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Heads of thirty Portuguese sent home, salted, by Sir Andrew Barton,
to be eaten with bread, IV, 502, 505.

Heart, lover’s heart cut out and sent to his mistress by her father,
or husband, V, 29-38, 303;
the heart is sent cooked and is eaten by the lady, 31-34;
heart (stewed) of a girl given her husband by jealous wife, 34;
heart served by twelve husbands to their twelve wives, 34.

Hearts, children’s, man who had devoured nine would have power of
flying, I, 34 n.

Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio, ix, 8, V, 13.

Heimir, V, 243 b.

Heinrich von dem Türlîn, Der Mantel, I, 259 f.;
Diu Crône, 264, 266, 279 a.

Heiðreks saga, V, 8.

Heinz der Kellner, his Turandot, I, 418 a; II, 507 b; V, 291 a.

Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.

Helgakviða Hundingsbana, II, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306.

Helgi and Sigrún, II, 228, 235.

Heliodorus, Aethiopica, I, 270.

Hemingr and King Haraldr contend in feats: Hemingr shoots a nut from
his brother’s head, III, 17 f., 518 b.

Hemings Þáttr, III, 17, 19 n.

Hemp-seed sown by girls on the eve of All-Hallows to obtain a sight
of their true-love, V, 59, 286 a.

Henning Wulf’s apple-shot, III, 17.

Henri IV, La Partie de Chasse de, Collé’s drama, V, 75.

Henry V, of England, his conquest of France, ballad, III, 320 ff.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick, and his wife Gunild, II, 34-6.

Henry of Brunswick (Henry the Lion), Reinfrid of Brunswick, I, 194-6,
197 n., 459, 502 b.

Hereward the Saxon, III, 43, 109, 476 n.; V, 287 b.

Herod and St. Stephen, I, 233 ff.

Herodotus, I, 271; V, 212 b.

Herr Peder den rige, Scandinavian representative of Young Beichan,
I, 459-61.

Der Herr von Falkenstein, tale, I, 459 n.

Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.

Das Herz, Das Herzmäre, rhymed tale of Konrad von Würzburg, V, 33,
303 b.

Herzog Ernst, I, 197 n.

Herzog Heinrich der Löw, Historia, of Hans Sachs, I, 196; V, 210.

Hey trollie lollie love is jolly, from a Yule medley, IV, 93.

Heykar, Geschichte des weisen, I, 11 n., 12 f.

Heywood’s Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, I, 85.

Hideous woman will answer questions for Arthur (or other), whose
life is at stake if he does not give the right reply, only on
condition of her marrying Gawain, or the young man who is in
danger, I, 289, 291, 292, 294;
she turns into a beautiful young girl on being allowed to have her
own way, 290, 291, 292, 295 f.;
hideous woman, magically transformed, restored to her proper beauty
by being allowed to have her whole will, I, 293, 297-9;
hideous woman converted to beautiful one on being married to her
will, I, 507 a.
See V, 289 b.

Highlander induces a Lowland lass to marry him in spite of the
opposition of her parents, IV, 256-75, 524;
he pretends that his father is a shepherd, his mother a dey, etc.,
but after putting her to a severe trial turns out to be a
gentleman of wealth and importance, a Macdonald, 255-66, 524
(Donald, Earl of the Isle of Skye, 271 f., 274 f.);
Highlander preferred by girl to Lowland man or English, IV, 267;
Highlander induces girl to go with him regardless of her father’s
opposition, V, 165 f., 306.

Hildebrandslied, I, 196.

Hildesage, I, 94, and n., 95 n.

Hildina, in Shetland ballad, I, 94 n., 95 n.

Hill-king:
see Dwarf-king, Merman, Hind Etin.

Hill-maid promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to
her, I, 314, 375; III, 504 a; V, 214 b.

Hind to be spared by hunter, I, 178, 183, 502 a; II, 156 f.

Hind Etin represents the dwarf-king, elf-king, hill-king of
Scandinavian and German ballads, I, 361: Hind Etin (Young Akin)
seizes on a king’s daughter in a wood, keeps her seven years
in a cave, where she bears seven sons; the eldest one day asks
the father why his mother’s cheeks are always wet and learns
her story; hearing music while hunting he is moved to take his
mother and brother with him, and they come to the king’s gate;
they are kindly received, the wood is searched for the father,
who is found tearing his hair, and the family live happily at
court.
See Dwarf-king, Merman.

Hirlanda, volksbuch, II, 33 n., 43 n.

Das Hirtenbüblein, tale, I, 410.

L’Histoire de Moradbak, I, 11 n.

L’Histoire de Palanus, Comte de Lyon, prose romance, II, 42.

Histoire de Sinkarib et de ses deux Visirs, I, 11 n.

Historia de Nativitate Mariae et de Infantia Salvatoris,
II, 1, 2 n., 7.

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

Hjalmar, Odd and Anganty, II, 50.

Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 306 f., 315, 489 b.

Hobby Noble, chief in the rescue of John o the Side, III, 477-9;
helper, 479-83;
Hobie Noble betrayed to the English by Sim o the Mains, IV, 1.

Hobby-horse, III, 45, 47 f.

Hoccleve. See Occleve.

Hód, Hóde, the name, III, 47 n.

Holinshed, Chronicle of Scotland, II, 143; III, 2, 517.

Holofernes: Professor Bugge’s suggestion that the Halewyn ballad (No
4) is derived from his story, I, 51-54.

Home. See under Family Names.

Homer, Iliad, I, 84; III, 290 n., 306, 367;
Odyssey, I, 322 n., 338 n.; II, 441; III, 510 b; IV, 377;
Hymn to the Delian Apollo, I, 84.

Homildon, the battle of, alleged to have been “done” to requite the
death of Percy in the Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 304, 310,
313 f.

Hood==Odin, I, 95;
old Carl Hood, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.;
Auld palmer Hood, IV, 445;
Síðhöttr, Deephood, I, 95.

Hood, Thomas, his Lost Heir, III, 234 n.

Hoodening, Hood==Hooden==Woden (Kuhn), III, 48.

The Hoodie, Gaelic tale, I, 290 n., 503.

Horn of elfin-knight inspires maid with longing for him, I, 15-17,
55;
so Quintalin’s harp, 50;
boon of blowing on horn (often asked by man in difficulty or about
to be executed, and often three blasts), III, 122 f., 125, 166,
182; V, 2-6, 8, 127 (pipes, V, 3);
see, also, III, 157; V, 279;
witch’s horn, I, 315; V, 215;
hornblower, hornblâse==witch, I, 314;
horn which will furnish any liquor that is called for, I, 266;
horn filled with pure water, the water turns to the best of wine,
I, 263;
horn out of which no cuckold can drink, etc., I, 263 ff.;
horn and lease, tenure by, III, 360.

Horn, fastnachtspiel of the, I, 263.

Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, romance, I, 188, 191-3, 200, 269,
502 a; IV, 401; V, 287 b.

Horn et Rymenhild, French romance, I, 188, 190-3, 502 a.

Horn, Hind, ballad, I, 187 ff., etc.

Horn, King Horn, gest, I, 188-90, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401.

