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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

Note 72 — 4 LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT (continued 2)

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Very little remains of the artifice in Polish A. The idea seems to be that the girl pretends to be curious about the sword in order to get it into her hands. But the whole story is told in ten stanzas.

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