.

Gigantic Scotsmen, IV, 397-9.

Gilbert of the White Hand, one of Robin Hood’s troop in the Gest,
III, 70, 76.

Gilbert Beket, his legend, I, 457.

The Gipsie Laddie, ballad made over by Percy, IV, 62.

Giraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, V, 13.

Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Cambriae, I, 320 n.; II, 513 a;
Speculum Ecclesiae, V, 72 f.

Girl enticed into an inn by the hostler’s wife and put at a man’s
disposal, V, 153-6.

Glammaðr, berserkr, IV, 443 a.

Glascurion (Chaucer), II, 136.

Glove, a game for braw gallants, III, 448, =A=, 5.

Glove, woman being unfit to dance, lover says he will cut his glove
in two and dance for both, II, 105, st. 18.

Gloves, golden-knobbed, II, 133;
siller-knapped, 134.

Gnúpr, IV, 502 a.

God be with thee, Geordie, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.

God offered as security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.

Golagros and Gawane, romance, I, 279 n.

Gold castles promised by knight to lady, I, 112.

Der Goldäpfelbaum und die Höllenfahrt, Greek tale, II, 509.

Golden apple thrown into the lap of a woman who has been made to
consort with hill-man or merman, and who has been granted leave
to visit her mother, to remind her of her obligations or to
enforce her return, I, 364 f.

The Golden Key or Ball, tale, with verses from the ballad of the
Maid Ransomed from the Gallows, II, 353-5; V, 201, 233.

Golden Legend, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505; II, 235, 507;
III, 51, 294 n.

Der goldene Apfel, tale, I, 125.

Das goldene Horn, meistergesang, I, 263.

Goldgerte, Greek tale, I, 338.

Goldsmith, Oliver, II, 276; III, 367.

Göngu-Hrólfs Saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.

Goodnights, IV, 36.

The Goose Girl, German tale, V, 47, 281.

Gordon.
See under Family Names.

Gordon, Adam, III, 424-6, 432-8; IV, 513 f.; V, 247 f.

Gordon, Duke of Gordon’s Daughter, ballad, IV, 332 ff.

Gordon, George, hero of the ballad of Geordie, IV, 124 ff.

Gordon, William, of Rothiemay, IV, 39 ff.

Gorm’s visit to Guthmund, I, 323.

Görtmicheel, robber story, I, 488.

Gorvömb, Icelandic tale, I, 507.

Gôsht-i Fryânô, tale in Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 506 f.

Gospels, apocryphal: Nicodemus, I, 239, 240 n.;
Thomas, Greek and Latin, II, 7;
Protevangelium of James, I, 271;
Pseudo-Matthew, 1, 271; II, 1, 2 n., 7.

Gower, Confessio Amantis, I, 10, 291, 292 n.; V, 285.

Graf Hubert von Kalw, German tale, I, 198.

Graham.
See under Family Names.

Graham, Bewick and, ballad, IV, 144 ff.

Graidhne and Fionn, I, 3;
Graidhne and Diarmaid, I, 8.

Gramarye, for magic, in King Estmere, II, 53-55, efficient to make
armor invulnerable, a man too formidable to be undertaken
(written on his forehead), and swords irresistible.

Gramatica Parda, Spanish story, I, 407.

Grame, Hughie, ballad, IV, 8 ff.

La gran conquista de ultramar, II, 43 n.

Grant, James, ballad, IV, 49 ff.

Grateful lion, I, 194 f.

Grave: boy directs that he shall be buried with Bible at his head,
chaunter at his feet, bow and arrows at his side, I, 438;
arrows at head, bent bow at feet, sword and buckler by his side, I,
440;
Bible at head, Testament at feet, III, 247-50 (also pen and ink at
every side, 247);
Bible at head, “busker” at feet, prayer-book by right side, Bible
at head, prayer-book at feet, III, 252;
Bible at head, Testament at feet, prayer-book at side, IV, 497 f.;
prayer-book at head, grammar at feet, V, 241;
Robin Hood wishes to be buried with sword at head, arrows at feet,
bow and metyard by his sides, III, 105; cf. III, 104; V, 297 b.

