Note 848 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 3)

Manley, Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperian Drama, I. 296 ff., from the Folk-Lore Journal, VII. 338 ff. The date of the play is 1779. For the Germanic sword-dance, see Müllenhoff, Festgabe für G. Homeyer, “Ueber den Schwerttanz,” p. 117. A bibliography of this subject is printed in the Zeitschr. f. Völkerpsychol., etc., XIX. 204, 416; especially see p. 223; and other references may be added from Paul’s Grundriss, II. i. 835, for the German. For the sword-dance in Shetland noted by Scott, see Lockhart’s Life, ed. 1837, III. 162. For other gymnastic plays, see the two books of Groos, Spiele der Thiere and Spiele der Menschen.