Volume 5 / Part 3 — INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE (continued 2)
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Images in church turn their backs when abandoned woman enters, I, 231;
so when merman comes in, I, 365 a;
everything bows when merman’s (human) wife enters, I, 365 b.
Importance of asking brother’s consent to marry, I, 497 f.
Incestuous connection, I, 185 f., 444-54; III, 500 f.; IV, 450; V, 210.
Ingenuity a transcendental virtue of Mahāyāna Buddhism, I, 11 n.
Innocent blood turns, every drop, to a burning candle, I, 172; II, 39 b.
Interest on loan not obligatory, but the security forfeitable in case of non-payment, III, 52, 60 (85-7), 62 (121);
no interest paid by the knight to the abbot for the loan of £400 for a twelvemonth, III, 62;
present to Robin Hood of 20 mark for the same loan and time (besides 100 bows and 100 sheaf of long and handsome arrows), III, 62, 69.
Iouenn Kerménou, Breton story, III, 501.
Ipomydon, romance, II, 510 b; V, 47.
Iron band forged round a man’s waist as penance, I, 172;
man goes on pilgrimage, weighted with iron on hands and loins, II, 128.
It was far in the night, and the bairnies grat, V, 203.
Italian (Talliant, Tailliant), a champion, leaps over his adversary’s head and is spitted, II, 378, 383, 385, 387 f.
Ivan Carevič i Marfa Carevena, Prince John and Princess Martha, Russian tale, V, 281.
Ivanhoe, Scott’s, III, 43; V, 72 n.
Jacinth, refuses to be worn by adulterer, V, 289 a.
Jacques de Vitry, III, 54, 258 n.
James, Protevangelium of, I, 271.
James IV of Scotland threatens his queen with death for advising him not to make war with England, III, 351 f.
Jane (Seymour), Queen of Henry VIII, her death in child-bed, ballad, III, 372 ff.
Jātakas, V, 292 a.
Jehan de Paris, Le Romant de, I, 191 n.
Jehan et Blonde, Old French romance, I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.
Jews charged with crucifying Christian boys in contempt of Jesus, III, 235-9, 241;
with murdering a boy for singing the praises of the Virgin, 239 f.;
with murders to obtain blood for use in Paschal rites, 240-243; IV, 497 a;
reason not specified, III, 243-54; IV, 497 f.; V, 241;
such murders the reason for the expulsion of Jews from France and Spain, V, 241.
Jhonne Ermistrangis dance, III, 362 f.
Jock of Hazeldean, Scott’s, V, 160.
John II, the Good, of France, III, 283, 287; V, 132.
John of Atherly, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.
John o the Scales, V, 14 f.
John (Jock) o the Side, notorious thief, harbors the Countess of Northumberland, III, 409, 419, 475;
taken in a raid and imprisoned at Newcastle, gallantly rescued by Hobby Noble, 477-9;
by the Laird’s Jock, with Noble as a comrade, 479-83.
John the Reeve, rhymed tale, V, 69, and n., 71 n., 72 n., 73.
John (Joan) Thomson’s man, a history; Scottish proverb, V, 8.
Johnstone, Willy, of Wamphray, the Galliard, III, 458-60.
Johnstones, III, 296;
affray with the Crichtons, III, 458-60;
with the Maxwells, III, 485;
feuds with the Maxwells, IV, 34-8;
Sir James Johnstone killed by Lord Maxwell, 35, 51.
Joie des Bestes à la nouvelle de la naissance du Sauveur, I, 240 f., 505 f.; II, 501 b; IV, 451 f.; V, 288 a.
Jonah, story of, perhaps the source of tales of ships arrested in their progress by having guilty persons on board, I, 245; II, 14 n.
Jonson, Ben, Bartholomew Fair, IV, 302;
Discoveries, V, 285;
Masque of the Metamorphosed Gipsies, III, 45;
his admiration of ‘Chevy Chase,’ III, 305.
Josefs Gedicht von den sieben Todsünden, II, 507 a.
Joseph, testy or suspicious towards Mary, II, 1-4, 6.
Joseph and Mary subjected to an ordeal of chastity, I, 271.
Joseph and the Angel, carol, II, 1.
Josephus, I, 404.
Joufrois, Old French romance, III, 508 a.
Jourdains de Blaivies, romance, IV, 502 b.
The Jovial Crew, ballad-opera, II, 127 n.; III, 133 n.
Joy of the beasts at the news of the birth of Christ, I, 240 f., 505 f.; II, 501; IV, 452 a; V, 288 a.
Judas and the legend of the roasted cock, I, 240, 505 b;
Judas took tithes of all money that came into his hands, I, 242;
legend of the thirty pieces, in Wendish ballad, 242 f.;
in English ballad, 243 f.
Judicial combats, II, 34-40, 42 f., 46, 48; III, 508 a; IV, 371-3;
oath in, II, 35 n.; IV, 463 b;
qualified perjury in, II, 35.
Judith, the Old German, I, 51 n.
Judith and Holofernes, the relation of the story to Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight, I, 51.
Judith, wife of Louis le Débonnaire, accused of adultery, II, 43 n.
Der Jungherr und der treue Heinrich, rhymed tale, V, 39.
The Justice dealing with outlaws, III, 23-6.
Kalevala, I, 445 f.; II, 506 b, 507 b, 511 b; III, 367.
Kâlidâsa, II, 235.
Kämpa Dater, Nordiska, Björner’s, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.
Kanjur, Vinaya (Buddhist), I, 11 n., 12 n.
Karl der Grosse (Enenkels Weltbuch), I, 199 n.
Karl Meinet, II, 43 n.
Karlamagnus Saga, I, 275, and n.; II, 39 f.
Karodes, the mantle of, I, 261.
Kathá-sarit-ságara, I, 200 n., 268; II, 495, 502 a; IV, 454 a, 463 a,
Kay, Arthur’s steward, I, 245 f., 272;
Kay’s wife, I, 272.
Kay, Kempy, ballad, I, 300 ff., etc.
Ker, Captain.
See Car.
Keraint.
See Bardd.
Ketilbjörn, IV, 502 a.
Kidnapping women for compulsory marriage, IV, 232-54, 309 f., 424 (?); V, 261-4.
Kilhwch and Olwen, Welsh tale, I, 210, 279 n., 281 n.
King and subjects, meetings of, V, 69, 75, n.; 69-86;
king harbored by reeve, collier, shepherd, etc., 69-74, 84-86, 303 b;
his hosts have made free with his deer, 70-72, 85 f.;
munificence of the king, V, 70 f., 73-5, 77, 80, 83, 86.
King found before his gate, II, 52, 4.
King (queen) lets in maid (or other) that knocks, II, 387, 393, 459, 461 f., 471, 474 f.;
Lady, Lord Bangwill, Lord Barnard, Earl Percy, or some principal person, does this, II, 150, 184, 186 f., 187, 190, 253, 266 f., 284, 286, 383; IV, 467.
King visits Robin Hood in the disguise of an abbot, III, 74;
serves Robin Hood with a buffet upon Robin Hood’s missing the mark, is recognized, and pardons the outlaws on condition of their entering his service, 76.
King who regards himself as the richest, most magnificent, etc., in the world is told that there is one who outstrips him, and undertakes to see for himself whether this is so, threatening death to the person who has affirmed his inferiority in case this is disproved, I, 275, 279 n., 281, 282 f., 283, and n.; III, 17 n., 503 b. Cf. Robin Hood, III, 124.
King, young, nice about choice of wife (or his guardians), and the princess proposed to him won with difficulty, II, 51-5; IV, 463 b.
The King and the Barker, rhymed tale, V, 68, 69 n., 78.
The King and the Cobbler, a prose history, V, 74, and n.
The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Dodsley’s drama, V, 75.
King Alisaunder, romance, V, 297. See Alexander.
King Edward and the Hermit, rhymed tale, V, 72, and n.
King Edward Third and the Shepherd, rhymed tale, V, 71, 72 n.
King Edward the IIIJth and a Tanner of Tamworthe, A merye, pleasant, and delectable history betwene, V, 68, 81.
King Heiðrekr and Gestr, their riddle-contest, I, 405, and n.
King Henry II and the Abbot, story in Giraldus Cambrensis, V, 72.
King Henry II and the Miller of Mansfield, V, 69, and n.
King Henry the Eighth and the Abbot of Reading, The pleasant History of, I, 404.
King Horn, gest, I, 188-91, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401; V, 287.
King John and the Bishop, similar tales, I, 405-10; II, 506 f.; IV, 459 b; V, 216 a.
King Orfeo, romance and ballad, I, 215 ff.; II, 500; III, 502; IV, 451; V, 211.
King Rabssaldschal and his minister’s daughter-in-law, Tibetan tale, I, 12 f.
King Ramiro, Southey’s ballad, V, 4 n.
Kinge and Miller, V, 69 n., 84.
King’s armor, knight’s wearing it in battle, III, 283 a; V, 297 b.
King’s receivers plundered by Robin Hood, III, 229.
See Robin Hood and Queen Katherine.
The King’s Son, Kraljev sin, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.
Kings and Queens of England:—
Charles I, IV, 56, 58-60?
Edward I, III, 43, 257; V, 69.
Edward II, III, 43, 55.
Edward III, III, 282, 284, 286 f.; V, 71, and n.
Edward IV, V, 68, 77, 83.
Edward VI, III, 378.
Edward, III, 73, 75, 78; V, 72.
Henry II, III, 257-64; IV, 498 f.; V, 69, 72 f., 84, 242.
Henry III, III, 236-9.
Henry IV, III, 21, 310, 313 (see 304); V, 67, 75.
Henry V, III, 21, 321-6.
Henry VII, III, 328, 331-3, 356.
Henry VIII, I, 404; III, 198-207, 335 f., 338 f., 342 f., 345, 348, 350-52, 354-6, 358-60, 373-7, 401; IV, 503, 506 f.; V, 74, 245 f.
Henry, IV, 17-22.
James I of England and VI of Scotland, III, 442-6, 448-50, 452-6.
James II of England and VII of Scotland, IV, 111-15.
John, I, 410-14.
Richard I, III, 220, 223, 227, 229-32, 508 b.
Richard III, III, 331-3, 356.
William III, V, 74.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of Henry II, III, 257-64; IV, 498; V, 241.
Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Edward I, III, 257.
Elizabeth, III, 406.
Jane Seymour, III, 372-6; V, 245 f.
Katherine, III, 198-204, 206 f.
Kings and Queens of Scotland:
Alexander III, II, 19.
David Bruce, III, 284-7.
James I, III, 309, 313 (see 304); V, 73 n.
James III, II, 19.
James IV, III, 351 f., 355, 359; V, 187 f.
James V, I, 404; III, 364-71, 411; V, 73 n., 74, 109.
(See James I, II, of England).
Margaret (James IV), III, 351 f.
Mary Stuart, III, 378, 381 f., 384-404, 424, 426, 442, 444, 446; IV, 508-13; V, 246 f.
(Stuarts:—
Charles I, IV, 55 f.
James Francis Edward, IV, 116, 118-23; V, 255.
Prince Charlie, IV, 55-57, 60; V, 252.
Captain Stuart, IV, 109.
Lord Thomas Stuart, IV, 425).
Kinmont, Will Armstrong of, III, 469 ff.
Kiósut, Bulgarian tale, V, 281.
Kiss of courtesy, II, 435;
three kisses, to disenchant, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b, 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290.
Kissing of fairies, etc., puts one in their power, I, 322, and n., 325.
Kit o Thirske, a pedlar, beats Robin Hood in fight, III, 172.
Kitchie boy in ballads, II, 102, 114; IV, 403-5 (405, footboy), 407; V, 34-8, 277 f.
Klephts, III, 49;
Giphtakis, III, 54;
Dimos, III, 104.
Die kluge Bauerntochter, kluge Dirne, kluge Hirtentochter, tales of The Clever Wench, I, 8-12.
Knife which will serve four-and-twenty men at meat all at once, I, 266;
knife lost, figuring a lover, III, 501 a;
sheath and knife for mother and child, I, 183 f., 186; V, 210.
Knight who has forced a woman, to marry her if bachelor, be hanged if married, II, 460 f., 464, (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.
The Knight of Curtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, romance, V, 33.
Knight of the Swan, Elias, III, 515 b.
Knighthood, distraint of, III, 51, 58.
Knots loosed in Scotland at marriage ceremony and at the approach of parturition, so among Laps and Norwegians, I, 85.
Koadalan, Breton tale, I, 401, 402.
Kongen og Bonden, Danish tale, V, 74.
König Artus mit der Ehbrecher-brugk, Historia of Hans Sachs, I, 267.
König Rother, I, 197; IV, 463 b; V, 2.