Grave (for two): Lay my lady on the upper hand (uppermost), for she
came of the better kin, II, 245, 247, 254.
Lay my lady on the sunny side because of her noble kin, II, 251;
IV, 477;
Bury my bully Grahame on the sunny side, for I’m sure he’s won
the victory, IV, 148;
Lay Munsgrove in the lowest flat, he’s deepest in the sin, II,
258.
(Coffin for two), Lay my lady at the right hand, for she’s come of
the noblest kin, II, 253, 255.

Grave, living person descends into, and remains, V, 285 b.

Grave to be made where arrow falls, I, 185.

Graves, flowers from, in Miracles of the Virgin, I, 98 f.

Graves, lovers’, plants and trees from, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200,
489 f., 492, 506 a; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198,
201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498; III, 498, 510 b,
515; IV, 443, 450 a, 465; V, 31, 207, 224, 226, 262, 285 f.

Gray, Thomas, II, 264.

The great bull of Bendy-law, V, 203.

The Great Michael, a remarkably large and strong ship, commanded by
Sir Robert Barton, III, 335 n.

Greek Anthology, V, 13.

Green, unlucky color, blue fortunate, II, 181 f., 184, 512; IV, 162;
Fair Annie, nevertheless is dressed in green, II, 196, and her men
and maids in green (in an Irish copy), 197 f.

The Green Knight (Bredbeddle), I, 286 f.

Die Greifenfeder, tale of Italian Tirol, I, 125.

Grief, excessive, for the dead destroys their peace, II, 228, 234-7,
512 f.; III, 513 b; V, 62 f., 294.

Grimms, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, I, 9, 14, 47, 125, 126, 198, 260
n., 408, 410; II, 127, 235, 502; IV, 17; V, 46 f.

Grímnismál, Edda, I, 67.

Grímr and Lopthæna, I, 292 f.;
Grímr consenting to three demands of a hideous woman, she
turns into his beautiful true-love, Lopthæna, who had been
transformed by her step-mother (Gríms saga Loðinkinna).

Gríms saga Loðinkinna, I, 292 f.

Der Grindkopf, Italian tale, II, 513 b.

Gromer, Sir, Sir Grummore Grummorsum, Gromer Somer Joure, etc., I,
289, and n., 290, and n.; V, 289 b.

Growth, marvellous, and other precociousness, especially in heroes of
tales and romances, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35
n., 80, 479 b; V, 226 a, 295 a.

Guapos, Spanish ballads of, III, 49.

Gudeman of Ballengeigh. I, 404.

Gudrun, I, 94 n., 95 n.
See Kudrun.

Guenever, Arthur’s queen, I, 257 f., 260-3, 271-3, 279 n., 283, 293,
296; II, 43 n.

Guerino, son of the King of Sicily, tale of Straparola, V, 46.

Guillaume d’Orenge, V, 298 a.

Guillaume de Palerne, romance, III, 505.

Guinevere.
See Guenever.

Guingamor, Lay of, V, 290 a.

Guiscardo and Ghismonda, Boccaccio’s tale, V, 29.

Gull-Þóris saga, IV, 502 a.

Gun charged with nine yards of chain beside other great shot, less
and more, III, 341; IV, 505.

Gundeberg, wife of King Arioald, accused of adultery, vindicated by
champion, II, 39.

Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, II, 37.

Gunild, Gunder, wife of Henry, Duke of Brunswick, II, 34-36;
Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, wife of the Emperor Henry III,
37.

Gunnlaugs saga, II, 35 n.; V, 298 a.

Gustav Adolf und der Abt von Benediktbeuern, tale, I, 408.

Guthmund, I, 323.

Gwion and Koridgwen, Welsh tale, I, 402; II, 506 b; III, 507 a; V,
216.

Gypsies, IV, 62-74; V, 190.

Gypsy Davy, IV, 67, 72, 74;
Gypsy Geordie, 70.

Die Hahnkrähe bei Breslau. Silesian tale, I, 196 n.

Haig, James, IV, 281.

Hair, worn loose or in a braid by maid, bound up by married woman,
II, 64 n., 69, 74 (=D= 3, =E= 3), 78 (5).