Horse, high-mettled, I, 199, and n.;
horse shod with silver before and gold behind, I, 341; II, 183,
185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224;
horse, old white cut-tail preferred to a choice among thirty fine
steeds, II, 444 f., 450, 453 f.;
Walter of Aquitaine’s worn-out charger, II, 441; III, 276.

Horses stabled by knights in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 54, 510 f.;
III, 508 a;
horses’ shoes reversed to deceive pursuers, III, 476 n., 479 f.,
487, 489;
youth torn by four wild horses on the false charge of a woman, V,
157;
patrons of horses, St. Stephen, St. Eloi, St. Antony, I, 235 f.

Horsley, William, a bowman employed by Lord Howard against Andrew
Barton, III, 339, 341-3, 345, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.

Host, the consecrated.
See Communion-bread.

House of Marr, IV, 157;
of the Rhodes, III, 433;
of Rothes, V, 247 f.

Housekeeping: lady’s preparations to receive her husband, IV, 312-17,
319 f.; V, 270 f., 301.

How Fraud made entrance into Russia, Russian tale, IV, 459 b.

How long and dreary is the night, air, IV, 302.

How the King of Estmure land married the King’s Daughter of
Westmure land, title in The Complaint of Scotland, II, 51 n.,
296.

Howard. See under Family Names.

Howard, Katherine, said to have exerted herself to procure Thomas
Cromwell’s death, III, 377.

Hrafn and Gunnlaugr, V, 298 a.

Hrólfs saga Kraka, I, 290 n., 297 n., 393, 489.

Hrómundar saga, I, 67, 95.

Hugdietrich, II, 50; IV, 463 b.

Huon de Bordeaux, I complementi della chanson d’, I, 502 a.

Hugh Spencer, the ballad, resembles in a general way Russian
bylinas, III, 276; IV, 499.
See Spenser.

Hugh Willoughby, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.

Hugo, Emperor of Greece, Charlemagne’s visit to, I, 275-9.

Hume.
See under Family Names.

Hume of Godscroft’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, III,
292; V, 202.

Hunt, an English captain, released on oath by Sir A. Barton, joins
Lord Howard in an attack on the Scot, trusting that God will
forgive his perjury, III, 340; IV, 504.

Hunter’s (J.) identification of Adam Bell, III, 21 f.;
of Robin Hood, III, 55 f.

Hunting of the Cheviot has the battle of Otterburn for its
foundation, III, 304.

Hyacinthus, flower from his blood, I, 99.

Hysmine and Hysminias of Eustathius (Eumathius), I, 270; II, 13 n.

Hystoria de la reyna Sebílla, Spanish tale, II, 40.

I cannot eat but little meat, song in Gammer Gurton’s Needle, V,
132 n.

I have a good old woman (wife) at home, tunes, III, 518.

I have a ȝong suster fer beȝondyn the se, riddle song, I, 415.

I have four sisters beyond the sea, riddle song, I, 415 n.

I sowed the seeds of love, song, V, 258 f.

Il’ja of Murom, captain of the march-keepers, will allow no one to
pass; has a fight with a young man who passes nevertheless; is
worsted at first: cf. Robin Hood and the Potter, IV, 497 a.

Images in church turn their backs when abandoned woman enters, I, 231;
so when merman comes in, I, 365 a;
everything bows when merman’s (human) wife enters, I, 365 b.

Importance of asking brother’s consent to marry, I, 497 f.

Incestuous connection, I, 185 f., 444-54; III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V,
210.

Ingenuity a transcendental virtue of Mahāyāna Buddhism, I, 11 n.

Innocent blood turns, every drop, to a burning candle, I, 172; II, 39
b.

Interest on loan not obligatory, but the security forfeitable in case
of non-payment, III, 52, 60 (85-7), 62 (121);
no interest paid by the knight to the abbot for the loan of £400
for a twelvemonth, III, 62;
present to Robin Hood of 20 mark for the same loan and time
(besides 100 bows and 100 sheaf of long and handsome arrows),
III, 62, 69.

Iouenn Kerménou, Breton story, III, 501.

Ipomydon, romance, II, 510 b; V, 47.

Iron band forged round a man’s waist as penance, I, 172;
man goes on pilgrimage, weighted with iron on hands and loins, II,
128.

It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat, V, 203.

Italian (Talliant, Tailliant), a champion, leaps over his adversary’s
head and is spitted, II, 378, 383, 385, 387 f.

Ivan Carevič i Marfa Carevena, Prince John and Princess Martha,
Russian tale, V, 281.

Ivanhoe, Scott’s, III, 43; V, 72 n.

Jacinth, refuses to be worn by adulterer, V, 289 a.

Jacques de Vitry, III, 54, 258 n.

James, Protevangelium of, I, 271.

James IV of Scotland threatens his queen with death for advising him
not to make war with England, III, 351 f.

Jane (Seymour), Queen of Henry VIII, her death in child-bed, ballad,
III, 372 ff.

Jātakas, V, 292 a.

Jehan de Paris, Le Romant de, I, 191 n.

Jehan et Blonde, Old French romance, I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.

Jews charged with crucifying Christian boys in contempt of Jesus,
III, 235-9, 241;
with murdering a boy for singing the praises of the Virgin, 239 f.;
with murders to obtain blood for use in Paschal rites, 240-243; IV,
497 a;
reason not specified, III, 243-54; IV, 497 f.; V, 241;
such murders the reason for the expulsion of Jews from France and
Spain, V, 241.

Jhonne Ermistrangis dance, III, 362 f.

Jock of Hazeldean, Scott’s, V, 160.

John II, the Good, of France, III, 283, 287; V, 132.

John of Atherly, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.

John o the Scales, V, 14 f.

John (Jock) o the Side, notorious thief, harbors the Countess of
Northumberland, III, 409, 419, 475;
taken in a raid and imprisoned at Newcastle, gallantly rescued by
Hobby Noble, 477-9;
by the Laird’s Jock, with Noble as a comrade, 479-83.

John the Reeve, rhymed tale, V, 69, and n., 71 n., 72 n., 73.

John (Joan) Thomson’s man, a history; Scottish proverb, V, 8.

Johnstone, Willy, of Wamphray, the Galliard, III, 458-60.

Johnstones, III, 296;
affray with the Crichtons, III, 458-60;
with the Maxwells, III, 485;
feuds with the Maxwells, IV, 34-8;
Sir James Johnstone killed by Lord Maxwell, 35, 51.

Joie des Bestes à la nouvelle de la naissance du Sauveur, I, 240 f.,
505 f.; II, 501 b; IV, 451 f.; V, 288 a.

Jonah, story of, perhaps the source of tales of ships arrested in
their progress by having guilty persons on board, I, 245; II,
14 n.

Jonson, Ben, Bartholomew Fair, IV, 302;
Discoveries, V, 285;
Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, III, 45;
his admiration of ‘Chevy Chase,’ III, 305.

Josefs Gedicht von den sieben Todsünden, II, 507 a.

Joseph, testy or suspicious towards Mary, II, 1-4, 6.

Joseph and Mary subjected to an ordeal of chastity, I, 271.

Joseph and the Angel, carol, II, 1.

Josephus, I, 404.

Joufrois, Old French romance, III, 508 a.