Der Königssohn und der Bartlose, Greek tale, V, 281.
Korolevič i ego Djad’ka, The prince and his Guardian, Russian tale, V, 281.
Korrigan, Breton fairy, refused by man whom she asked to marry her, gives him the choice of dying in three days or languishing seven (three) years, I, 379.
Kraljev sin, The King’s Son, Bosnian tale, V, 45 f.
Kranzsingen, riddles, I, 2 n.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Kron, das vasnachtspil mit der, I, 266.
Die Krone der Königin von Afion, meistergesang, I, 267.
Kudrun, II, 137 b.
See Gudrun.
Kullervo, story of, in Kalevala, I, 445.
Kung Lindorm, Swedish tale, I, 290 n.
Die Kunigin von Frankreich, dy der Marschalk gegen dem Kunig versagen wart, u. s. w., meisterleid, II, 40.
Diu Kunigin von Frankrich und der ungetriuwe Marschalk, German metrical tale, II, 40.
Den kydske Dronning, poem of Jeppe Jensen, II, 42.
Kyng Alisaunder, romance, II, 511 b; III, 306; V, 297.
Kyng of Tars, romance, II, 511 b.
Kyng Orfew, romance, I, 216.
Kynge Henry the IIIJth and the Tanner of Tamowthe, The story of, V, 67.
Kytice z básní, Polish tale, V, 60 b.
La Fontaine, I, 265; III, 258; V, 13.
The Lad with the Skin Coverings, Gaelic tale, V, 216 a.
Lady goes in search of lover; warned by Billy Blin or fairy that that very day or the morrow is to be his wedding day, I, 456;
lady leaps the castle-wall and is caught by her lover, II, 407, 409 f., 413;
lady solicited by knight discovered to be his sister, II, 481.
Lady Bessy, a ballad-history of Henry VII’s compassing the crown of England, III, 331, 354 n., 378.
Lai de Doon, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.
Lai de Guigemar, IV, 377.
Lai d’Ignaurès, V, 34.
Lai de Lanval, I, 339; II, 510 b.
Lai d’Orphée. See Lay of Orfeo.
Lai de Tydorel, II, 505.
Lai d’Yonec, V, 39.
Lai de l’Espine, II, 500 a, 511 a.
Lai del Fraisne, II, 67 f.;
old English version, Lay le Freine, I, 216; II, 67 n.
Lai du Corn, I, 262 f.; II, 43 n., 511 b.
The Laird’s Jock (probable nephew of Johnie Armstrong) III, 462 f.;
rescues Jock o the Side, 479-83.
Lancelot, the Dutch, I, 260.
Lancelot, the French prose, I, 257 n., 267.
Lancelot, Sir, I, 295.
Lancilotto del Lago, I, 267.
Landres rímur, II, 40.
Lanet, I, 261, 266 f.
Lanethen Mantel, meistergesang, I, 261, 267.
Lanzelet, of Ulrich von Zatzikhoven, I, 260, 308, 338.
Lass o Livingston, a song, IV, 232 n.
Last word, importance of getting, when contending with mischievous personages and in wit-contests generally, I, 11, 20-2, 485; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Launfal, I, 320 n., 339; II, 510 b.
Lay of Orfeo, I, 216; II, 500 a.
Lay of the Reedwater Minstrel, Roxby’s, IV, 25.
Layamon, I, 67 n.
Lazarus.
See Dives and Lazarus, No 56 (II, 10 ff., etc.).
Leaf sent down a stream by a maid to warn mother, sister, that she is in danger, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Learning unco lair (lear), II, 118 f., 174, 178; III, 385; IV, 411; 467.
Leather, corpses enclosed in, III, 352 f.; IV, 507 a; V, 298 a.
Left shoulder.
See Shoulder.
Legenda Aurea, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505 a; II, 235, 507 a; III, 51, 294 n.
Legitimacy of children, test of, by swinging or dipping them in the Rhine, I, 271 n.
“Lenore,” ballads and tales, I, 487 n.; V, 59-67, 303 b.
Leper, black beggar, young lad, thrall, scullion, dwarf, put into noble lady’s bed, or introduced into her chamber, to incriminate her, II, 39-42, 44, 47.
Leprosy, blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, 285.
Die Lerche, Kirghish lay, II, 506 b.
Leys, Baron of, ballad, IV, 355 ff.
Libeaus Desconeus, romance, I, 308; V, 290 a;
its relations to the ballad of the Earl of Westmoreland (No 177), V, 299 b.
Liddesdale, Knight of, ballad, III, 288.
The lie freely given in ballads, III, 367; V, 298 a.
Light kindles where innocent blood falls, I, 172; II, 39 b; V, 287 a.
Lilies spring from innocent man’s grave, I, 143.
Lilliard at Ancrum Muir, III, 306.
Lin, Linn, etc., stock ballad-locality.
See Lin, in the Glossary, V, 354.
Lincoln, Linkum, stock ballad-locality.
See Linkum, in the Glossary, V, 543.
Lindsay.
See under Family Names.
Lind-worm offers gifts to persuade a young woman to become his love, I, 314.
Lion killed by Sir Cawline without a weapon, by thrusting mantle in lion’s mouth and holding him to the wall, II, 60;
tearing out of lion’s heart by Richard Cœur de Lion, III, 508 b;
London Prentice, the hearts of two lions, III, 508 b;
Cuculin pulls liver and lights out of the throats of two lions, IV, 463 b.
Lions in Scotland, II, 407, 409; III, 517 b.
Little Billee, Thackeray, I, 457 n.; IV, 370 n.
The Little Boy with the Secret and his Little Sword, Magyar tale, I, 11 n.
Little John:
is Robin Hood’s principal comrade, III, 41, 56 ff.;
brings in the knight to Robin Hood’s lodge, 57;
is lent to the knight as servant, 60;
lent to the sheriff, whom he plunders and decoys into the hands of Robin Hood, 63-66;
brings in the monk, 67 f.;
takes part in the sheriff’s shooting-match, is wounded in the subsequent fight and carried off by Much, 70 f.;
roughly treated by Robin Hood, leaves him, and is made prisoner by the sheriff, 92;
rescued by Robin Hood, 94;
quarreled with and struck by Robin Hood, leaves his service, 97;
is the only man that has his wits and courage when Robin Hood is taken prisoner, 98;
kills the monk who has informed against Robin Hood, and rescues his master, behaving with singular nobleness, 99 f.
See, also, 124 f., 127.
Later ballads:
beats Robin Hood in a fight and is taken into his troop, III, 135;
other fights of his, 137 (see, also, 228);
Little John disguised as a beggar attempts to join himself to four beggars, is ill received by them, beats them and takes £603 from them, III, 190;
Little John finds his match or superior, III, 109, 130, 155, 166 f., 169, 171.
Little John appears in the May-game, not apparently in the morris-dance, III, 44-6.
Livingston. See under Family Names.
Loan miraculously restored, III, 52 n.; V, 297 a.
Localizing of ballad-stories, I, 24, 99, 173, 210, 340; II, 264, 321; V, 287 a.
Locksly, Nottinghamshire, the birthplace of Robin Hood, III, 215.
Logan Water, or, A Lover in Captivity, a song, IV, 184 n.
Logie, Laird of, III, 449 ff., 520; IV, 515 f.; V, 299 f.
Long Lonkin, tale, V, 295 b.
Lord Derwentwater’s Goodnight, ballad by Robert Surtees, IV, 116.
Lord Livingston, Pinkerton’s ballad, IV, 432.
Loudon Hill, ballad, IV, 105 ff.
Loudoun Castle, III, 435-8.
Lousing of knight by maid, I, 27, 28, 32, 37, 46, 487, and n., 488; IV, 440 b; V, 285 a.
Lovely, Leeve, London, III, 306.
Lover runs mad after the death of his mistress, II, 110, 124;
throws himself into bonfire after his mistress has been burned, II, 115, 121;
woman goes mad after lover and husband have killed one another, II, 130 f., 133;
after the death of lover, 169.
Lover’s tryst with a lady anticipated by a low fellow, I, 137-41.
Lovmand, Lagman, representative of Horn in Danish and Swedish ballads, I, 193 f.
The Lowlands of Holland, a song, II, 156, 317, and n.; V, 229 b.
Loxly, assumed, or secondary, name of Robin Hood, III, 197 f., 201, 209.
L.P., signature of No 147, III, 208, 210; III, 518 a, 519 a; indicating Laurence Price.
Lucian, De Luctu, II, 236.
Ludie, daughter of the emir of Orbrie, V, 6.
Ludus Sancti Jacobi, Provençal mystery, I, 238.
Lunet, Laneth, I, 261.
Der Luneten Mantel, fastnachtspiel, I, 261, 267.
Lyne, brig o, II, 290.
Lynn, stock ballad-locality.
See Lin in the Glossary, V, 354.
Mabinogion, I, 210, 266 n., 279 n., 281 n.; II, 51; V, 24 n., 216 a.
Mable, Book of, a prophetical book, III, 420, 422.
Macaire, romance, II, 40.
Macdonald.
See under Family Names.
Macgill of Lindores fights an Italian gladiator, II, 378.
Macgregor.
See under Family Names.
Madel, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 67.
Madonna substituted for Lazarus in the legend of Dives and Lazarus, II, 10;
Madonna and Jesus, III, 507 b.
Magdalen, legend of, I, 228 f.;
in southern ballads, I, 231 f., 504 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a;
singular episode from, in Golden Legend and in Digby Mystery of Mary Magdalene, I, 245 n.;
legend of Magdalen blended with story of the Samaritan woman and with that of the Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a.
Mágus saga, I, 283 n.
Mahābhārata, II, 495; V, 294.
Maid cuts off her pap to release a man from a serpent and heal the wound made in his body, the pap grows apace when she bears a son, V, 177;
maid leaps from castle wall into lover’s arms, II, 410, 413;
maid solicited by a man tricks him, and when safe jeers at him, II, 480-93;
maid (noble), to vex knight who has been adjudged to marry her, pretends to be a carl’s daughter, beggar’s daughter, II, 462-4, 467, 469 f., 471 f., 473 f., 476; IV, 494; V, 238 f.;
maid who has eloped with a pretended lover forced by him to strip, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496 b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442;
maid will not give her faith to two brothers successively, I, 89, 91, 376, 378 n.
Maid Marian, in ballads, III, 43, 46;
simply mentioned, 198, 209;
disguised, fights with Robin Hood disguised, 219;
in May-game and morris, 44-6;
in the plays of The Downfall and the Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, 46, 519.
Mallet, David, and his Margaret’s Ghost, II, 199 f.; V, 294 a.
Malleus Maleficarum, I, 489; III, 18.
Malory’s King Arthur (Morte Darthur), I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, 289 b; 298 a.
Man in danger of his life dressed by landlady as woman and set to baking, IV, 151-4;
man preparing to hang himself finds money, leaves the rope, with which the owner of the money hangs himself, V, 13;
man who flies from home on account of enormous crime, in his desperation commits his relations to miserable fates, I, 169 f., 445;
man who has assaulted maid, to marry her, if bachelor, be hanged, if married, II, 460 f., 464 (466), 469, 471, 474 f.; IV, 493.
Mandeville, Sir John, his (fictitious) Voyage and Travel, I, 308; III, 501; V, 209.
Les Manteaux, Caylus, I, 257.
Der Mantel of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 259 f.
Le Mantel Mautaillié, fabliau, I, 257.
Mantle and costumes enclosed between two nut-shells, I, 260, and n., 271.
Mantle, as chastity chest.
See The Boy and the Mantle, No 29, I, 257 ff., etc.;
Gaelic ballad of the mantle, I, 261 f.; V, 289 a;
the mantle of Karodes, I, 261.
Mantle Rhymes, see Skikkju Rímur, I, 264 n.
Már fights when both his hands are off, IV, 502 a.
Margaret Twynstoun, Twinslace, Vinstar, Weiksterne, frees her lover, Wemyss of Logie, condemned to death, by taking him through the royal bedchamber and letting him down from a window, III, 449 f., 452-5.
Margaret’s Ghost, David Mallet, II, 199 f.; V, 294 a.
Le Mari Confesseur, conte of La Fontaine, III, 258.
Marie de France,
Lai del Freisne, II, 67 f.;
Lanval, II, 510;
Guigemar, IV, 377;
Yonec, V, 39.
Marineo, Lucio, I, 238.
Maríu saga, I, 98; III, 52 n., 240.
Markenfield (Martinfield), Thomas, III, 418-22;
knows every banner, whether any man he has laid eyes on is friend or foe, can speak any language, and has the gift of prophecy, 419 f.
Marko Kraljević, II, 357; III, 499 a, 507 b; IV, 463 b.
