Note 51 — 4 LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT
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A variety of W, cited in Schlesische Volkslieder, p. 26, has,
'Ach Ulbrich, Ulbrich, Halsemann, Halsemann, Lass du mich nur drei Gale schrei'n!'
Grundtvig, assuming that the name is Ulbrich Halsemann, would account for the second and superfluous character here [found also in W] by a divarication of Ulrich Halsemann into Ulrich and Halsemann (Hanslein). Ansar, "bisher unverständlicher Vorname des Ritters Uleraich" in Y (Meinert), would equally well yield Hanslein. Might not Halsemann possibly be an equivalent of Halsherr?