Hair, woman’s, added to a rope to lengthen it, I, 40;
man’s, III, 516 b;
sea-king’s daughter makes a rope of sixty ells’ length with her
hair; maid with hair a hundred fathoms long, I, 486 (both used
to draw a man out of a well or pit);
maid’s hair long enough to climb up by, I, 486 f.;
woman’s hair five quarters long, III, 437; IV, 167 f.;
man’s hair three, five, quarters long, IV, 172-4.

Hair:
woman ties her hair ronnd her dead husband’s, lover’s, waist, hand,
and carries, draws, him home, IV, 166-8; V, 255;
ties his hair (five quarters long) to her horse’s mane and trails
him home, IV, 173;
twines his hair (five quarters long) round her hand and draws him
out of a river, 174;
twines her hair about his waist and draws him out of a river, 179.

Hair of maid substituted for mistress cut off and exhibited as token
of conquest of the supposed mistress’s virtue, V, 22, and n.

Hálf’s, King, ship saved from foundering by man jumping overboard
(and drowning), II, 15.

Hálfs saga, I, 95.

Hall.
See under Family Names.

Hall, Dicky, delivers his brother Archie from jail, III, 487-9, 492-4;
he is assisted by Jocky Hall, III, 487-9;
Jocky is the leader and Dick second, 489 f., 491 f.

Hall, knights and others riding into, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a;
horses stabled in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 510 f.; III, 508 a.

Halloween, I, 342, 25, 344, 24, 345, 6, 346,
16, 347, 8, 349, 9, 351, 30, 352,
8, 507, 1, 2; III, 505, 11; IV,
456, 458 (eve of All Saints, when fairy folk ride);
hemp-seed sown by girls for a vision of their true love, V, 59, 286
a.

Hamilton.
See under Family Names.

Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrew’s, III, 442, 445 f.

Hamilton, Mary, maid of honor to Catharine, Tsar Peter’s wife, her
history, III, 382 f.;
agreements with the Scottish ballad, 383.

Hamilton, Mary, in the ballad, scorns the offer of life after having
been put to public shame, III, 386, 388;
historical foundation for the ballad of Mary Hamilton (No 299),
views of Andrew Lang, the affair of the Frenchman and the
Queen’s apothecary, V, 298 f.

Hamiltons in Russia, III, 382 f.

Hanpang and Ho, Chinese story, II, 498.

Hans ohne Sorgen, tale, I, 408, and n., 409 n.

Hans Sachs, I, 196 a, 267; II, 40 n., 42; III, 258; V, 210.

Haraldr Harðráðr, III, 17.

Hardy, Spence, Manual of Buddhism, I, 11 n.

Harlaw, Battle of, ballad, III, 316 ff.

Harp, power of, I, 216 f., 439; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; V, 220 b,
293 a;
everybody harped to sleep but the king’s daughter, etc., I, 55; II,
137, 139 f.; V, 220 b;
all the lords harped asleep, IV, 18-21;
Quintalin’s harp decoys women, I, 50;
harp, viol, or fiddle made from drowned maid’s body, I, 121 f.,
126-35;
or from tree into which the drowned girl had grown up, 121, 124,
493 b;
the instrument of itself, or when played upon, reveals that the
girl was drowned by her sister, 122, 126-35.

Harpkin, I, 21.

Harribie (Harraby Hill, about a mile from Carlisle, formerly the
place of execution), III, 463 f., 472.

Hass-Fru, Swedish tale, I, 461 n.

Hatherof==Athulf, Horn’s faithful friend, I, 192.

Hawk, riddle of: if not in good order, lady has been unfaithful, I,
191, and n.

Head, Halewijn’s, Roland’s, Gert Olbert’s, Jan Albert’s,
Schön-Albert’s, speaks after it is cut off, I, 25, 26, 30, 49,
485 f.

Heads of men who have failed in an enterprise displayed on castle
walls, or on palisades of stakes, with one place left, pour
encourager les autres, I, 417 n.; II, 507 b; III, 507 a; IV,
459 b; V, 291 a (three stakes for three adventurers, V, 216).