Marr, house of, IV, 157.
Marramiles, one of Arthur’s knights, I, 279, 284, 287.
Marriage ceremony interrupted by lover, who takes the bride, IV, 412-14.
Marriage, forced, justified as happiest, IV, 244.
Marriage:
maid to wait, lover absent, seven (eight, nine) years and not marry, I, 189 f., 192-4, 459, 502 b;
maid and man parting, neither to marry for seven years, I, 191 n., 464 f., 473, 477, 480; II, 508; IV, 461;
man gives his troth to woman to marry no other for seven years, I, 469 f.;
man parting with his wife engages her not to marry again for seven years, I, 195 f., 198, 200 n., 462 (three cases);
for three, five, six, eight, nine or twelve years, nine years and nine days, year month and day, I, 194, 197, 199, 200 (and 499), 461;
Epirot and Albanian custom of betrothing or marrying early in youth and parting for long periods, I, 502.
Marriage, second, of wife prevented by sudden (often miraculous) return of husband, I, 194-200, 502 f.; II, 499 b; III, 501; IV, 450 b; V, 210 b;
betrothed maid arrests marriage of lover to another woman, I, 502 f.
Marriage-contract, seigneur miraculously conveyed home on the eve of his wife’s marrying identifies himself by producing one half of his marriage-contract, which fits the other half left with his wife, II, 499 b.
Marriages, unequal:
serving man preferred by Lord Arundel’s daughter to Lord Phenix, II, 441-55;
lady refuses nine gentlemen for servant-lad, ploughman, IV, 172 f., 522; V, 255;
Earl of Wigton’s daughter marries footman, IV, 292-9; V, 270;
lady of birth and fame loves a kitchenboy, IV, 403-8; V, 277 f.
Martial, Epigrams, IV, 186.
Mary, Mild, II, 309, 315;
Mary Mild, Myle, Moil, II, 72; III, 386, 395 f., 398 a; IV, 507 f., 510 f.;
Mary Miles (corruptly), IV, 511;
maidens mild, II, 312, 314, 316; V, 227.
Masenžny Dzjadok, White Russian tale, V, 281.
Mass, forced, exacted by Robin Hood, III, 192, 199, 202, 228.
Massinger, The Picture, I, 269.
Matthew, apocryphal Gospel of, I, 271; III, 1, 2 n., 7.
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora, II, 37, 143; III, 235, 241, 519.
Matilda Fitzwalter, Maid Marian, III, 56 n., 214, 218, 519.
Matildas, three, popularly supposed to have been persecuted by King John, III, 519.
Maximilian II (Emperor) and a charcoal-burner, Bohemian tale, V, 75.
Maxwells:
affray with the Johnstones, III, 485;
feuds with the Johnstones, IV, 34-8;
Lord Maxwell kills Sir James Johnstone, IV, 35;
Lord Maxwell’s Last Goodnight, ballad, IV, 34 ff.
See under Family Names.
May-game, III, 44-46.
Meilyr, story of, in Giraldus Cambrensis, his ability to expose lies, I, 320 n.
Meisterlieder der Kolmarer Handschrift, I, 269, 270.
Meldrum, Squire, III, 306 n.
Mellerstain, Laird of, ballad, IV, 281 f.
Mélusine, romance, V, 226 a.
Mem and Zin, Kurdish poem, I, 98.
Memering, Mimmering, Mimmer, Mimecan, smallest of men, champion of Gunild, II, 34-8.
La menta y’l Gaitx, Catalan tale, n, 510.
Merfolk apt to be ferocious, I, 366 n. (see 365 b, 366 a).
Merlin, Roman de Merlin, I, 257 n.; II, 113; IV, 454 a (English prose romance);
(in Arthour and Merlin), IV, 479 b.
Mermaid, sight of, bad omen for ships, II, 19, 29 f., 32, 510 b; V, 149-52;
one has betrayed seven ships, II, 19.
Mermaiden affects man with some mortal ailment, I, 387-9 (probably incited thereto by his inconstancy: see I, 372).
Merman entering church, all the images turn their backs; when woman who has perforce been the merman’s consort enters church, everything in it bows, I, 365.
Merman takes maid (princess) to the sea-bottom, where she lives some eight years and has children; hearing the bells of home, she longs to go to her mother and is allowed to pay her a visit, taking her children with her; merman comes for her, she refuses to return; merman says they must divide the children, three and three each, and half of the seventh, I, 364 f.;
merman tears the children to pieces and hangs himself, 366.
See Dwarf-king.
Merman’s human wife, allowed to visit her mother, must not bow when the priest pronounces the holy name, or make an offering, I, 364;
must not stay for the benediction, 366.
Message (deceptive) from dying man or woman to father, mother, etc., or prohibition of information to these of fact or manner of death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460 a, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.
Message repeated, II, 265 f., 268 f., 270, 272, 366;
message sent down a stream by a leaf, or linden shavings, I, 40 b, 487 a.
Messer Guiglielmo Rossiglione and Messer Guiglielmo Guardastagno, Boccaccio’s tale of, V, 33.
Messer Torello, Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197.
Messire Gauvain, ou la Vengeance de Raguidel, romance, I, 257 n., 260; II, 51.
Mestermø, Norse tale, Asbjørnsen, I, 461 n.
Metyard, archer’s, III, 103 n.; V, 297 a.
Midge, the Miller’s son, III, 202, 204.
See 197, and Much.
Mikkels Arvegods, I, 144 b.
Mild Mary.
See Mary.
Milk running from reputed maid’s breasts, I, 102 f., 179, 363.
Milk, wash my son in, I, 71, (and lay him in silk) 74, 79 f., (and dress in silk) 221; II, 89, 91, 100, 408, 425, (and row in silk) 426.
Les Mille et un Jours, I, 282, 283 n., 417; II, 43 n., 499; V, 13.
Les Mille et un Quart d’heure, Contes Tartares, V, 13.
Miller, monk, without cares, sans souci, ohne Sorgen, utan all sorg, senza pinseri, pensà, sem cuidados, I, 408 f.; II, 507.
Miller and King, V, 69 n.
The Miller of Mansfield, in Sherwood, and Henry the Second, King of England, The Pleasant History of, V, 69 n., 84.
The Miller of Mansfield in Sherwood and K. Henry the Second, etc., a pleasant new ballad of, V, 69 n.
Millers, priests, shepherds, etc., nothing else left in England, at epoch of Durham and of Flodden Field, III, 282, and n., 284-6, 352.
Mills which grind sugar and cinnamon, mace and cloves, I, 113;
cinnamon, II, 65.
Milon, steward, false accuser of Olif, wife of King Hugo, II, 39 f.
Mimecan, dwarf, champion of Gunhild, II, 37 f.
Mint cursed for not concealing Joseph and Mary, II, 8 n.
Miracle de la Marquise de Gaudine, II, 42.
Miracles. See Light, Fountain, Lilies.
Miracles following the murder of a Christian boy by the Jews, III, 235, 237-40, 244 f., 247 f., 252; V, 241;
the desecration of the Host, III, 240, 242 n.
Miracles of the Virgin, II, 7 n., 8, 13, 16, 42; III, 52, 239 f.; V, 23 n.
Un Miracolo di tre Pellegrini, play, I, 238.
Miragaia, romance of Almeida-Garrett, V, 6.
Mittagsfrau, I, 484 a.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, Noon-sprite.
Mitton, bailiff of Shrewsbury, knows no king but him that wears the crown, III, 332 f.
Modi of Reynes, accepted suitor of Rymenhild, I, 189.
Modun, Moging, to marry Rimild, Riminild, Horn’s love, I, 191 f.
Money given by maid to lover with whom she is eloping, I, 183; II, 369, 371, 406 f., 410.
Monk, miller, without cares, I, 408 f.; II, 507.
Monmouth, Duke of, IV, 108-10.
Montrose, IV, 51-3, 55 n., 57, 77-9.
Moon, new, with old moon in her arm, sign of storm, II, 20-27, 29, 30.
Moradbak, l’histoire de, I, 11 n.
Moran (Murando), Piedmontese representative of young Beichan, I, 462.
Mordred, Arthur’s nephew, his death, V, 298 a.
Moringer, Der edle, I, 196, 459; V, 291 b.
Morris dance, III, 44 f.
Morte Arthur, II, 510 b.
Morte Darthur, Malory, I, 257 n.; IV, 456 a; V, 298 b, 298 a.
Morton, Earl of, III, 443, 445 f.
Möttuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Mourning, excessive.
See Tears.
Le Moyen de parvenir, III, 159.
Much (the Miller’s son), an original comrade of Robin Hood, III, 56, 59 f., 66, 70;
carries off the wounded Little John on his back, 71; 97, 99;
companion with Little John in killing the monk and the rescue of Robin Hood, 98-100;
Midge, the Miller’s son, III, 197, 202, 204;
Much the Miller’s son, made one of the party that rescue John o the Side, III, 478 f., 483.
La Mule sanz frain, fabliau, I, 417 n.
Der Müller ohne Sorgen, I, 409. See Miller.
Mummers’ play of St. George, V, 291.
Munday, A., his play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 46, 129, 179, 519 b; V, 100;
his pageant Metropolis Coronata, V, 297 a.
Munday, A., and Chettle, H., play of The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 129, 519 b.
Murder, compensation in money for, II, 297 f.;
disclosed by harp or fiddle made or furnished from parts of the body, or by pipe made from bone, or from plant growing from the body, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9; V, 208 b, 286 a.
Murder, revenge for, II, 297 f., 300 f., 304-7.
Murdered boy appears immediately as bird and reveals that his brother had killed him, I, 126.
Murdered man’s body will emit blood upon being touched or approached by the murderer, II, 143.
Murray.
See under Family Names.
Murray, Bonny Earl of, murder of at Donibristle, III, 447-9, 456.
Murray, The Outlaw, ballad, V, 185 ff.
Murray, Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447.
Murray, Morrow==Moor, black, V, 189 n.
Music, harp, pipe, flute, song, powerful effects of, on animate and inanimate nature, II, 137;
soporific influence, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21; V, 220 b, 293 a;
music, seductive, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17; 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 367, 485; IV, 441; V, 285.
Mužíčenko s Kulačenko, The little Peasant, Russian tale, V, 281.
Mythical interpretations of the story of Adam Bell, etc., and of Robin Hood, III, 21, and n.; 47 f., and notes.
Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, I, 265 n.; III, 498 a.
Mærþöll, Icelandic fairy tale, I, 392.
Naisi (Naois) and Deirdre, Gaelic story, III, 498 b.
Naked man, injured husband will not kill a, II, 245, 247-9, 251, 253-6, 258; IV, 477 f.
Naming, enfeebling or destructive effects of, on men engaged in fight, on the devil, trolls, nixes, the horse Blak, a berserkr, the avenging sword, enchantment, etc., I, 3, 5, 89-92, 95 f., 489 b; III, 498 a; IV, 443 a; V, 207 b, 285 b.
Nashe, Thomas, III, 461.
Nasr-eddin Hodja, Les plaisanteries de, Turkish tale from, I, 410.
Neh-Manzer, ou Les Neuf Loges, Persian tale, I, 489 a.
Nereid, captured by resolute perseverance, despite changes of shape, I, 337.
Nereids, Greek, likeness to northern elves and fairies, I, 314;
euphemistic titles for, ib., and n.;
special trees endanger taking by, for those who lie under them, I, 340.
Net, riddle of: if net has taken fish, lady has been unfaithful, I, 191 n.
Neville.
See under Family Names.
Newborn (unborn) children speak, III, 367, and n.; IV, 507 a.
Nibelungenlied, II, 143, 236.
Nicodemus, gospel of, I, 239, 240 n.
Nighean Righ fo Thuinn, The Daughter of King Underwaves, Gaelic tale, I, 297 f.
El niño de Guardia, El santo niño de la Guardia, III, 241 b; IV, 497 a.
Nisami, his poem of The Seven Figures or Beauties, I, 417.
Nix killed by maid with a knife, I, 23 n.
No Song, no Supper, musical entertainment, by Prince Hoare, V, 96.
Noble, Hobie, ballad, IV, 1 ff.
Nonplussing:
fool wins princess by dumfounding her, I, 20, 418 a, 485 a; II, 507 b;
carlin foiled by boy getting the last word, I, 20; III, 496 a;
Fin by Harpkin, I, 21;
fause knicht (devil) by boy, I, 22, 485 b;
king’s son by Tsano d’Oymé, IV, 440 b.
Noon-sprite, German, I, 484 a;
Slavic, IV, 440 b.
See Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν and Mittagsfrau.
North side of burial grounds for unbaptized children, II, 498.