Jourdains de Blaivies, romance, IV, 502 b.

The Jovial Crew, ballad-opera, II, 127 n.; III, 133 n.

Joy of the beasts at the news of the birth of Christ, I, 240 f.,
505 f.; II, 501; IV, 452 a; V, 288 a.

Judas and the legend of the roasted cock, I, 240, 505 b;
Judas took tithes of all money that came into his hands, I, 242;
legend of the thirty pieces, in Wendish ballad, 242 f.;
in English ballad, 243 f.

Judicial combats, II, 34-40, 42 f., 46, 48; III, 508 a; IV, 371-3;
oath in, II, 35 n.; IV, 463 b;
qualified perjury in, II, 35.

Judith, the Old German, I, 51 n.

Judith and Holofernes, the relation of the story to Lady Isabel and
the Elf-Knight, I, 51.

Judith, wife of Louis le Débonnaire, accused of adultery, II, 43 n.

Der Jungherr und der treue Heinrich, rhymed tale, V, 39.

The Justice dealing with outlaws, III, 23-6.

Kalevala, I, 445 f.; II, 506 b, 507 b, 511 b; III, 367.

Kâlidâsa, II, 235.

Kämpa Dater, Nordiska, Björner’s, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.

Kanjur, Vinaya (Buddhist), I, 11 n., 12 n.

Karl der Grosse (Enenkels Weltbuch), I, 199 n.

Karl Meinet, II, 43 n.

Karlamagnus Saga, I, 275, and n.; II, 39 f.

Karodes, the mantle of, I, 261.

Kathá-sarit-ságara, I, 200 n., 268; II, 495, 502 a; IV, 454 a, 463 a,

Kay, Arthur’s steward, I, 245 f., 272;
Kay’s wife, I, 272.

Kay, Kempy, ballad, I, 300 ff., etc.

Ker, Captain.
See Car.

Keraint.
See Bardd.

Ketilbjörn, IV, 502 a.

Kidnapping women for compulsory marriage, IV, 232-54, 309 f., 424
(?); V, 261-4.

Kilhwch and Olwen, Welsh tale, I, 210, 279 n., 281 n.

King and subjects, meetings of, V, 69, 75, n.; 69-86;
king harbored by reeve, collier, shepherd, etc., 69-74, 84-86, 303
b;
his hosts have made free with his deer, 70-72, 85 f.;
munificence of the king, V, 70 f., 73-5, 77, 80, 83, 86.

King found before his gate, II, 52, 4.

King (queen) lets in maid (or other) that knocks, II, 387, 393, 459,
461 f., 471, 474 f.;
Lady, Lord Bangwill, Lord Barnard, Earl Percy, or some principal
person, does this, II, 150, 184, 186 f., 187, 190, 253, 266 f.,
284, 286, 383; IV, 467.

King visits Robin Hood in the disguise of an abbot, III, 74;
serves Robin Hood with a buffet upon Robin Hood’s missing the mark,
is recognized, and pardons the outlaws on condition of their
entering his service, 76.

King who regards himself as the richest, most magnificent, etc., in
the world is told that there is one who outstrips him, and
undertakes to see for himself whether this is so, threatening
death to the person who has affirmed his inferiority in case
this is disproved, I, 275, 279 n., 281, 282 f., 283, and n.;
III, 17 n., 503 b. Cf. Robin Hood, III, 124.

King, young, nice about choice of wife (or his guardians), and the
princess proposed to him won with difficulty, II, 51-5; IV, 463
b.

The King and the Barker, rhymed tale, V, 68, 69 n., 78.

The King and the Cobbler, a prose history, V, 74, and n.

The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Dodsley’s drama, V, 75.

King Alisaunder, romance, V, 297. See Alexander.

King Edward and the Hermit, rhymed tale, V, 72, and n.

King Edward Third and the Shepherd, rhymed tale, V, 71, 72 n.

King Edward the IIIJth and a Tanner of Tamworthe, A merye, pleasant,
and delectable history betwene, V, 68, 81.

King Heiðrekr and Gestr, their riddle-contest, I, 405, and n.

King Henry II and the Abbot, story in Giraldus Cambrensis, V, 72.

King Henry II and the Miller of Mansfield, V, 69, and n.

King Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of Reading, The pleasant History
of, I, 404.

King Horn, gest, I, 188-91, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401; V, 287.

King John and the Bishop, similar tales, I, 405-10; II, 506 f.; IV,
459 b; V, 216 a.

King Orfeo, romance and ballad, I, 215 ff.; II, 500; III, 502; IV,
451; V, 211.

King Rabssaldschal and his minister’s daughter-in-law, Tibetan tale,
I, 12 f.

King Ramiro, Southey’s ballad, V, 4 n.

Kinge and Miller, V, 69 n., 84.

King’s armor, knight’s wearing it in battle, III, 283 a; V, 297 b.

King’s receivers plundered by Robin Hood, III, 229.
See Robin Hood and Queen Katherine.

The King’s Son, Kraljev sin, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.

Kings and Queens of England:--
Charles I, IV, 56, 58-60?
Edward I, III, 43, 257; V, 69.
Edward II, III, 43, 55.
Edward III, III, 282, 284, 286 f.; V, 71, and n.
Edward IV, V, 68, 77, 83.
Edward VI, III, 378.
Edward, III, 73, 75, 78; V, 72.
Henry II, III, 257-64; IV, 498 f.; V, 69, 72 f., 84, 242.
Henry III, III, 236-9.
Henry IV, III, 21, 310, 313 (see 304); V, 67, 75.
Henry V, III, 21, 321-6.
Henry VII, III, 328, 331-3, 356.
Henry VIII, I, 404; III, 198-207, 335 f., 338 f., 342 f., 345, 348,
350-52, 354-6, 358-60, 373-7, 401; IV, 503, 506 f.; V, 74, 245
f.
Henry, IV, 17-22.
James I of England and VI of Scotland, III, 442-6, 448-50, 452-6.
James II of England and VII of Scotland, IV, 111-15.
John, I, 410-14.
Richard I, III, 220, 223, 227, 229-32, 508 b.
Richard III, III, 331-3, 356.
William III, V, 74.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II, III, 257-64; IV, 498; V,
241.
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I, III, 257.
Elizabeth, III, 406.
Jane Seymour, III, 372-6; V, 245 f.
Katherine, III, 198-204, 206 f.

Kings and Queens of Scotland:
Alexander III, II, 19.
David Bruce, III, 284-7.
James I, III, 309, 313 (see 304); V, 73 n.
James III, II, 19.
James IV, III, 351 f., 355, 359; V, 187 f.
James V, I, 404; III, 364-71, 411; V, 73 n., 74, 109.
(See James I, II, of England).
Margaret (James IV), III, 351 f.
Mary Stuart, III, 378, 381 f., 384-404, 424, 426, 442, 444, 446;
IV, 508-13; V, 246 f.
(Stuarts:--
Charles I, IV, 55 f.
James Francis Edward, IV, 116, 118-23; V, 255.
Prince Charlie, IV, 55-57, 60; V, 252.
Captain Stuart, IV, 109.
Lord Thomas Stuart, IV, 425).

Kinmont, Will Armstrong of, III, 469 ff.

