Note 47 — 4 LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT
Reading edition
K, or the editor, seeks to avoid the difficulty by taking the last line from the knight, and reading, "Mit Blut war er umronnen," an emendation not according with the simplicity of ballads. Another Swabian copy, Meier, p. 301, note, strophe 6, has:
'Wir müssen zu selbigem Bronnen Wo Wasser und Blut heraus ronnen.'