Northumberland, the betrayal of the Earl of, III, 409, 411-14.
Norton, Christopher, III, 404 f.
The Nortons, their part in the Rising in the North, III, 403-6;
the father and two of the sons go to the Low Countries, 418;
the father and four sons said to accompany the Earl of Westmoreland to Spain, 419, 421.
Number riddles or songs, I, 416, and n.
Numbers, favorite:—
Seven.
Seven years (service, absence, penance, etc.), I, 41, 69, 72 f., 77, 189 f., 192, 194-6, 198, 202, 204-6, 211, 224 f., 229-32, 255, 285, 323 f., 342, 344-6, 350, 354, 366, 432, 462, 464 f., 469 f., 473, 475, 477; II, 52, 138, 159, 162 f., 166, 207-9, 233, 283, 500; III, 23, 189, 371, 441, 504; IV, 287, 290 f., 363, 366 f., 433, 454-6, 458, 461; V, 207, 212, 219;
seven brothers, I, 92, 94, 100-4, 107, 251, 433, 492; II, 158, 160-2, 165, 170, and n., 189, 201, 358 f., 361 f., 364, 366, 425; IV, 151, 468, 483; V, 224;
seven sisters, I, 69, 71 f., 74, 76, 80, 107 f., 314-16; II, 295, 311 f., 362, 364, 366; IV, 477, 483, 485; V, 207;
seven sons, I, 362 f., 365-7; II, 65-7, 69, 71 f., 74 f., 77 f., 80, 159, 161; V, 41, 255;
seven (miscellaneous), I, 41, 68, 70, 72, 79, 91, 94, 111, 289, 312, 362, 364, 367, 371; II, 70, 72 f., 75, 77, 79, 82, 318, 365, 370, 467; III, 3, 6-11, 65, 67, 75, 77, 78, 92, 117, 422; IV, 319, 363 f., 366, 368, 496; V, 108, 127, 158, 184, 214, 224, 240.
Twenty-four.
Four-and-twenty knights, ladies, ships etc., I, 68, 70, 330-2, 341, 343, 370; II, 86, 88, 97, 129, 132, 183, 194 f., 241, 291, 299, 312, 315, 357, 371; III, 216, 297-9, 352, 370, 433, 436; IV, 84, 157, 221 f., 226-8, 239 f., 273, 284, 317, 323, 325-7, 368, 381 f., 458, 461, 470, 472, 478; V, 41, 111-13, 117-19, 127, 221, 276.
Thirty-three.
Thirty and three horses, years, etc., I, 58 f., 212, 284, 467, 470, 472, 475, 479; II, 90, 92, 93, 95, 399, 471, 497; III, 453, 464 f., 478; IV, 146, 148, 195 f., 199, 204, 207, 371, 373, 470, 498; V, 36, 122-4, 219.
The Nutbrown Maid, English romance, I, 112; II, 84.
Nuts (walnut, hazel-nut, almond), enclosing costumes, I, 260, and n.
Oath by thorn, II, 111, 154;
by oak, ash and thorn, II, 138;
by corn, II, 144, 149;
grass and corn, II, 151.
Occleve, Thomas, De Regimine Principum, V, 71 n.
Oetavian, metrical romance, II, 33 n., 41, 510.
Ode und de Slang, tale, I, 298.
Odin, I, 13, 67, 95, and nn., 283, 404 f.
Ogier le Danois, I, 239, 275, 319, 340; II, 50; V, 243 b, 290 a.
Ogilvie.
See under Family Names.
Oh ono chrio, burden and couplets, II, 430.
L’Oiseau bleu, tale, V, 40.
Ólafr Tryggvason tries masteries with Eindriði, Eindriði to be baptized, if beaten; shoots a chessman from a boy’s head, III, 18.
Ólafs saga Helga, II, 127.
Olafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Olif, Oliva, Karlamagnus saga, accused of adultery, demands ordeal, champion fights for her, II, 39 f.;
Óluvu kvæði, Färöe ballad on her story, and Spanish prose romance, II, 40.
Olive, will not grow if planted by unchaste person, V, 289 a.
Oliver, I, 277 f.
Omens:
buttons leap from breast, flee from coat, II, 118, 121 (?), 308 (?), 327 f., 331; IV, 466;
heel, lap, came off shoe, III, 384, 386;
corks frae her heels did flee, III, 393;
horse stumbling, IV, 117, 120, 122; V, 254;
nosebleed, II, 118, 308; IV, 117-20, 122, 189, 466, 522 a;
rain upon setting out on a journey, IV, 122;
rings break from fingers, IV, 120;
burst, II, 324, 337; IV, 119, 122;
drop from fingers, II, 331; IV, 118, 122.
One shape by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291, 295; IV, 454 a, 495 a; V, 39 f., 289 b.
Ordeal by hot iron (carrying iron and walking on steel), II, 36;
walking over hot plough-shares and carrying hot irons, 38;
passing through fire in a waxed shift, or wearing a waxed shift which is set on fire, 38 f.;
walking through blazing fire in simple shift, 40;
by water, 38, 40;
being thrown into a fire of thorns, 43 n.;
sea, fire and snake-house, II, 510 b;
battle, II, 34-40, 42 f., 45-8; IV, 371-3.
Orendel, II, 127; IV, 450 b, 463 b.
Orfeo and Heurodis, I, 216.
Orlandino of Folengo, I, 407.
Orlando Furioso, I, 265; II, 113.
Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.
Orpheus and Eurydice, romance and ballad of, I, 216 f.
Ortnit und die Wolfdietriche, IV, 463 b.
Örvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n.; IV, 479 b.
L’os qui chante, IV, 447 b; V, 208 b, 286 a.
Otterburn, Battle of, ballad, III, 289 ff.;
Froissart’s account of the battle, 289-92.
Outlaws (for venison), III, 22-30, 56, 73 f., 76-8;
seven score the regular number of a band, III, 53.
Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 84, 99, 437.
Owain, knight, legend of St Patrick’s Purgatory, I, 306, 308.
Ox, slaughtered, comes to life, in attestation of the immortality of a murdered Christian (Torsten), I, 505 b.
The Paddo, Scottish tale, V, 201.
Pair ride (go) a long distance and never speak, I, 41-4; III, 497 b; V, 207 a, 285 a. (In French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic ballads, not English.)
Pal greive, false, I, 91 f., 95 n.
Palace of Pleasure, Painter’s, I, 269; V, 13, 29.
Palanus, L’histoire de, Comte de Lyon, from romance, II, 42.
Palmerin of England, I, 267; V, 31 n.
Pantschatantra, I, 270, 339 n., 402 n.; II, 499; V, 14, 107.
Paradise in modern Greek quite equivalent to Hades, I, 322 n.;
paradise or wonderland, maid lured away by promise of being taken to one, I, 27, and n., 28, 41, 46, 49, 89 f., 112 (?), 178, 182 (st. 1), 487 a; II, 496 f.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Parents, etc., not to know of death of son, daughter, or of the manner of it, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 381, 384 f., 387-93, 395-8, 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.
Paria, Goethe’s, II, 502 a.
Parker, Martin, III, 227.
Parodies, II, 204; V, 287 a.
La Partie de Chasse de Henri IV, Collé, V, 75.
Parting, Epirot or Albanian custom of, for a long time after betrothal or marrying, I, 502 b.
Partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8;
quail plays partridge’s part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II, 509 f.
Parts exchanged in different versions of stories, man for woman, etc., I, 459; II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 b; IV, 186 a, b, 481 f.; V, 47, 213, 233 f., 296.
Passional, das alte, I, 242 n., 505 a.
Patrañuelo of Timoneda, I, 408.
Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s, I, 257 n.
Pauli’s Schimpf und Ernst, I, 407, 410; III, 53, 208; V, 13.
Pausanias, I, 84; III, 503.
Du Pauvre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
A Peat carried to school by boy as a contribution to the firing, I, 21 f.
Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, I, 392 f.
Pedlar and Robin Hood, III, 154; V, 240.
Pedlars and Robin Hood, III, 170.
Peele, George, his Edward I, III, 48 n., 54 n., 218, 257.
Peggie is over the sie with the souldier, a tune, V, 172.
Peitevin, the Jew, III, 237, and n.
Penances, singular, I, 224, I, J, 225, K, L, 230, 232; V, 212 a.
See Austerities.
Pepys, Samuel, his pleasure at hearing Barbara Allan, II, 276.
Perceforest, romance, I, 240 n., 268; V, 23 n.
Perceval le Gallois, I, 257 n., 261 n., 263, 265 n., 269; II, 51, 502 b, 510 b; III, 503 b, 508 a; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b;
Roman de Perceval, prose, I, 257 n.
See Parzival.
Percy.
See under Family Names.
Percy, Harry, gives Douglas and his host a draught of wine over Newcastle walls after engaging to meet Douglas at Otterburn, III, 296;
asked by his father to put off the battle in order that certain gentlemen may see it, will not, 297;
his generous lament for the death of Douglas, 309, 312.
Percy’s, Thomas, treatment of his texts, his “old copies,” II, 49; III, 461 f.
Peregrinus Compostellanus, Jesuitenkomödie, I, 238 n.
Der Peri, Siberian-Turkish tale, V, 46.
Perjuries, close grazing on, II, 35, and n., 108, 110, 158-65, 171; IV, 465, 468; V, 48, 51 f., 56.
Peter Diemringer of Staufenberg, I, 372.
Peter the Great, Tsar, III, 382 f.
Petronelle and Alphonso, tale of Gower, I, 10.
Pfaffe Âmîs, I, 406.
Die Pfeiferin, Esthonian tale, I, 124 n.
Pheron, son of Sesostris, story of, in Herodotus, I, 271; V, 212 b.
Philemon and Baucis, I, 99.
Philiphaugh, Battle of, ballad, IV, 77 ff.
Pickelheringsspiel, V, 97.
Picken, Andrew, Traditionary Stories of Old Families, V, 207.
The Pilgrim to Compostella, Southey’s tale, I, 238.
Pinkie Cleuch, Battle of, III, 378.
Pipe, fiddle, made from tree growing out of murdered girl’s grave, or from reeds from murdered boy’s grave, or from bone, bones and skin, of murdered boy, reveals the murder, I, 121-33, 135, 493-5; II, 498 b; III, 499 a; IV, 447-9; V, 208 b.
Piping, young man obtains from the devil the power of making women follow his, I, 47.
Pirie’s chair, the lowest seat o hell, I, 439, st. 31.
Pitto, alias Carellus, II, 39.
Placability of the King in Adam Bell, the Gest of Robin Hood, and the tale of Gamelyn, III, 22.
Plague in Scotland, IV, 76 f.
Plants from graves, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200, 379 n., 489 f., 492, 496 b, 506 a; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498 b; III, 498, 510 b, 515; IV, 443, 450 a, 465; V, 31, 207, 224, 226, 262, 285 f., 293, 295 a;
plants from graves, or from dead, with inscriptions, I, 96 f., 99; III, 239.
Pliny, Historia Naturalis, III, 503.
Pluck-buffet, III, 55, 75-7.
Plutarch, Septem Sapientum Convivium, I, 13;
Life of Numa, III, 496.
Poisoning, I, 153-65, 375, 498-501; II, 284-7, 499 a; III, 259, 261, 264, 499 b; IV, 427 f., 449 f., 498; V, 208 f., 242, 286 b, 295 a;
poisoning of young man by sweetheart, wife;
child by grandmother, stepmother, I, 152 f., 158-66, 498-501; IV, 449 f.; V, 209, 286 b;
son poisoned by mother on account of his marrying unacceptably, II, 284-7;
mother attempting to poison son’s wife, the pair exchange cups, and son is poisoned, I, 155 f.; III, 499 b; V, 295 a;
mother poisons son’s wife, I, 156 f.;
poisoning of false lover by his former mistress, IV, 427 f.;
brother poisoned by sister to remove an obstacle to her passion, Slavic and Lithuanian ballads, I, 156 b, 499 a; II, 499 a; III, 499 b; V, 286 b;
poisoning with snakes (“eels,” “small fishes”) as food or with their virus in drink, I, 153-65, 498-501; III, 499 b; IV, 449 f.; V, 209;
with the venom of a toad, I, 154, 157;
poison grains in drink given by elves, I, 375.
Poludnitsa, Russian sprite, I, 14 n.
Ponthus of Galyce, The Noble History of, prose romance, III, 179.
Porter thirty years and three, I, 284, 465, 467, 470, 472, 475, 479;
porter or warden has his neck wrung, is run through, etc., III, 25, 95 n., 100, 480, 482;
Horn throws him over the bridge, I, 190.
Posing of princess by fool (who gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b.