Kiósut, Bulgarian tale, V, 281.

Kiss of courtesy, II, 435;
three kisses, to disenchant, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b, 504
f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290.

Kissing of fairies, etc., puts one in their power, I, 322, and n.,
325.

Kit o Thirske, a pedlar, beats Robin Hood in fight, III, 172.

Kitchie boy in ballads, II, 102, 114; IV, 403-5 (405, footboy), 407;
V, 34-8, 277 f.

Klephts, III, 49;
Giphtakis, III, 54;
Dimos, III, 104.

Die kluge Bauerntochter, kluge Dirne, kluge Hirtentochter, tales of
The Clever Wench, I, 8-12.

Knife which will serve four-and-twenty men at meat all at once, I,
266;
knife lost, figuring a lover, III, 501 a;
sheath and knife for mother and child, I, 183 f., 186; V, 210.

Knight who has forced a woman, to marry her if bachelor, be hanged if
married, II, 460 f., 464, (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.

The Knight of Curtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, romance, V, 33.

Knight of the Swan, Elias, III, 515 b.

Knighthood, distraint of, III, 51, 58.

Knots loosed in Scotland at marriage ceremony and at the approach of
parturition, so among Laps and Norwegians, I, 85.

Koadalan, Breton tale, I, 401, 402.

Kongen og Bonden, Danish tale, V, 74.

König Artus mit der Ehbrecher-brugk, Historia of Hans Sachs, I, 267.

König Rother, I, 197; IV, 463 b; V, 2.

Der Königssohn und der Bartlose, Greek tale, V, 281.

Korolevič i ego Djad’ka, The prince and his Guardian, Russian tale,
V, 281.

Korrigan, Breton fairy, refused by man whom she asked to marry her,
gives him the choice of dying in three days or languishing
seven (three) years, I, 379.

Kraljev sin, The King’s Son, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.

Kranzsingen, riddles, I, 2 n.

Kristni saga, I, 96.

Kron, das vasnachtspil mit der, I, 266.

Die Krone der Königin von Afion, meistergesang, I, 267.

Kudrun, II, 137 b.
See Gudrun.

Kullervo, story of, in Kalevala, I, 445.

Kung Lindorm, Swedish tale, I, 290 n.

Die Kunigin von Frankreich, dy der Marschalk gegen dem Kunig
versagen wart, u. s. w., meisterleid, II, 40.

Diu Kunigin von Frankrich und der ungetriuwe Marschalk, German
metrical tale, II, 40.

Den kydske Dronning, poem of Jeppe Jensen, II, 42.

Kyng Alisaunder, romance, II, 511 b; III, 306; V, 297.

Kyng of Tars, romance, II, 511 b.

Kyng Orfew, romance, I, 216.

Kynge Henry the IIIJth and the Tanner of Tamowthe, The story of, V,
67.

Kytice z básní, Polish tale, V, 60 b.

La Fontaine, I, 265; III, 258; V, 13.

The Lad with the Skin Coverings, Gaelic tale, V, 216 a.

Lady goes in search of lover; warned by Billy Blin or fairy that
that very day or the morrow is to be his wedding day, I, 456;
lady leaps the castle-wall and is caught by her lover, II, 407, 409
f., 413;
lady solicited by knight discovered to be his sister, II, 481.

Lady Bessy, a ballad-history of Henry VII’s compassing the crown of
England, III, 331, 354 n., 378.

Lai de Doon, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.

Lai de Guigemar, IV, 377.

Lai d’Ignaurès, V, 34.

Lai de Lanval, I, 339; II, 510 b.

Lai d’Orphée. See Lay of Orfeo.

Lai de Tydorel, II, 505.

Lai d’Yonec, V, 39.

Lai de l’Espine, II, 500 a, 511 a.

Lai del Fraisne, II, 67 f.;
old English version, Lay le Freine, I, 216; II, 67 n.

Lai du Corn, I, 262 f.; II, 43 n., 511 b.

The Laird’s Jock (probable nephew of Johnie Armstrong) III, 462 f.;
rescues Jock o the Side, 479-83.

Lancelot, the Dutch, I, 260.

Lancelot, the French prose, I, 257 n., 267.

Lancelot, Sir, I, 295.

Lancilotto del Lago, I, 267.

Landres rímur, II, 40.

Lanet, I, 261, 266 f.

Lanethen Mantel, meistergesang, I, 261, 267.

Lanzelet, of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, I, 260, 308, 338.

Lass o Livingston, a song, IV, 232 n.

Last word, importance of getting, when contending with mischievous
personages and in wit-contests generally, I, 11, 20-2, 485;
III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.

Launfal, I, 320 n., 339; II, 510 b.

Lay of Orfeo, I, 216; II, 500 a.

Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, Roxby’s, IV, 25.

Layamon, I, 67 n.

Lazarus.
See Dives and Lazarus, No 56 (II, 10 ff., etc.).

Leaf sent down a stream by a maid to warn mother, sister, that she
is in danger, I, 40 b, 487 a.

Learning unco lair (lear), II, 118 f., 174, 178; III, 385; IV, 411;
467.

Leather, corpses enclosed in, III, 352 f.; IV, 507 a; V, 298 a.

Left shoulder.
See Shoulder.

Legenda Aurea, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505 a; II, 235,
507 a; III, 51, 294 n.

Legitimacy of children, test of, by swinging or dipping them in the
Rhine, I, 271 n.

“Lenore,” ballads and tales, I, 487 n.; V, 59-67, 303 b.

Leper, black beggar, young lad, thrall, scullion, dwarf, put
into noble lady’s bed, or introduced into her chamber, to
incriminate her, II, 39-42, 44, 47.

Leprosy, blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for, I, 47, 50
n.; IV, 441 b; V, 285.

Die Lerche, Kirghish lay, II, 506 b.

Leys, Baron of, ballad, IV, 355 ff.

Libeaus Desconeus, romance, I, 308; V, 290 a;
its relations to the ballad of the Earl of Westmoreland (No 177),
V, 299 b.

Liddesdale, Knight of, ballad, III, 288.

The lie freely given in ballads, III, 367; V, 298 a.

Light kindles where innocent blood falls, I, 172; II, 39 b; V, 287 a.

Lilies spring from innocent man’s grave, I, 143.

Lilliard at Ancrum Muir, III, 306.

Lin, Linn, etc., stock ballad-locality.
See Lin, in the Glossary, V, 354.

Lincoln, Linkum, stock ballad-locality.
See Linkum, in the Glossary, V, 543.

Lindsay.
See under Family Names.

Lind-worm offers gifts to persuade a young woman to become his love,
I, 314.

Lion killed by Sir Cawline without a weapon, by thrusting mantle in
lion’s mouth and holding him to the wall, II, 60;
tearing out of lion’s heart by Richard Cœur de Lion, III, 508 b;
London Prentice, the hearts of two lions, III, 508 b;
Cuculin pulls liver and lights out of the throats of two lions, IV,
463 b.

Lions in Scotland, II, 407, 409; III, 517 b.

Little Billee, Thackeray, I, 457 n.; IV, 370 n.

The Little Boy with the Secret and his Little Sword, Magyar tale,
I, 11 n.

