Note 54 — 4 LADY ISABEL AND THE ELF-KNIGHT
Reading edition
'Da lyge, feyns Lybchen, unndt fawle, Meyn jungk Herze muss trawren.'
Nicolai, vv 35, 36,
'Da liege, du Häuptchen, und faule, Kein Reuter wird dir nachtrauern.'
Simrock, vv 35, 36,
are evidently derived from the apostrophe to the murderer's head in I, W, Y.
Stolz Syburg is the hero of a very different ballad, from the Münster region, Reifferscheid, No 16, p. 32 (also No 17, and Simrock, No 9, p. 23, 'Stolz Heinrich'). And from this the name, in consequence of a remote resemblance in the story, may have been taken up by the Rhine ballad, though it has contributed nothing more. Margaret, a king's daughter, is wiled away by a splendid description of Stolz Syburg's opulence. When they have gone a long way, he tells her that he has nothing but a barren heath. She stabs herself at his feet.