Potter, disguise as, assumed by Hereward, Wallace, Eustace, Robin Hood, III, 109.
Du Povre mercier, fabliau, III, 54.
Precocity of body and mind in heroes and champions, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b; V, 226 a, 292 a, 295 a.
Le prêt miraculeusement remboursé, V, 297 a.
Prevarications of woman who is discovered to have been visited by a lover (not a knight, but a maid; maid wears sword? not a sword, but a bunch of keys, etc.); in tragic ballads, II, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a;
in comic, V, 88-95, 303 f.
Priests, five hundred, say mass at Durham field and afterwards take part in the fight, III, 286.
Primaleon, I, 269.
Primrose (a place), II, 212.
Prince, figuring as a menial, is successful in a thrice repeated battle, tourney, race, task, after which he is in condition to reveal his rank and history, V, 44-7.
Prince Calaf, Persian story, I, 417.
Prince Peter of Murom and his wife Fevronija, Russian legend, IV, 439 a.
Prince who invites an angel to his wedding, legend, V, 290 a.
La Princesse et sa Nourrice, Greek tale, I, 489.
Prior of St Mary abbey withstands the cruelty and greed of the abbot, III, 60.
Prodigal son recommended by his father to hang himself; the rope pulls down a concealed treasure; the prodigal reforms, V, 12 f., 19 f.;
prodigal son remembers a paper left by his father, or a key left by his mother, by which he receives money, V, 15-18.
Propertius, II, 236 n., 502 a.
Protesilaus, I, 99.
Protevangelium of James, I, 271.
Proud porter, I, 284, 464, 465, 467, 470, 472, 474, 479, 481; II, 53, 369-71, 468, 475; V, 219.
Pseudo-Matthew’s Gospel, I, 271; II, 1, 7.
Pšezpolnica, the Wendish, I, 484 a.
Punishments (unusual):
rolling down a declivity in a spiked barrel, tun set with knives, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32;
dragging in a barrel stuck with nails, V, 48;
boiling in a caldron, boiling in oil or molten lead, throwing into boiling oil, II, 321 n., 327; V, 230, 281;
half-hanging, quartering, seething in boiling lead, cutting joints asunder, and burning, V, 53;
half-hanging and seething in boiling lead, 56.
Punker shoots a coin from his son’s head, III, 18.
Pushkin, verses from The Three Ravens pass for his, I, 253.
Queen asks the lives of Adam Bell, etc., of the king, III, 28;
her extravagant partiality for Cloudesly and his family, 30.
Queen of Fairy’s beauty destroyed (temporarily) by intercourse with Thomas, I, 327.
Queen of Sheba’s hard questions, I, 404 n.
Queen releases the Laird of Logie from prison by a trick, III, 452 ff.; IV, 516; V, 300.
Queen’s Maries, III, 381, 382 n., 385 f., 388, 391-9; IV, 508-12; V, 246, 298 f.
Queens of England; of Scotland.
See under Kings.
Questions and tasks offset by other questions and requisitions, I, 6 ff., etc.
See Tasks.
Quintalin, in the saga of Samson the Fair, I, 50, 54, 259.
Rabssaldchal, King, and his minister’s daughter-in-law, I, 12.
Radloff, Proben der Volkslitteratur der türkischen Stämme Süd-Siberiens, I, 10, 418, 486; II, 506 b; V, 46.
Rævens Arvegods, III, 499.
Ragnars saga loðbrókar, I, 9 n.
The Raid of the Reid Swyre, III, 317.
The Rainbow, name of a ship, V, 143.
Rájá Rasálu, story of, V, 33 f.
Rakshas, Indian, gives riddles, I, 14.
Ramiro, King of Leon, V, 4-6; ballad of, 6.
Ransom of woman refused by father, mother, etc., paid by husband, II, 346 f.; III, 516 a; IV, 481 a; V, 231 a;
paid by lover, II, 347-54; III, 516 b; IV, 481; V, 231-3;
parts reversed, man ransomed by true-love, II, 349 f., 514 a; III, 516 f.; IV, 481 f.; V, 233 f., 296;
variations on this theme, III, 516 f.; IV, 481 a;
woman will dress in gay colors upon death of blood-relations, in black for husband, II, 347; V, 231;
maid imprecates curses on her relations, II, 348 b; IV, 481; V, 231 f.;
invokes blessings on lover, V, 231 f.;
ransom of five thousand, five hundred pound, ten thousand, one thousand, five hundred crowns, contributed by bystanders for a wife to save her husband’s life, IV, 127, 129-31, 133, 135, 137, 139.
Das Räthsel, tale of the Grimms, I, 417.
Räthselfragen, I, 2 n.
Räthsellieder, I, 1, 2.
Rauf Coilyear, rhymed tale, V, 69 n., 70 f., 74.
Ravnlil, false accuser of Gunild, II, 35.
Il re alla caccia, play of Goldoni, V, 75.
Li Reali di Francia, II, 68 n.; V, 284 a.
The Red Bull of Norroway, Scottish tale, I, 307 n., 461 n.
The Red Etin, Scottish tale, The Red Etin puts trying questions, I, 484 b; V, 201.
Red Rowan, III, 471, 474.
Der Reiger, rhymed tale, V, 23 n.
De la reine qui tua son séneschal, conte, I, 489.
Reinfrid von Braunschweig, I, 196, 459.
Der Reiter in Seiden, German tale, I, 47.
Rejuvenation of old woman by burning to bones and throwing bones into tub of milk, I, 507 b.
Remi, Philippe de, Sire de Beaumanor, his romance of Jehan et Blonde (Blonde of Oxford), I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.
Remorse, immediate, after a cruel deed, II, 242, 245 f., 252, 266, 271; V, 35, 37.
Renard le Contrefait, Old French romance, I, 263.
Renold, miller’s son, Reynolde, one of Robin Hood’s men, III, 54, 70.
Repetition in dialogue, I, 157; V, 286 b.
Rescue of Johnny More by gigantic uncles, IV, 398 f.
Reserve in duels of a peculiarly formidable sword, II, 35.
Reven og Bjönnen, Reven og Nils fiskar, I, 144 b.
Reviling, reproaching, scolding spirits and elves, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b.
Revolving palace, I, 277.
Rhodes, house of the, III, 428, 433;
house of Rothes, V, 247 f.
Riccio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.
Richard (Cœur de Lion), III, 220, 223, 227, 230;
the romance, I, 320 n.; II, 511 b, 513 a; III, 55.
Richarda, or Richardis, wife of the Emperor Charles III, her ordeal, II, 38 f.
Richars li Biaus, romance, III, 508 a.
Rid Square, Song of the, V, 307 b.
Riddle-craft practised by preternatural beings:
the Devil, I, 4 f. (C, D), 14; V, 283;
Odin, Thor, Vafþrúðnir, Alvíss, berggeist, dragon, rusalka, vila, rakshas, I, 13 f.;
baba-yaga, pšezpolnica, mittagsfrau, serpolnica, Red Etin, I, 484;
air-sprite, ogre, II, 495.
Riddles (songs, ballads and tales): I, 1-5, 9-11, 13 f., 404-23, 426-30, 484; II, 495, 506 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439, 459 f.; V, 205, 216 f., 283 f., 291.
Riddles:
beautiful girl not to be had by any man who cannot puzzle her father with a riddle, Gaelic tale, I, 417 b;
man wins wife by instructing her how to answer her mother’s riddles, Lithuanian tale, I, 418 f.;
riddles at marriages of Russian peasants, I, 418.
Penalty for not guessing is life, I, 10, 14, 404-6; 409, 411, 413, 447; II, 495 b, 506 b; III, 496 a; IV, 439 a; V, 205 a, 291;
forfeit of kingdom, possessions, place, paying tribute, etc., I, 10-13, 404, 406-8, 410; IV, 459 b;
to be taken off by the Devil, I, 5, 205;
by rusalka, I, 14;
rewards to guessers, I, 407 b, 409 f., 416 n.; II, 495 a;
princess requires lovers to give her riddles, those who cannot pose her to lose their heads, I, 417;
riddles to be guessed as condition of marriage, German, I, 1 f., 484 a;
Slavic, I, 2 f., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a;
Gaelic, I, 3;
riddles guessed win a husband, I, 1-5, 10, 13, 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a;
win a wife, I, 416 f., 420-23, 426-30; IV, 439 a; V, 216 f.
Riddles in the Mahā-bhārata and Kathā-sarit-sāgara, II, 495.
Riddles (Chaldean), given by wise man to the gods, IV, 439.
The Ridere (Knight) of Riddles, West Highland Tale, I, 417.
Riding into hall, knights and others, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a.
Right-hitting Brand, III, 43 b, n.; V, 297 a.
Rimild, Rimnild==Rymenhild, Horn’s love, I, 190 f.
Ring halved at parting by husband and wife (lovers), I, 194-8, 457 n., 470, 502 b, 503 a; V, 5;
such half-rings often dug up, I, 194 n.;
ring in betrothal, I, 199 a, n.; V, 287 b;
ring, or half-ring, thrown into a cup of wine drunk of by woman, serves to identify husband or lover returned after long absence, I, 190 f., 194-8, 200, 202-7, 502 b, 503 b; V, 5, 287 b;
halves of ring run together, join of themselves, I, 194 f., 198; II, 66 n.; IV, 463 b;
ring-stories, similar (not noticed in detail), I, 503 a, 508 b; IV, 450 b;
ring, or arm bent into a ring, magical revelations made by looking through, III, 411; V, 299 b;
bribing to secrecy with an arm-ring, II, 51, 54 (?).
Der Ring ehelicher Treue, German tale, I, 198.
Der Ritter Galmi mit der Hertzogin auss Britanien, play by Hans Sachs, II, 42.
Ritter Galmien, vom, volksbuch, II, 42.
Der Ritter von Staufenberg, I, 372-4, 387; III, 52 n.; V, 290 b;
after a happy and prosperous connection with an elf, marries, and dies within three days, I, 373 f.
Rizzio, David, murder of, III, 399 ff.
Roads to heaven, paradise, purgatory, hell, fairy-land (some or all) pointed out by Fairy Queen to Thomas Rymer, I, 324 f., 328; IV, 454 f., 458.
See I, 359.
Rob Roy, ballad, IV, 243 ff.
Robber-ballads, klepht, Magyar, Russian, Italian, III, 49, IV, 497 a.
Robe and fee, chief-justice retained by, III, 52, 61 (sts. 93, 107).
Robert le Diablo, II, 303; III, 515 b; IV, 479 b.
Robert Earl of Huntington, Robin Hood represented as, in Munday’s play of The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, and in Munday and Chettle’s play of The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 46, and n., 519 b;
subsequently, in a pretended epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233, and in late ballads, II, 413 f.; III, 204, 218, 227.
The author of The Birth, Breeding, etc., of Robin Hood knows nothing of the Earl of Huntington, III, 214.
For The Downfall, etc., see III, 179; V, 100.
Robin and Marion, in French literature, III, 46.
Robin Hood:
his alleged noble extraction, III, 46, and n.;
as he appears in ballads, III, 42 f.;
historical theories about, 43;
his comrades, 43.
the ballads, dates and sorts, 42.
his band==7 score, III, 65 (185), 67, 75, 78;
100 bowmen, III, 41 n.;
300 yeomen, III, 180;
150 + 60 mentioned, III, 181;
kept 300 bowmen before his outlawry, then 100, III, 228.
beguiled and bled to death by the prioress of Kirkley, III, 78, 103, 105 f., or by a monk, friar, 226, 231.
Bishop of Ely routed by, III, 230.
his bower, III, 518 f.
builds an almshouse, III, 213;
eight almshouses, 230.
captures a bishop and takes a large sum from him, III, 192, 195;
makes him sing a mass, 192, 196, 199, 202, 204;
dance in his boots, 195.
his comrades, III, 43, and n; V, 297 a.
connection of his name with natural objects and archaic remains, III, 46 f., and notes; IV, 496 f.
his courtesy, III, 56, 58, 67, 69 f. (270-80), 74 f. (376-85), 229 f., etc.
ecclesiastics of all descriptions his chief prey (as of Gamelyn), III, 41 n., 51, 57, 67.
his epitaph, III, 107, 226, 233.
game, pageant, or the like, called Robynhode, III, 44, 518.
Gest of Robyn Hode, composition and argument of, III, 49 f.;
topography of, 50 f.
Golden Prize: forces two priests, who pretend to have not a penny, to pray for money, and finds 500 pounds on them, III, 209.
how characterized in the older ballads, III, 43.
husbandmen and yeomen favored by him, III, 57, 69, 221, 230.
identified by J. Hunter as a porter in the king’s household under Edward II, III, 55 f.
imitated by disorderly people, III, 41.
in danger from a bishop escapes to his band in the disguise of an old woman, robs the bishop of five hundred pounds, and makes him sing a mass, III, 192.
in the fifteenth century, III, 41; V, 240 a.
kills fifteen foresters when fifteen years old, III, 176.
kindness to the poor, III, 228 f.;
consideration for husbandmen, III, 57, 230.