Little John:
is Robin Hood’s principal comrade, III, 41, 56 ff.;
brings in the knight to Robin Hood’s lodge, 57;
is lent to the knight as servant, 60;
lent to the sheriff, whom he plunders and decoys into the hands of
Robin Hood, 63-66;
brings in the monk, 67 f.;
takes part in the sheriff’s shooting-match, is wounded in the
subsequent fight and carried off by Much, 70 f.;
roughly treated by Robin Hood, leaves him, and is made prisoner by
the sheriff, 92;
rescued by Robin Hood, 94;
quarreled with and struck by Robin Hood, leaves his service, 97;
is the only man that has his wits and courage when Robin Hood is
taken prisoner, 98;
kills the monk who has informed against Robin Hood, and rescues his
master, behaving with singular nobleness, 99 f.
See, also, 124 f., 127.
Later ballads:
beats Robin Hood in a fight and is taken into his troop, III, 135;
other fights of his, 137 (see, also, 228);
Little John disguised as a beggar attempts to join himself to
four beggars, is ill received by them, beats them and takes
£603 from them, III, 190;
Little John finds his match or superior, III, 109, 130, 155, 166
f., 169, 171.
Little John appears in the May-game, not apparently in the
morris-dance, III, 44-6.

Livingston. See under Family Names.

Loan miraculously restored, III, 52 n.; V, 297 a.

Localizing of ballad-stories, I, 24, 99, 173, 210, 340; II, 264, 321;
V, 287 a.

Locksly, Nottinghamshire, the birthplace of Robin Hood, III, 215.

Logan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, a song, IV, 184 n.

Logie, Laird of, III, 449 ff., 520; IV, 515 f.; V, 299 f.

Long Lonkin, tale, V, 295 b.

Lord Derwentwater’s Goodnight, ballad by Robert Surtees, IV, 116.

Lord Livingston, Pinkerton’s ballad, IV, 432.

Loudon Hill, ballad, IV, 105 ff.

Loudoun Castle, III, 435-8.

Lousing of knight by maid, I, 27, 28, 32, 37, 46, 487, and n., 488;
IV, 440 b; V, 285 a.

Lovely, Leeve, London, III, 306.

Lover runs mad after the death of his mistress, II, 110, 124;
throws himself into bonfire after his mistress has been burned, II,
115, 121;
woman goes mad after lover and husband have killed one another, II,
130 f., 133;
after the death of lover, 169.

Lover’s tryst with a lady anticipated by a low fellow, I, 137-41.

Lovmand, Lagman, representative of Horn in Danish and Swedish
ballads, I, 193 f.

The Lowlands of Holland, a song, II, 156, 317, and n.; V, 229 b.

Loxly, assumed, or secondary, name of Robin Hood, III, 197 f., 201,
209.

L.P., signature of No 147, III, 208, 210; III, 518 a, 519 a;
indicating Laurence Price.

Lucian, De Luctu, II, 236.

Ludie, daughter of the emir of Orbrie, V, 6.

Ludus Sancti Jacobi, Provençal mystery, I, 238.

Lunet, Laneth, I, 261.

Der Luneten Mantel, fastnachtspiel, I, 261, 267.

Lyne, brig o, II, 290.

Lynn, stock ballad-locality.
See Lin in the Glossary, V, 354.

Mabinogion, I, 210, 266 n., 279 n., 281 n.; II, 51; V, 24 n., 216 a.

Mable, Book of, a prophetical book, III, 420, 422.

Macaire, romance, II, 40.

Macdonald.
See under Family Names.

Macgill of Lindores fights an Italian gladiator, II, 378.

Macgregor.
See under Family Names.

Madel, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 67.

Madonna substituted for Lazarus in the legend of Dives and Lazarus,
II, 10;
Madonna and Jesus, III, 507 b.

Magdalen, legend of, I, 228 f.;
in southern ballads, I, 231 f., 504 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V,
288 a;
singular episode from, in Golden Legend and in Digby Mystery of
Mary Magdalene, I, 245 n.;
legend of Magdalen blended with story of the Samaritan woman and
with that of the Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III,
502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a.

Mágus saga, I, 283 n.

Mahābhārata, II, 495; V, 294.

Maid cuts off her pap to release a man from a serpent and heal the
wound made in his body, the pap grows apace when she bears a
son, V, 177;
maid leaps from castle wall into lover’s arms, II, 410, 413;
maid solicited by a man tricks him, and when safe jeers at him, II,
480-93;
maid (noble), to vex knight who has been adjudged to marry her,
pretends to be a carl’s daughter, beggar’s daughter, II, 462-4,
467, 469 f., 471 f., 473 f., 476; IV, 494; V, 238 f.;
maid who has eloped with a pretended lover forced by him to strip,
I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496
b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442;
maid will not give her faith to two brothers successively, I, 89,
91, 376, 378 n.

Maid Marian, in ballads, III, 43, 46;
simply mentioned, 198, 209;
disguised, fights with Robin Hood disguised, 219;
in May-game and morris, 44-6;
in the plays of The Downfall and the Death of Robert Earl of
Huntington, 46, 519.

Mallet, David, and his Margaret’s Ghost, II, 199 f.; V, 294 a.

Malleus Maleficarum, I, 489; III, 18.

Malory’s King Arthur (Morte Darthur), I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, 289 b;
298 a.

Man in danger of his life dressed by landlady as woman and set to
baking, IV, 151-4;
man preparing to hang himself finds money, leaves the rope, with
which the owner of the money hangs himself, V, 13;
man who flies from home on account of enormous crime, in his
desperation commits his relations to miserable fates, I, 169
f., 445;
man who has assaulted maid, to marry her, if bachelor, be hanged,
if married, II, 460 f., 464 (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.

Mandeville, Sir John, his (fictitious) Voyage and Travel, I, 308;
III, 501; V, 209.

Les Manteaux, Caylus, I, 257.

Der Mantel of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 259 f.

Le Mantel Mautaillié, fabliau, I, 257.

Mantle and costumes enclosed between two nut-shells, I, 260, and n.,
271.

Mantle, as chastity chest.
See The Boy and the Mantle, No 29, I, 257 ff., etc.;
Gaelic ballad of the mantle, I, 261 f.; V, 289 a;
the mantle of Karodes, I, 261.

Mantle Rhymes, see Skikkju Rímur, I, 264 n.

Már fights when both his hands are off, IV, 502 a.

Margaret Twynstoun, Twinslace, Vinstar, Weiksterne, frees her lover,
Wemyss of Logie, condemned to death, by taking him through the
royal bedchamber and letting him down from a window, III, 449
f., 452-5.

Margaret’s Ghost, David Mallet, II, 199 f.; V, 294 a.

Le Mari Confesseur, conte of La Fontaine, III, 258.

Marie de France,
Lai del Freisne, II, 67 f.;
Lanval, II, 510;
Guigemar, IV, 377;
Yonec, V, 39.

Marineo, Lucio, I, 238.

Maríu saga, I, 98; III, 52 n., 240.

Markenfield (Martinfield), Thomas, III, 418-22;
knows every banner, whether any man he has laid eyes on is friend
or foe, can speak any language, and has the gift of prophecy,
419 f.