Life of, in Sloane MS. 780, III, 46 b, n., 103, 121 b, n., 129, 173, 175.
loves no man so much as his king, III, 75.
marries Allen a Dale to his true-love in spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.
meets with his match, or is disgracefully worsted, ballads to this effect, III, 110, 123-5, 130 f., 134, 137, 140, 145, 151 f., 154, 156, 159, 165, 168, 171.
his name foisted into ballads which in no way belong to the cycle, I, 109, 302, 306, 412 f., 415-17, 421, 423.
the name Robinhood occurs 1380-81, IV, 496.
outlawed, III, 46 n., 228.
pay of his men:
twenty marks a year and two suits of clothing, III, 64 (with bounties, 75);
a noble every Sunday and a new suit every holy day, III, 126.
his piety and special devotion to the Virgin, III, 41 n., 51, 57, 59 f., 67 f., 93, 97 f.
plays, III, 41, and n., 44-6, 90 f., 108, 114 f., 122, 127 f., 134, 518 b;
plays or games of archery, IV, 496 b;
Robyn Hod and the Shryff off Nottyngham, III, 90 n.
the poor spared and befriended by, III, 41 n., 228.
Potter, Robin Hood and the, and Great Russian bylinas, IV, 497 a.
his profuseness, III, 69 f., 77, 228.
relieves an impoverished knight, III, 57-60;
will not take back a loan of £400, having been repaid by the Virgin, but gives him 400 more overpaid by the monk of St Mary, 69 f.
rescues Will Stutly, III, 16.
respect for women:
would do no harm to any company in which there was a woman, III, 41 n., 57, 109, 228;
will not suffer Little John to burn Kirklees (though the prioress has been his death), out of consideration for women, 105 f.
his spite against the clergy, reasons for it, III, 221, 228, 230.
stays with the king 15 months, sickens of the service, obtains permission to make a pilgrimage to a chapel at Barnsdale, remains in the greenwood 22 years, III, 77 f.
summoned by Queen Katherine to be of her side in a shooting-match with the king’s archers;
wins for her, III, 198-204, 206;
is graciously treated, pardoned, by the king, 200, 204.
takes gold from the king’s harbingers and presents it to the queen, III, 198, 200, 202.
theories assigning him an historical character, III, 43, 56 f.;
a mythical, III, 47 f.
turns fisherman, and takes a French ship, III, 211-13.
will not dine until he has some guest that can pay for entertainment, III, 51, 56, 58, 66 f.
will not eat or drink till he has seen a friar who, Scadlock says, will beat both John and Robin, III, 124.
will not take God (Jesus), Peter, Paul or John as security for a loan, but accepts the Virgin immediately, III, 59.
will not take small sums, or a man’s spending-money, III, 58, 66, 75.
a tune, III, 145, 150 n.;
Bold Robin Hood, a tune, III, 198.
Robin Hood and the Fifteen Foresters, tune, III, 133 n.
Robin Hood and Little John, a comedy, III, 134.
Robin Hood’s bower, III, 518 f.
Robin Lyth, mistaken title of Ritson’s, III, 13.
Robin’s Tesment, I, 144 b;
Robin’s Last Will, The, V, 286 b.
Robyn Hode in Barnysdale stode, mock song in The Four Elements, III, 42 n.
Rögutaja’s wife, Esthonian saga, I, 124 n.
Der Rohrstengel, tale, I, 125.
Le Roi et le Fermier, play of Sédaine, V, 75.
Le Roi et le Meunier, translation of a play of Dodsley’s, V, 75.
Le Roi Hugon, by Nivelle de la Chaussée, I, 283.
Roig, the poet, I, 238.
Roister Doister, play by Nicholas Udall, III, 294.
Roland, of the twelve peers, I, 277.
Röndólfr, IV, 502 b.
Rookhope, foray into, III, 439 ff.
Rosamonde and Élie de Saint-Gille, story of, I, 458 n.
La Rose de Pimperlé, tale, IV, 447 b.
Rose, Sir James the, ballad, IV, 155 ff.
Les roseaux qui chantent, tales, III, 499 a; IV, 447 b; V, 208 b.
Rosemunda, Lombard queen of 6th century, relation of her story to ballad of Donna Lombarda, etc., V, 286 b, 295 a.
Rosette, ugly lady in Gautier’s Conte dn Graal, V, 289 b.
Roswall and Lillian, A pleasant History of, V, 43-5;
tales resembling, 45-57, 280 f.
Rothes, house of, V, 247 f.;
house of the Rhodes, III, 433.
Rowan-tree: spot where rowan-tree chest stands not affected by witchcraft, I, 83 f.
Rune preservative of chastity, II, 506 a;
sleep induced by runes (charm), I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f.;
will controlled by runes, I, 362.
Rusalka, Russian, gives riddles, I, 14; II, 495.
Rymenhild, daughter of King Ailmar of Westerness, beloved of Horn, I, 188-90.
Sacchetti, I, 406.
Sachs, Hans. See Hans Sachs.
Sad-der, Persian, II, 235.
Sadko, story of, in Russian popular epics, II, 15, 510 a; V, 220 a.
Sagas: Egils ok Ásmundar saga, IV, 443.
Flóamanna saga, II, 35 n.; V, 275.
Friðþjófs saga, II, 376.
Gríms saga loðinkinna, I, 292 f.
Gull-þóris saga, IV, 502 a.
Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu, II, 35 n.; V, 298 a.
Göngu-Hrólfs saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.
Hálfs saga, I, 95; II, 15.
Heiðreks saga, V, 8.
Hemings þáttr, III, 17, 19 n.
Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.
Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 307, 315, 489 b.
Hrólfs saga kraka, I, 290 n., 297, 393, 489.
Hrómundar saga, I, 67, 95.
Karlamagnus saga, I, 275, and n.; II, 39 f.
Kristni saga, I, 96.
Mágus saga, I, 283 n.
Maríu saga, I, 98; III, 52 n., 240.
Möttuls saga, I, 258-60, 261 n.
Ólafs saga helga, II, 127.
Ólafs saga Tryggvasonar, III, 18, 19 n.
Parcevals saga, I, 257 n.
Ragnars saga loðbrókar, I, 9 n.
Samsons saga fagra, I, 50, 259.
Sturlaugs saga starfsama, II, 35 n.
Svarfdœlasaga, I, 96; II, 35 n.
Sörla þáttr, I, 94 n.
Þiðriks saga, I, 49, 94 n.; II, 35 n., 41; III, 16; V, 243 b.
Tristrams saga ok Ísondar, I, 98, 487.
Vemundar saga ok Vígaskútu, IV, 502 a.
Vilkina saga, III, 16.
Völsunga saga, I, 392; II, 127.
Örvar-Odds saga, II, 50 n; IV, 479 b.
Sage (or parsley) hides the Virgin from Herod, II, 8 n.
La Sage-femme et la Fée, tale, V, 215.
Saint Andrew, his legend, I, 14, and n., 484 b; II, 495 b, 507 a.
Saint Anne, I, 237; II, 379.
Saint Bartholomew, I, 14, and n.
Saint George, I, 487 n.; II, 509 a;
called Our Lady’s knight, III, 294, 297, 520 a; IV, 499; V, 244 b, 297 b.
Saint George play in Cheshire, V, 291.
Saint James, Pilgrims of, legend, I, 236-9;
miracles of, attributed to San Domingo, 238.
Saint Johannes Eleemosynarius, II, 235.
Saint Mary’s knot, III, 462 n., 465.
Saint Olof, Swedish legend of, I, 95.
Saint Oswald, IV, 463 b.
Saint Serf, I, 14 n.
Saint Stephen and Herod, I, 233 ff.
Saint Stephen, patron of horses, a stable-groom in Swedish ballads, I, 235;
his feast a great Horse Day, I, 235 n.;
this a continuation of heathenism, 236.
Saint Stephen of Hungary and Saint Gunther, I, 239.
Saint Tryphine, Breton mystery, V, 292 a.
Saint Ulrich, Slovenian ballad, I, 14, and n.
Saint Vicelin, II, 235.
Saint William of Norwich, III, 241 a; V, 297 b.
Salman und Morolf, Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517; IV, 450, 463 b; V, 3 f.
Salomon and Saturn, Anglo-Saxon, I, 2 n., 13 n.; II, 507 a.
Saltoun, Lord, and Auchanachie, ballad, IV, 347 ff.
Salve.
See Fairy salve.
Samaritan woman, story of, blended with traditions concerning Mary Magdalen and with that of The Cruel Mother, I, 228-30, 232; II, 501 b; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b;
with that of The Cruel Mother, without the Magdalen (Slavic), I, 230 f.; III, 502 b; IV, 451 b; V, 288 a.
Samson the Fair, saga, I, 50, 259, and n.
Samson’s, Solomon’s, and Hiram’s riddles, I, 404.
San Domingo de la Calzada, Spanish legend, I, 238.
Sången om den Friköpta, Estlander’s discussion of, IV, 482 a; V, 231 a.
Sant Oswaldes Leben, IV, 463 b.
El santa niño de la Guardia, III, 241; IV, 497.
Santo Antonio e a Princeza, Portuguese legend, II, 513 a.
Santo Stefano di Calcinaia, twentieth story of, II, 498 b.
Sark.
See Shirt.
Saxo Grammaticus, I, 67, 94 n., 323; II, 14 f., 127; III, 16 f., 411 n.
Scala Celi, III, 54.
Scalachronica, I, 261, 317; II, 19 n.
Scathelock (in all copies of the Gest but a), Scadlock, Scarlok, Scarlet, an original comrade of Robin Hood, and the most prominent after Little John, III, 56 f., 59 f., 66, 70, 92, 99, 104, 124, 129;
originally Young Gamwell (nephew of Robin Hood), according to late ballad, 146, 150;
kills one of three giants and marries a princess, 150;
finds his match, 169, 171;
identified in a life of Robin Hood with Allen a Dale, 173;
made the chief archer after Robin Hood, 197 n., 201.
Schimong, Chinese emperor, V, 226 a.
Eine schöne und liebliche History vom edlen und theuren Ritter Galmien, II, 42.
Die Schönste, Greek tale, I, 313.
Schupp, Balthasar, I, 408.
Scogin, The Jests of, I, 128 n.; IV, 497 a.
Scolding, reproaching, reviling of sprites and elves, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b;
scolding or reviling will not be endured by the better sort of these, I, 485; IV, 440 b.
Scolding woman too much for the devil, V, 107 f., 305 a.
La Scomessa, Italian tale, V, 97.
Scott.
See under Family Names.
Scott, Sir Walter (novels and poems), I, 210; II, 57, 227, 234, 512; III, 43, 367 n.; IV, 25, 106, 210, 218, 239, 244 f., 450, 463 a; V, 72 n., 74, 160.
Scroop, Lord, of Bolton, Henry, Thomas, Warden of the West Marches, III, 462, 469 f., 472-4; IV, 9.
Seals (Finns) capable of casting their skins and taking human shape, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.
Sebilla, Sibilla, romances of, II, 40, and n.
Secrets revealed (sometimes after an oath of silence) to a stone, stove, a doll, a gelding, I, 488 a; V, 48, and n., 51 f., 56.
Security: the Virgin as security for a loan, III, 51 f., 59 (62-6), 68 (249 f.);
God for security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.
Seductive music, horn, harp or song, I, 15-17, 25, 28 b, 31-5, 37 f., 44, 50, 55, 485 b; IV, 441.
Seneca, III, 306.
Sénecé, Filer le parfait amour, I, 269.
Sercambi, Novelle di, V, 97.
Sermones Parati, V, 33.
Serpolnica, I, 484 b.
Service, fruitless, of seven years, for king’s daughter, I, 204-6, 255; V, 212 b.
Serving man aspiring to match with an earl’s daughter is strongly backed by his noble master, II, 443-5, 448-50, 453.
Seton, Bonny John, ballad, IV, 51 ff.
The Seven Figures (or Beauties), Persian poem, I, 417.
Seven Sages, Seven Wise Masters, I, 392; II, 511 b.
Seyf El-Mulook, story of (Lane’s Thousand and One Nights), II, 511 b.
Seymour, Jane. See Jane, Queen.