Marko Kraljević, II, 357; III, 499 a, 507 b; IV, 463 b.

Marr, house of, IV, 157.

Marramiles, one of Arthur’s knights, I, 279, 284, 287.

Marriage ceremony interrupted by lover, who takes the bride, IV,
412-14.

Marriage, forced, justified as happiest, IV, 244.

Marriage:
maid to wait, lover absent, seven (eight, nine) years and not
marry, I, 189 f., 192-4, 459, 502 b;
maid and man parting, neither to marry for seven years, I, 191 n.,
464 f., 473, 477, 480; II, 508; IV, 461;
man gives his troth to woman to marry no other for seven years, I,
469 f.;
man parting with his wife engages her not to marry again for seven
years, I, 195 f., 198, 200 n., 462 (three cases);
for three, five, six, eight, nine or twelve years, nine years and
nine days, year month and day, I, 194, 197, 199, 200 (and 499),
461;
Epirot and Albanian custom of betrothing or marrying early in youth
and parting for long periods, I, 502.

Marriage, second, of wife prevented by sudden (often miraculous)
return of husband, I, 194-200, 502 f.; II, 499 b; III, 501; IV,
450 b; V, 210 b;
betrothed maid arrests marriage of lover to another woman, I, 502 f.

Marriage-contract, seigneur miraculously conveyed home on the eve of
his wife’s marrying identifies himself by producing one half of
his marriage-contract, which fits the other half left with his
wife, II, 499 b.

Marriages, unequal:
serving man preferred by Lord Arundel’s daughter to Lord Phenix,
II, 441-55;
lady refuses nine gentlemen for servant-lad, ploughman, IV, 172 f.,
522; V, 255;
Earl of Wigton’s daughter marries footman, IV, 292-9; V, 270;
lady of birth and fame loves a kitchenboy, IV, 403-8; V, 277 f.

Martial, Epigrams, IV, 186.

Mary, Mild, II, 309, 315;
Mary Mild, Myle, Moil, II, 72; III, 386, 395 f., 398 a; IV, 507 f.,
510 f.;
Mary Miles (corruptly), IV, 511;
maidens mild, II, 312, 314, 316; V, 227.

Masenžny Dzjadok, White Russian tale, V, 281.

Mass, forced, exacted by Robin Hood, III, 192, 199, 202, 228.

Massinger, The Picture, I, 269.

Matthew, apocryphal Gospel of, I, 271; III, 1, 2 n., 7.

Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, II, 37, 143; III, 235, 241, 519.

Matilda Fitzwalter, Maid Marian, III, 56 n., 214, 218, 519.

Matildas, three, popularly supposed to have been persecuted by King
John, III, 519.

Maximilian II (Emperor) and a charcoal-burner, Bohemian tale, V, 75.

Maxwells:
affray with the Johnstones, III, 485;
feuds with the Johnstones, IV, 34-8;
Lord Maxwell kills Sir James Johnstone, IV, 35;
Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight, ballad, IV, 34 ff.
See under Family Names.

May-game, III, 44-46.

Meilyr, story of, in Giraldus Cambrensis, his ability to expose lies,
I, 320 n.

Meisterlieder der Kolmarer Handschrift, I, 269, 270.

Meldrum, Squire, III, 306 n.

Mellerstain, Laird of, ballad, IV, 281 f.

Mélusine, romance, V, 226 a.

Mem and Zin, Kurdish poem, I, 98.

Memering, Mimmering, Mimmer, Mimecan, smallest of men, champion of
Gunild, II, 34-8.

La menta y’l Gaitx, Catalan tale, n, 510.

Merfolk apt to be ferocious, I, 366 n. (see 365 b, 366 a).

Merlin, Roman de Merlin, I, 257 n.; II, 113; IV, 454 a (English prose
romance);
(in Arthour and Merlin), IV, 479 b.

Mermaid, sight of, bad omen for ships, II, 19, 29 f., 32, 510 b; V,
149-52;
one has betrayed seven ships, II, 19.

Mermaiden affects man with some mortal ailment, I, 387-9 (probably
incited thereto by his inconstancy: see I, 372).

Merman entering church, all the images turn their backs; when woman
who has perforce been the merman’s consort enters church,
everything in it bows, I, 365.

Merman takes maid (princess) to the sea-bottom, where she lives some
eight years and has children; hearing the bells of home, she
longs to go to her mother and is allowed to pay her a visit,
taking her children with her; merman comes for her, she refuses
to return; merman says they must divide the children, three and
three each, and half of the seventh, I, 364 f.;
merman tears the children to pieces and hangs himself, 366.
See Dwarf-king.

Merman’s human wife, allowed to visit her mother, must not bow when
the priest pronounces the holy name, or make an offering, I,
364;
must not stay for the benediction, 366.

Message (deceptive) from dying man or woman to father, mother, etc.,
or prohibition of information to these of fact or manner of
death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f.,
387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460 a, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.

Message repeated, II, 265 f., 268 f., 270, 272, 366;
message sent down a stream by a leaf, or linden shavings, I, 40 b,
487 a.

Messer Guiglielmo Rossiglione and Messer Guiglielmo Guardastagno,
Boccaccio’s tale of, V, 33.

Messer Torello, Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197.

Messire Gauvain, ou la Vengeance de Raguidel, romance, I, 257 n.,
260; II, 51.

Mestermø, Norse tale, Asbjørnsen, I, 461 n.

Metyard, archer’s, III, 103 n.; V, 297 a.

Midge, the Miller’s son, III, 202, 204.
See 197, and Much.

Mikkels Arvegods, I, 144 b.

Mild Mary.
See Mary.

Milk running from reputed maid’s breasts, I, 102 f., 179, 363.

Milk, wash my son in, I, 71, (and lay him in silk) 74, 79 f., (and
dress in silk) 221; II, 89, 91, 100, 408, 425, (and row in
silk) 426.

Les Mille et un Jours, I, 282, 283 n., 417; II, 43 n., 499; V, 13.

Les Mille et un Quart d’heure, Contes Tartares, V, 13.

Miller, monk, without cares, sans souci, ohne Sorgen, utan all sorg,
senza pinseri, pensà, sem cuidados, I, 408 f.; II, 507.

Miller and King, V, 69 n.

The Miller of Mansfield, in Sherwood, and Henry the Second, King of
England, The Pleasant History of, V, 69 n., 84.

The Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood and K. Henry the Second, etc.,
a pleasant new ballad of, V, 69 n.

Millers, priests, shepherds, etc., nothing else left in England, at
epoch of Durham and of Flodden Field, III, 282, and n., 284-6,
352.

Mills which grind sugar and cinnamon, mace and cloves, I, 113;
cinnamon, II, 65.

Milon, steward, false accuser of Olif, wife of King Hugo, II, 39 f.

Mimecan, dwarf, champion of Gunhild, II, 37 f.

Mint cursed for not concealing Joseph and Mary, II, 8 n.

Miracle de la Marquise de Gaudine, II, 42.

Miracles. See Light, Fountain, Lilies.

Miracles following the murder of a Christian boy by the Jews, III,
235, 237-40, 244 f., 247 f., 252; V, 241;
the desecration of the Host, III, 240, 242 n.