Shakspere,
Cymbeline, V, 23 n.;
Hamlet, V, 201 n.;
Henry the Fourth, I, III, 44 n.; II, III, 129; IV, 36;
Henry the Sixth, III, II, 181;
King Lear, II, 240; V, 201;
Merry Wives, I, 322 n.; III, 129;
Much Ado, V, 201 n.;
Pericles, I, 416;
Richard the Third, II, 143;
Taming of the Shrew, V, 201;
Twelfth Night, IV, 507 a; V, 287 b.
Shape, one by day, another by night, I, 290, and n., 291, 295; IV, 454 a, 495 a; V, 39 f.
Sheath and knife signifying mother and child, I, 183 f., 186; V, 210.
Shee an Gannon, IV, 479 b.
Sheet, sark, smock (for the dead), one half cambric, the other needle work, one side of beaten gold, the other needle work, one half silk, the other cambric, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471, 485.
The Shepherd and the King, broadside ballad, V, 73.
Shepherd’s daughter (pretended) persists in marrying a knight whom the king has adjudged to her, II, 459-76;
makes him think her a beggar’s brat, carl’s daughter, 462-4, 466 f., 469-73, 476.
Sheriff and outlaws (especially the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood), III, 26, 28, 57, 63-6, 70-3, 93 f., 97 f., 100 f., 111-13, 117-19, 157, 180-7, 222-4.
Ship, in a bad storm, promised that gold shall be her hire if she will behave well, gold nails for iron, IV, 379 f.; V, 276;
silver and gold bolts driven in for iron and oak wanting, IV, 381 f.;
leaking badly, silken cloath and canvass stuffed in to calk her, II, 27;
wrapped round with feather beds and canvass, or canvass, and pitched, II, 28; IV, 379-82; V, 276.
Ships, intelligent and talking, IV, 376-80; V, 275 f.;
race of, forty-five, fifty-three, twenty-one ships, and all wrecked but one, IV, 378-82; V, 275 f.;
splendid ships, I, 72, 312, 474; II, 13, 30, 217 f.; III, 340; IV, 472; V, 285;
ships stopped or endangered; sinful parties, or other persons determined by lot, being thrown into sea, or put out of the ship, or confessing, or vowing offerings, or a captive being released, the voyage proceeds, I, 244-6; II, 13-16, 510 a; IV, 452, 463 a; V, 220 a, 288 a, 292 a;
ship stopped by serpents till a holy man whose instruction they desire shall be delivered to them; he throws himself in, the ship moves on, II, 13 f. n.
Shirt, custom of maid’s making one for her betrothed, V, 284;
significance of a man’s making such a request, 284;
shirt demanded by Elfin Knight, I, 7; V, 284.
Shoes slacked to run, II, 115, 177, 257, 313, 379, 395; IV, 398;
cast off to run, II, 125, 212, 287.
Shooting from boy’s (man’s) head of apple, nut, chessman, coin, and similar feats, III, 16-21.
Shooting under hand, III, 199, 202, 204.
Shoulder, looking over the left shoulder, I, 100 (twice), 103, 464, 490 (left collar-bane), 492; III, 259, 263 f., 339, 368 f., 413, 465, 488; IV, 11, 13, 15, 17 f., 20, 52, 135, 445, 518-20. (See V, 286 a.)
Shovell, Sir Cloudesley (“Shawfield”), V, 147.
Shrift saves a ship endangered by a storm, II, 15;
sinner thrown overboard to save a ship taken to heaven by the Virgin for the shrift he has made, II, 16.
Shukasaptati, Seventy Tales of a Parrot, I, 11 n., 12 n., 13, 268 n., 270, and n.; V, 289 a.
Sibilla, wife of Charles the Great, suspected of unfaithfulness, various forms of the story, II, 40 f.
Siddhi-Kür, I, 402.
Side, Armstrongs of the, especially Jock o the Side, III, 475 ff.
Sidney’s admiration of the song of Percy and Douglas, III, 305.
Le sifflet enchanté, Le sifflet qui parle, tale, I, 493 b; II, 498 b; III, 499 a.
Sigrdrífumál, I, 392.
Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana, III, II, 127.
Simon, Simond, Peter, a noble gunner employed by Lord Howard against Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-5, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.
Simon the Foundling, Servian hero, V, 295 a.
Sinadab, story of, V, 12.
Der singende Knochen, tale, I, 125.
Das singende springende Löweneckerchen, tale, I, 307 n.
Sinkarib, Histoire de, et de ses deux Visirs, Persian tale, I, 11 n.
Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, romance, II, 499, 506, 513; III, 520;
the French romance, II, 511.
Sir Broninge, knight, I, 210.
Sir Eger, Sir Grahame, and Sir Gray-Steel, romance, I, 209.
Sir Eglamour of Artois, romance, I, 209; II, 511 a.
Sir Egrabell, I, 210.
Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight, romance, I, 257 n.
Sir Gowther, II, 303.
Sir Hugh, ballad of A. Cunningham, II, 260.
Sir Isumbras, romance, II, 513 a.
Sir James the Ross, A Historical Ballad, by Michael Bruce, IV, 156. See Rose.
Sir Olaf (Oluf), and the elf, I, 374-8;
poisoned by the elf for inconstancy, 375;
is run through with a sword for refusing to consort with elves, 375;
is struck by elf to whom he has declined to plight himself (being already betrothed) and dies in a day, 375 f.;
may choose between living with the elves and dying, 377.
Sir Orpheo, Orfeo, romance, I, 216, 340, 504 a; II, 128.
Sir Perceval, English romance, II, 51.
See Perceval.
Sir Ryalas, I, 212 f.
Sir Triamour, romance, II, 41; V, 176.
Sir Tristrem, romance, I, 67, 317, 487 a; II, 127.
Sisibe, wife of Sigmundr, falsely accused of adultery, II, 41.
Sister comes every Saturday to comb the head of a brother who has been transformed into a worm, I, 315;
the same, by sister changed to a mackerel, 316.
Sister hunted to death by rival in love, V, 158.
Sisters (sister) killed or maltreated by robbers who turn out to be their brothers, I, 171-7;
Russian ballad, II, 499 a.
Skelton, John, Against the Scottes, Chorus de Dis, IV, 499 a;
Colyn Cloute, V, 100;
perhaps author of a Robin Hood pageant, III, 519 b.
Skikkju Rímur, or Mantle Rhymes, Icelandic, I, 259, 261 n., 264 n.
Skuin over de groenelands heide, III, 502.
Slangen og den lille Pige, Danish tale, I, 307.
Slaughter in large numbers of relations of lady-love by lover:
six or seven brothers and father and other kinsmen, I, 89;
father, eleven brothers, seven brothers-in-law, 91;
father and six brothers, 92;
six brothers, 94 n.;
father and seven brothers, 101 f.;
six or seven brothers, II, 170, and n. (eighteen thousand assailants, I, 91;
fourteen of father’s best men, I, 100, 108).
Sleep, induced by charms, runes, I, 28, 48, 55, 391 f.;
by runes written on sheets of a bed, 391;
by a letter inserted between sheet and coverlet, by an enchanted feather, by runes written on cushions, 392;
by a soporific pillow, I, 393;
by sleep-thorns, -pins, I, 392 f.; III, 506; IV, 459;
by strewing broom-blossoms at a man’s head and feet (on his neck), I, 394 f.;
by magic of some sort, V, 2;
by music, see Music.
Sleep: man in deep (unnatural) sleep cannot be roused by maid at a critical moment; servant afterwards repeats to him what has occurred, I, 307, and n.
Sleep you, wake you, the formula, II, 240, 513 a; III, 514 a; V, 201 b, 225 b.
Sleeping potion given to woman by lover to enable her to escape from her husband, or lover to carry her off, V, 3 f., 6 f., 280;
sleeping potion taken by maid to enable her to escape to her lover, II, 358 (and evidently intended in other copies of the ballad, though not mentioned);
given by friendly hostess, to save girl’s honor, II, 356 b;
administered to a gallant who is to pass the night with a girl, I, 393; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b.
Sleeping under trees.
See Trees.
Sługobyl, Polish tale, V, 46 n.
Small-maids Land, I, 259.
The Smith and the Demon, Russian tale, I, 507.
Solfager, Suolfar, King David’s (Sir David’s) wife, Solfot, V, 7 f., 280.
Solomon and his wife, tales of, V, 2-4, 279.
Solomon and Kitovras, V, 2.
Solomon and Morolf, III, 122, 517; IV, 450, 463 b; V, 3 f.
Solomon and his queen, Russian, Servian, and German tale, V, 2 f.
Solomon and Saturn. See Salomon and Saturn.
Solomon’s riddles, I, 404.
Sölvi, IV, 502 a.
Son of a king liberates a prisoner (prisoners) of his father; the service is gratefully returned in a subsequent emergency, V, 43-57.
Song (Liedlein) von dreierlei Stimmen sung by one person, I, 34; V, 285 a.
Song of the false knight (Halewijn==elf-knight) excites longing, I, 25 ff., 485; V, 285.
Song in ballad repeated, I, 478; V, 16, 51 f., 214 f., 218 f.
Songs of the Ghilanis, Persian, II, 506 b.
Soporific effect of music, I, 55; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; IV, 18-21; V, 220 b.
Sörla þáttr, I, 94 n.
Sörli, IV, 502 a.
Souling, song so called, V, 291 a.
Sovereignty, her will, is what a woman most desires, I, 290-295; V, 289 b.
Sovereignty of Erin, given by a disenchanted hag to her deliverer, V, 289 b.
Sower, Legend of the (miraculous harvest), II, 7-9, 509 f.; III, 507 b; IV, 462 b; V, 220 a.
Spectral or elvish knights, combats with, II, 56 f., 511 a; III, 508.
The Spectre Bridegroom, Cornish tale, V, 59, 64.
Spell to recall a (dead) lover: boiling a dead man’s head, bones, carcass in a pot; burning a piece of the lover’s clothing, or a cat, in a hot oven, V, 61.
Spencer, Hugh, his (ballad) feats in France, III, 275 ff.;
various historical Hugh Spensers, 276.
Spenser, Fairy Queen, I, 267.
Der Spiegel, of Meister Alswert, I, 267 n.
Ein Spiel von dem Freiheit, I, 2 n., 415.
Spiked barrel, punishment of rolling down a declivity or dragging in, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, 48.
Ein Spil von einem Kaiser und eim Apt, farce, I, 407.
Spirits, or malignant uncanny beings, baffled, by scolding, or by getting the last word, I, 20-22, 485; II, 496 b; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.
Spring, lady whose lover is absent is to look every day into; if she sees his shadow, he is on the point of marrying another, I, 192.
Spring wells up where innocent maid’s head falls, I, 172.
Sprites, reviling or scolding of, an effectual way of baffling them, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b;
will not be endured by the better sort of these, I, 485; IV, 440 b.
Spurningen, Norse tale, I, 418.
The Squire of Low Degree, romance, I, 255; II, 512 a; III, 501 a.
S. S., signature of No 150, III, 218 f.
Staffans-skede, diversion of Swedish boys at feast of St Stephen, I, 234 n.
Stanley.
See under Family Names.
Stephen and Herod, legend of, combined with legends of the infancy of Jesus, I, 233.
Stephening, I, 234 n.; V, 291.
Stepmother (witch) transforms maid (generally) to hideous shape, tree, serpent, fish, wolf, I, 178, 290-3, 297, 307, 309 f., 312 f.; II, 503-5; V, 214;
two maids, sisters, V, 214 f.;
maid and brother, I, 290 n., 296, 315 f., 336 f.;
two maids and brother, I, 306;
poisons child, I, 163-6; IV, 450 a; V, 209 a (see I, 154 f.).
Stev-stamme, I, 7 n.
Steven, Sir, I, 293, 295.
Steward, tutor or other servant, charged with the care of a young prince, or man of rank, forces a change of clothes and relative positions as a condition of drawing him up from a well into which the young noble had been let down by the legs (or of not drowning him in a river at which he was drinking), V, 44-7, 49, 54;
the same of a princess and her maid, 47.
Τὸ Στοίχημα, Romaic ballad, V, 21.
The Story of Conall Gulban, West Highland tale, III, 507.
Straparola, I, 401; II, 143; V, 46, 96.
Strawberry Castle, II, 118 f., 121, 286, 442, 447, 452; IV, 466 f.
Stripping of maid by pretended lover who has carried her off, I, 31-3, 39 f., 42 f., 50, 56 f., 59, 433, 486 b, 488; II, 496 b, 497; III, 496 f.; IV, 442.
Stuart.
See under Family Names.
Stumps, fighting on, after the legs had been shorn at the knee, and fighting after other mutilations, III, 306, 310, 313; IV, 502; V, 244, 298 a.
Sturlaugs saga, II, 35 n.