Miracles of the Virgin, II, 7 n., 8, 13, 16, 42; III, 52, 239 f.; V,
23 n.

Un Miracolo di tre Pellegrini, play, I, 238.

Miragaia, romance of Almeida-Garrett, V, 6.

Mittagsfrau, I, 484 a.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, Noon-sprite.

Mitton, bailiff of Shrewsbury, knows no king but him that wears the
crown, III, 332 f.

Modi of Reynes, accepted suitor of Rymenhild, I, 189.

Modun, Moging, to marry Rimild, Riminild, Horn’s love, I, 191 f.

Money given by maid to lover with whom she is eloping, I, 183; II,
369, 371, 406 f., 410.

Monk, miller, without cares, I, 408 f.; II, 507.

Monmouth, Duke of, IV, 108-10.

Montrose, IV, 51-3, 55 n., 57, 77-9.

Moon, new, with old moon in her arm, sign of storm, II, 20-27, 29, 30.

Moradbak, l’histoire de, I, 11 n.

Moran (Murando), Piedmontese representative of young Beichan, I, 462.

Mordred, Arthur’s nephew, his death, V, 298 a.

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

Morris dance, III, 44 f.

Morte Arthur, II, 510 b.

Morte Darthur, Malory, I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, 298 b, 298 a.

Morton, Earl of, III, 443, 445 f.

Möttuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.

Mourning, excessive.
See Tears.

Le Moyen de parvenir, III, 159.

Much (the Miller’s son), an original comrade of Robin Hood, III, 56,
59 f., 66, 70;
carries off the wounded Little John on his back, 71; 97, 99;
companion with Little John in killing the monk and the rescue of
Robin Hood, 98-100;
Midge, the Miller’s son, III, 197, 202, 204;
Much the Miller’s son, made one of the party that rescue John o the
Side, III, 478 f., 483.

La Mule sanz frain, fabliau, I, 417 n.

Der Müller ohne Sorgen, I, 409. See Miller.

Mummers’ play of St. George, V, 291.

Munday, A., his play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington,
III, 46, 129, 179, 519 b; V, 100;
his pageant Metropolis Coronata, V, 297 a.

Munday, A., and Chettle, H., play of The Death of Robert Earl of
Huntington, III, 129, 519 b.

Murder, compensation in money for, II, 297 f.;
disclosed by harp or fiddle made or furnished from parts of the
body, or by pipe made from bone, or from plant growing from the
body, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9;
V, 208 b, 286 a.

Murder, revenge for, II, 297 f., 300 f., 304-7.

Murdered boy appears immediately as bird and reveals that his brother
had killed him, I, 126.

Murdered man’s body will emit blood upon being touched or approached
by the murderer, II, 143.

Murray.
See under Family Names.

Murray, Bonny Earl of, murder of at Donibristle, III, 447-9, 456.

Murray, The Outlaw, ballad, V, 185 ff.

Murray, Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447.

Murray, Morrow==Moor, black, V, 189 n.

Music, harp, pipe, flute, song, powerful effects of, on animate and
inanimate nature, II, 137;
soporific influence, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21; V,
220 b, 293 a;
music, seductive, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17; 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37
f., 44, 50, 55, 367, 485; IV, 441; V, 285.

Mužíčenko s Kulačenko, The little Peasant, Russian tale, V, 281.

Mythical interpretations of the story of Adam Bell, etc., and of
Robin Hood, III, 21, and n.; 47 f., and notes.

Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I, 265 n.; III, 498 a.

Mærþöll, Icelandic fairy tale, I, 392.

Naisi (Naois) and Deirdre, Gaelic story, III, 498 b.

Naked man, injured husband will not kill a, II, 245, 247-9, 251,
253-6, 258; IV, 477 f.

Naming, enfeebling or destructive effects of, on men engaged in
fight, on the devil, trolls, nixes, the horse Blak, a berserkr,
the avenging sword, enchantment, etc., I, 3, 5, 89-92, 95 f.,
489 b; III, 498 a; IV, 443 a; V, 207 b, 285 b.

Nashe, Thomas, III, 461.

Nasr-eddin Hodja, Les plaisanteries de, Turkish tale from, I, 410.

Neh-Manzer, ou Les Neuf Loges, Persian tale, I, 489 a.

Nereid, captured by resolute perseverance, despite changes of shape,
I, 337.

Nereids, Greek, likeness to northern elves and fairies, I, 314;
euphemistic titles for, _ib._, and n.;
special trees endanger taking by, for those who lie under them, I,
340.

Net, riddle of: if net has taken fish, lady has been unfaithful, I,
191 n.

Neville.
See under Family Names.

Newborn (unborn) children speak, III, 367, and n.; IV, 507 a.

Nibelungenlied, II, 143, 236.

Nicodemus, gospel of, I, 239, 240 n.

Nighean Righ fo Thuinn, The Daughter of King Underwaves, Gaelic tale,
I, 297 f.

El niño de Guardia, El santo niño de la Guardia, III, 241 b; IV,
497 a.

Nisami, his poem of The Seven Figures or Beauties, I, 417.

Nix killed by maid with a knife, I, 23 n.

No Song, no Supper, musical entertainment, by Prince Hoare, V, 96.

Noble, Hobie, ballad, IV, 1 ff.

Nonplussing:
fool wins princess by dumfounding her, I, 20, 418 a, 485 a; II, 507
b;
carlin foiled by boy getting the last word, I, 20; III, 496 a;
Fin by Harpkin, I, 21;
fause knicht (devil) by boy, I, 22, 485 b;
king’s son by Tsano d’Oymé, IV, 440 b.

Noon-sprite, German, I, 484 a;
Slavic, IV, 440 b.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν and Mittagsfrau.

North side of burial grounds for unbaptized children, II, 498.

Northumberland, the betrayal of the Earl of, III, 409, 411-14.

Norton, Christopher, III, 404 f.

The Nortons, their part in the Rising in the North, III, 403-6;
the father and two of the sons go to the Low Countries, 418;
the father and four sons said to accompany the Earl of Westmoreland
to Spain, 419, 421.

Number riddles or songs, I, 416, and n.