Stutely, Will, one of Robin Hood’s troop in later ballads, III, 135;
rescued by Robin Hood from hanging, 185.
Substitution of maid-servant (sister) for bride to conceal unchastity, I, 64-8, 70, 73; III, 497 b;
substitution of maid-servant (niece) for mistress in cases of wagers against the mistress’s virtue, V, 22-4, 27.
Subterfuges of woman questioned as to evidences of her misbehavior, V, 88-95, 303-4 (comic); II, 157 f., 164, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a (serious).
Südäi Märgän, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 486.
Suddene, kingdom of Murry, father of Horn, I, 188, 190.
Sulayman Bey and the Three Story-Tellers, V, 97.
Svarfdœlasaga, I, 96; II, 35 n.
Svend Bondes Spørgsmaal, V, 205.
The Swepstacke, The Sweepstakes, name of a ship, V, 133.
Swift, Tale of a Tub, II, 441.
Sword laid in bed between man and woman, II, 127, and n., 130, 135, 511; III, 509 a; V, 292 b;
reduced sportively to straw, II, 127 n.; III, 509 a; V, 292 b.
Sword, whetted on straw, grass, a stone, the ground, wiped or dried on sleeve, grass, before using, II, 131, 139, 159, 161 f., 166, 169, 185, 243 f., 249, 256, 261, 266, 273, 305 f., 380, 390, 393, 396, 483, 492; IV, 491; V, 37, 226 f., 235.
Sword and ring laid before maid ‘to stick him wi the brand or wed him wi the ring,’ II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.
Swords, Adelring, Sudevind, and others of superexcellent quality, II, 34, 35, and n., 50.
Swords, two in a scabbard, II, 133, 135, 245, 251, 256, 258; IV, 477.
Sworn brethren, IV, 146 f.
Syntipas, V, 13 f.
Table, drawing a, explained, V, 304 a.
Table jumped, kicked or thrown over, under the effect of exciting events or information, table furniture broken to flinders or hurled into fire, etc., I, 65, 217, 457 n., 465, 472, 475 f., 481, 502 a, b; II, 35, 94, 127 f., 128 n., 132, 205, 271, 273, 312 f., 511 b; III, 509 a; IV, 316, 345, 462, 508; V, 219, 271, 287 b, 292 b.
In Slavic ballads, bride jumps over four tables (and knocks over a fifth); husband, hearing news, jumps nine, I, 502 b; II, 511 b; III, 509 a;
person jumps seven and touches the eighth, V, 287 b.
Tales cited without title:—
Albanian, V, 47.
Armenian (==King John and Bishop), IV, 459 b;
tale or ballad, I, 490 a.
Breton, III, 504 a, 506 b, 507 a.
Esthonian, I, 308.
Gypsy (Transylvanian, etc.), IV, 459 b; V, 60.
Lithuanian, II, 499 b, 511 a.
Magyar, IV, 459 b; V, 60, 216 a.
Romaic, I, 97, 337, 401, 437, 461 n.; II, 127, 511 a; V, 39.
Roumanian, I, 85, 401.
Slavic, I, 124 f., 308, 401 f., 417, 484 a, 499 b, 507, 513 a; III, 52 n., 513 b; IV, 439 b, 440 b, 459 b; V, 2 f., 6, 46 f., 60, 74, 107, 241, 279.
Talismans:
ring with stone which by change of color, or breaking, signifies unfaithfulness of giver, I, 192, 201-7; II, 318 f.; V, 210 f.;
by rusting or dimming shows that giver is dead, I, 201;
ring which protects the wearer from all bodily harm, assures superiority in fight, doubles strength, keeps from sickness and captivity, I, 189, 190 f., 201 n.; V, 287 b;
gold-embroidered handkerchief, gold melting shows that giver is dead, I, 201;
ring, sword, chain, which will stanch blood or prevent blood from being drawn, II, 61, 318 f.; V, 183 f.;
the protective power of the ring conditional upon the wearer when in danger thinking of his leman, I, 189;
with his keeping faith, 190 f.
Talking Bird, Singing Tree, and Yellow Water, Arabian tale, I, 311.
The Talking Dish, Chinese drama, I, 126.
Tam o Lin, Tom a Lin, Tammy Linn, etc., popular verses about, I, 340; III, 505 b.
Tarlton’s Jests, IV, 495 a.
Tarn Wadling.
See Tearne Wadling.
Tasks and problems, difficult or impossible, I, 7-13, 15-20, 418, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f.; V, 205 f.;
impossible tasks propounded by man as condition of love or marriage, offset by others preliminary, equally difficult, proposed by woman, I, 7 f., 15-19, 484 f.; II, 495 f.; III, 496 a; IV, 439 f.; V, 205 f., 284 (an Elphin knight gives the tasks, I, 15-17;
an auld man, 18 f. (I), who represents the devil;
a dead lover, IV, 439 f., and the devil expressly, V, 283;
the maid would have been carried off had she failed). Similar requisitions, not conditional to marriage, met in the same way, I, 10, 13;
in Babylonian Talmud, V, 284;
similar performances, ostensibly undertaken, to show the absurdity of a demand, I, 10, 11;
an assertion offset by another of the same extravagance, 13;
tasks in which no one of the only possible procedures is allowed, I, 8 f., 418;
problems ingeniously solved, I, 12 f.;
tasks propounded by one king to another, king rescued from attack or from a forfeit by the sagacity of his minister or minister’s daughter, I, 11 f.;
wife won by doing riddling tasks, Siberian-Turkish tale, I, 418;
dead lover propounds tasks to his true-love; if she had not “answered” well she must have gone away with him, IV, 439 f.
Taubenliebe, Albanian tale, I, 338.
Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12, 269; V, 13.
Tay, water of, I, 127, 129; II, 21, 24, 96, 314, 462, 465, 471; III, 271; IV, 98, 100, 143 f., 193.
Tchînavar, the bridge, II, 235.
Tearne Wadling, I, 294.
Tears destroy the peace of the dead, II, 228, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513 b; IV, 474 b; V, 62, 294.
Tegau Eurvron, wife of Caradawc Vreichvras, I, 265.
Teind (teene), tribute: teind taken of fairies by the fiend at stated periods, I, 328, 339, 342, 344-6, 350, 353; III, 505 a; IV, 456, 458; V, 215 b.
Telfer, Jamie, ballad, IV, 4 ff.
Tell, William, III, 16 f., 18 n.; IV, 496 b;
his apple-shot, III, 13, 21 n.;
his name, 19 n., 21 n.
Tennis-balls in the ballad of Henry V, authorities, III, 321 f.;
parallel in Pseudo-Callisthenes, 322.
Testament, oral, or last wishes, of dying person, will good things to friends and ill things to the author of death, I, 143-50, 153-6, 158-60, 162 f., 166, 496-501; II, 498 b; III, 499; IV, 449; V, 208 f.;
without animosity to author of death, I, 144, 156;
other testaments, where there is no occasion for animosity, I, 144, 496 b; V, 291 b;
parodies of these testaments, I, 144 b; III, 499 b; V, 208 b, 286;
bequest of sorrow to wife and children and a curse to mother by a man who had been instigated by her to kill brother or father, I, 169 f.
Testament of fox, robin, ass, dog, etc., I, 144 b; V, 208 b, 286.
Tests (molten lead or gold, burning with red-hot iron, cutting off little finger, etc.) to determine the reality of a woman’s apparent death, II, 359, 361, 364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, 3, 6;
other tests, III, 517 b.
See Chastity.
Thales solves riddles, I, 13 n.
Thedel von Walmoden, poem and tale, I, 199 n.
Ther wer three ravns, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.
Thetis, Proteus and Nereus made submissive by maintaining a firm hold through their various transformations, I, 337, 338 n.
Thévenot, I, 240.
Thirty pieces for which Jesus was sold, legends concerning, I, 243 f.;
history of, before birth of Jesus, 243.
Þiðriks saga, I, 49, 94 n.; II, 35 n., 41; III, 16; V, 243 b.
Thom of Lyn, a dance, I, 336.
Thomas, Gospel of, II, 7.
Thomas Cantipratensis, Bonum Universale, II, 235, 513 a.
Thomas of Erceldoune, Thomas the Rhymer, I, 317-19, 321 f., 335, 340;
his prophecies, 317;
Thomas of Erceldoune and Ogier le Danois, 319, and n., 320 n., 340; V, 290 a.
Thor, I, 283 n., 419;
Thor’s Hammer, I, 298.
Thor, Tor, Herr, see Tor.
Thorkill, his voyage, and visit to Guthmund, I, 323; II, 14;
his ships stopped till three men are delivered to expiate an offence committed, II, 14 f.
Das Thränenkrüglein, tale, II, 512.
Three cries allowed a maid about to be murdered, I, 32, 37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, 207, 285 a.
Three horses, successively ridden in an emergency, of which the first two give out, the third holds out, II, 116 f., 120 f., 309 n., 313; V, 228, 262 (all three burst, II, 212).
Three hundred and sixty-five children at one birth, as punishment for slandering a woman who had borne twins, II, 67 f., n.; IV, 463 b.
The Three Ladies of Leithan Ha’, ballad of Cunningham, I, 142.
The Three Questions, a drollery, I, 418.
Þrymskviða, I, 298.
Thurston, Irish king, takes Horn into his service, offers Horn Reynild, his daughter, I, 189.
Thyme song, V, 258.
Tibullus, II, 236 n.
Time, illusion as to duration of, I, 321, and n., 328; V, 290 a.
Tiran le Blanc, romance, I, 308.
Titurel, Der jüngere, I, 98, 267.
Der todte Schuldner, tale, III, 501.
Das Todtebeindli, tale, I, 125.
Toilets, women’s, in ballads, I, 31, 54, and n.; II, 183-6, 188-91; IV, 312 f., 316 f.; V, 301 b.
Tokens sent a lady to legitimate a messenger:
mantle and ring, II, 265;
glove and ring, 266;
gloves, ring, mantle, 267;
mantle, sark of silk (sleeve sewed by her), 268 f.;
mantle, smock (sleeve sewed by her), 270;
mantle, silken sark (sleeve sewed by her), 272;
sark, shirt, shift of silk, (with sewing by her), 379, 384 f., 389, 391, 395; IV, 488 f.;
shirt from lady to man, II, 394; IV, 491.
As to shirts as tokens, see V, 284.
Tokens to identify man claiming to be husband or lover, or woman claiming to be true-love, II, 215 f., 218-20, 222-5; III, 510 f.; IV, 473; V, 225;
demanded by mother of woman professing to be her daughter, V, 65 n.
Tokens sent keeper of a prisoner as warrants of king’s authority, king’s comb, queen’s knife, III, 452 (IV, 515);
king’s glove, with his hand-writing, III, 455; V, 300.
Toko’s apple-shot, III, 16.
Tollet’s painted window, III, 45.
Tom Hickathrift, V, 226.
To-names among the border clansmen, III, 461 n.
Top-castles in ships, III, 337 n., 340, 344, 349; IV, 504.
Tor, Thor, representative of Horn in a Danish ballad, I, 193;
rival, 193 f.
Torello, Messer, in Boccaccio’s tale, I, 197 f., 459.
Torrent of Portugal, romance, II, 510 b; V, 297 b.
La Tourandot, play by Carlo Gozzi, I, 417.
Towie, Castle or House, burning of, III, 424 f., 427 f.
T. R., signature of No 122, B a, III, 116;
of two copies of No 133, III, 156;
of No 169, B a, III, 371 (the last an absurd pretension).
Transformations:
maid transforms herself (or threatens to transform herself) into various shapes to escape the pursuit of a lover, who matches her at every step and finally prevails, I, 399-401, 402 f.; II, 506 b; III, 506 b; IV, 459 b; V, 216 a, 290 f.;
youth and maid (youth) pursued by sorcerer transform themselves variously, and finally escape apprehension, I, 401 b; III, 506 f.; IV, 459 b;
apprentice to a sorcerer, or fiend, pursued by his master, transforms himself variously and at last takes on a stronger shape and destroys his adversary, I, 401 f.; III, 507 a; IV, 459 b; V, 290 f.
Transformations, after extraordinary concessions, of hideous woman, into a beautiful lady, I, 289-93, 295-9, 507 a; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b;
of ugly old man to beautiful youth, V, 213.
Transformations of step-children (generally to hideous and formidable shapes, to tree, serpent, fish, wolf) by malicious stepmother, I, 178, 290-3, 296 f., 306 f., 309 f., 312 f., 315 f.; II, 503-5; V, 214 f.;
linden-worm, snake, admitted to maid’s bed turns into a king’s son, I, 298; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a;
other similar cases, V, 289 b;
witch transforms young man who refuses to be her leman into an ugly worm, I, 315.