Numbers, favorite:--
Seven.
Seven years (service, absence, penance, etc.), I, 41, 69, 72 f.,
77, 189 f., 192, 194-6, 198, 202, 204-6, 211, 224 f., 229-32,
255, 285, 323 f., 342, 344-6, 350, 354, 366, 432, 462, 464 f.,
469 f., 473, 475, 477; II, 52, 138, 159, 162 f., 166, 207-9,
233, 283, 500; III, 23, 189, 371, 441, 504; IV, 287, 290 f.,
363, 366 f., 433, 454-6, 458, 461; V, 207, 212, 219;
seven brothers, I, 92, 94, 100-4, 107, 251, 433, 492; II, 158,
160-2, 165, 170, and n., 189, 201, 358 f., 361 f., 364, 366,
425; IV, 151, 468, 483; V, 224;
seven sisters, I, 69, 71 f., 74, 76, 80, 107 f., 314-16; II, 295,
311 f., 362, 364, 366; IV, 477, 483, 485; V, 207;
seven sons, I, 362 f., 365-7; II, 65-7, 69, 71 f., 74 f., 77 f.,
80, 159, 161; V, 41, 255;
seven (miscellaneous), I, 41, 68, 70, 72, 79, 91, 94, 111, 289,
312, 362, 364, 367, 371; II, 70, 72 f., 75, 77, 79, 82, 318,
365, 370, 467; III, 3, 6-11, 65, 67, 75, 77, 78, 92, 117, 422;
IV, 319, 363 f., 366, 368, 496; V, 108, 127, 158, 184, 214,
224, 240.
Twenty-four.
Four-and-twenty knights, ladies, ships etc., I, 68, 70, 330-2,
341, 343, 370; II, 86, 88, 97, 129, 132, 183, 194 f., 241, 291,
299, 312, 315, 357, 371; III, 216, 297-9, 352, 370, 433, 436;
IV, 84, 157, 221 f., 226-8, 239 f., 273, 284, 317, 323, 325-7,
368, 381 f., 458, 461, 470, 472, 478; V, 41, 111-13, 117-19,
127, 221, 276.
Thirty-three.
Thirty and three horses, years, etc., I, 58 f., 212, 284, 467,
470, 472, 475, 479; II, 90, 92, 93, 95, 399, 471, 497; III,
453, 464 f., 478; IV, 146, 148, 195 f., 199, 204, 207, 371,
373, 470, 498; V, 36, 122-4, 219.

The Nutbrown Maid, English romance, I, 112; II, 84.

Nuts (walnut, hazel-nut, almond), enclosing costumes, I, 260, and n.

Oath by thorn, II, 111, 154;
by oak, ash and thorn, II, 138;
by corn, II, 144, 149;
grass and corn, II, 151.

Occleve, Thomas, De Regimine Principum, V, 71 n.

Oetavian, metrical romance, II, 33 n., 41, 510.

Ode und de Slang, tale, I, 298.

Odin, I, 13, 67, 95, and nn., 283, 404 f.

Ogier le Danois, I, 239, 275, 319, 340; II, 50; V, 243 b, 290 a.

Ogilvie.
See under Family Names.

Oh ono chrio, burden and couplets, II, 430.

L’Oiseau bleu, tale, V, 40.

Ólafr Tryggvason tries masteries with Eindriði, Eindriði to be
baptized, if beaten; shoots a chessman from a boy’s head, III,
18.

Ólafs saga Helga, II, 127.

Olafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.

Olif, Oliva, Karlamagnus saga, accused of adultery, demands ordeal,
champion fights for her, II, 39 f.;
Óluvu kvæði, Färöe ballad on her story, and Spanish prose romance,
II, 40.

Olive, will not grow if planted by unchaste person, V, 289 a.

Oliver, I, 277 f.

Omens:
buttons leap from breast, flee from coat, II, 118, 121 (?), 308
(?), 327 f., 331; IV, 466;
heel, lap, came off shoe, III, 384, 386;
corks frae her heels did flee, III, 393;
horse stumbling, IV, 117, 120, 122; V, 254;
nosebleed, II, 118, 308; IV, 117-20, 122, 189, 466, 522 a;
rain upon setting out on a journey, IV, 122;
rings break from fingers, IV, 120;
burst, II, 324, 337; IV, 119, 122;
drop from fingers, II, 331; IV, 118, 122.

One shape by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291, 295; IV,
454 a, 495 a; V, 39 f., 289 b.

Ordeal by hot iron (carrying iron and walking on steel), II, 36;
walking over hot plough-shares and carrying hot irons, 38;
passing through fire in a waxed shift, or wearing a waxed shift
which is set on fire, 38 f.;
walking through blazing fire in simple shift, 40;
by water, 38, 40;
being thrown into a fire of thorns, 43 n.;
sea, fire and snake-house, II, 510 b;
battle, II, 34-40, 42 f., 45-8; IV, 371-3.

Orendel, II, 127; IV, 450 b, 463 b.

Orfeo and Heurodis, I, 216.

Orlandino of Folengo, I, 407.

Orlando Furioso, I, 265; II, 113.

Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.

Orpheus and Eurydice, romance and ballad of, I, 216 f.

Ortnit und die Wolfdietriche, IV, 463 b.

Örvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n.; IV, 479 b.

L’os qui chante, IV, 447 b; V, 208 b, 286 a.

Otterburn, Battle of, ballad, III, 289 ff.;
Froissart’s account of the battle, 289-92.

Outlaws (for venison), III, 22-30, 56, 73 f., 76-8;
seven score the regular number of a band, III, 53.

Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 84, 99, 437.

Owain, knight, legend of St Patrick’s Purgatory, I, 306, 308.

Ox, slaughtered, comes to life, in attestation of the immortality
of a murdered Christian (Torsten), I, 505 b.

The Paddo, Scottish tale, V, 201.

Pair ride (go) a long distance and never speak, I, 41-4; III, 497
b; V, 207 a, 285 a. (In French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan,
Scandinavian, Slavic ballads, not English.)

Pal greive, false, I, 91 f., 95 n.

Palace of Pleasure, Painter’s, I, 269; V, 13, 29.

Palanus, L’histoire de, Comte de Lyon, from romance, II, 42.

Palmerin of England, I, 267; V, 31 n.

Pantschatantra, I, 270, 339 n., 402 n.; II, 499; V, 14, 107.

Paradise in modern Greek quite equivalent to Hades, I, 322 n.;
paradise or wonderland, maid lured away by promise of being taken
to one, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182
(st. 1), 487 a; II, 496 f.

Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.

Parents, etc., not to know of death of son, daughter, or of the
manner of it, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f.,
387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.

Paria, Goethe’s, II, 502 a.

Parker, Martin, III, 227.

Parodies, II, 204; V, 287 a.

La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV, Collé, V, 75.

Parting, Epirot or Albanian custom of, for a long time after
betrothal or marrying, I, 502 b.

Partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8;
quail plays partridge’s part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II, 509
f.

Parts exchanged in different versions of stories, man for woman,
etc., I, 459; II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 b; IV, 186 a, b, 481
f.; V, 47, 213, 233 f., 296.

Passional, das alte, I, 242 n., 505 a.

Patrañuelo of Timoneda, I, 408.

Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s, I, 257 n.

Pauli’s Schimpf und Ernst, I, 407, 410; III, 53, 208; V, 13.

Pausanias, I, 84; III, 503.

Du Pauvre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.

A Peat carried to school by boy as a contribution to the firing,
I, 21 f.

Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, I, 392 f.

Pedlar and Robin Hood, III, 154; V, 240.

Pedlars and Robin Hood, III, 170.

Peele, George, his Edward I, III, 48 n., 54 n., 218, 257.

Peggie is over the sie with the souldier, a tune, V, 172.

Peitevin, the Jew, III, 237, and n.

Penances, singular, I, 224, =I=, =J=, 225, =K=, =L=, 230, 232; V, 212
a.
See Austerities.

Pepys, Samuel, his pleasure at hearing Barbara Allan, II, 276.

Perceforest, romance, I, 240 n., 268; V, 23 n.

Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n., 269; II, 51, 502
b, 510 b; III, 503 b, 508 a; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b;
Roman de Perceval, prose, I, 257 n.
See Parzival.

Percy.
See under Family Names.