Volume 5 / Part 3 — INDEX OF MATTERS AND LITERATURE

Aaltrje, Ethel, Adeline, Dutch representative of Fair Annie, II, 66.

Abortion sought by eating of rose, I, 341, 343 f., 354;

savin tree (abbey tree, deceivin tree), III, 387, 393, 396; IV, 510;

sycamore tree, IV, 511;

pile o the gravil, I, 350;

an herb, leaf from the tree, flower, I, 349, 352; III, 386; IV, 456.

Aboulcassem, tale of, I, 282.

Aboulfaouaris, tale of, II, 499.

Aboyne, Earl of, ballad, IV, 311 ff.; V, 270 f., 301.

Acta Sanctorum, I, 239, and n.; II, 510 a; III, 237 n., 241 f.

Adam Bell maintained to be an historical or mythical personage, III, 21 f.

Addison on Chevy Chace; his interest in traditional songs and tales, III, 305, and n., 306.

Adelheid, Dutch and German representative of Fair Annie, II, 66 f.

Adland, King, father of lady sought in marriage by King Estmere, II, 52 f.

Adler, II, 50-55;

king, 50, and Estmere his messenger;

brother of King Estmere, 51-55, and his nuncio.

Adrian and Ritheus, I, 13 n.

L’Adroite Princesse, imitation of Basile, III, 4, I, 269.

Adultery, noble lady accused of, vindicated by champion or by ordeal, II, 34-48, 510 b; III, 508 a.

Les Adventures d’Abdalla fils d’Hanif, etc., I, 392.

Adventures of the Cauzee (J. Scotts’s Arabian Nights), II, 43 n.

Æsop, Life of, I, 12, 13, and n.;

a clever fence of his, 13.

Af biskupi ok puka, Icelandic legend of Saint Andrew, I, 484 b.

Af Fru Olif ok Landres, Karlamagnus Saga, II, 40.

Af klerk ok gyðingum, legend, III, 240.

Afezzell, Histoire du devin, I, 489 a.

Agilulf, Decameron, III, 2, II, 137 a, 511 b.

Agolafre, V, 244 b.

Aiol et Mirabel, III, 508 a.

Air, importance of, for producing the proper effect of a ballad, II, 204 a.

Airlie, House of, plundered, ballad, IV, 54 ff.

Ajax, flower from his blood, I, 99.

Aladdin, story of, I, 323 n.; II, 127.

Alboazar, V, 4 f.

Alcon, the archer, III, 20.

Aldora, V, 4 f.

Alexander, romances of, III, 322 n.; V, 226 a, 297.

Alexander of Metz, poem and tale, I, 268, 459.

Alfonsus of Lincoln, III, 239.

Áli, IV, 502 b.

Allan Water, a tune, Allan Water, or, My love Annie’s very bonny, a song, Allan Water, or, a Lover in Captivity, a song, IV, 184.

Allen a Dale married to his true-love by Robin Hood in spite of the bishop, III, 173 f.

Alpthier, III, 498 a.

Álsól, transformed by step-mother, I, 306 f.

Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419.

Amadas et Ydoine, romance, III, 508.

Amadis of Gaul, I, 267, 308 (Amadis d’Astra); III, 508 b.

Amasis, tasks given to and by, propounds riddles, I, 13, and n.

Amis and Amiloun, Amis e Amiloun, II, 127, 511 b; III, 508 b.

Âmîs and the Bishop, in Pfaffe Âmîs, I, 406.

Ancrum Muir, Battle of, == Lilliard’s Edge, III, 306.

Andrius, the monk, I, 505 b.

L’Andromède et les démons, Lesbian tale, V, 294 a.

Annals of Burton, II, 236 f.;

of Waverley, II, 235;

of Winchester, II, 38 n.

Antonius Liberalis (Metamorphoses of Nicander), I, 84.

Anvár-i Suhailé, tale in, V, 14.

Apollodorus, I, 337, 338 n.

Apollonius of Tyana, I, 485 a.

Apollonius of Tyre, I, 1, 416; IV, 402 b; V, 245.

Apologie pour Hérodote, story in V, 122.

Appetite, monstrous and revolting, of bewitched women, I, 290, 298 f., 301.

Apple, gold, thrown into woman’s lap controls her will, I, 364.

Apple-tree, danger from fairies of sleeping under, I, 340, 350; IV, 455 f.

See I, 319 b, and Ympe Tree.

Apuleius, Metamorphoses, I, 84 f.

Arabian Nights, Thousand and One Nights, Tausend und eine Nacht, I, 11 n., 12 f., 269, 323 n., 402; II, 43 n., 127, 511 b; V, 13.

Ardai Viraf, Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 236, 506 f., 513 a.

Argyll. See under Family Names.

Arioald, II, 39.

Arm-ring, bribing to secrecy with, II, 51.

Arms, long arms seemingly regarded as a beauty, II, 168; IV, 415; V, 160 f., 164. (Cf. Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, v. 9476, Tyrwhitt.)

Armstrong, John (Gilnockie), said to have molested no Scotsman, but to have levied tribute on the English from the border to Newcastle, III, 364;

makes King James great offers for his life, 365, 370;

appears to have been apprehended by unfair dealing, 365 f.;

hanged, with all his men, 365;

is invited by the king to visit him, and goes with eight score men gallantly attired, 368 f.;

the king thinks him a king, as well as he, 369 f.;

refused pardon, comes near to killing the king, but is finally slain, with all his company, 368 f.

Armstrong, William of Kinmouth (Kinmont Willie), made prisoner by the English in violation of truce, taken by force from Carlisle castle by Sir Walter Scott, laird of Buccleuch, III, 469-74;

his extraordinary and proverbial rapacity, 471.

Armstrongs, their strength, III, 363;

ravage both the English and the Scottish border, 364 a.

See under Family Names.

Arngosk, Lady of, ballad, IV, 241 ff.

Arrow, bearing, III, 29, 202, 341;

broad, III, 29, 160, 176, 199, 202, 341; IV, 505 f.;

letter sent on an arrow-head, III, 223 f., 231; V, 241 a;

arrow shot to determine place for grave, I, 185 (?); III, 106;

to show where a wife is to be sought, II, 499.

Arthour and Merlin, romance of, IV, 479 b.

Arthur, King, I, 257-67, 271-3, 283-91, 289-91, 293-6;

his custom of not dining until he had had or heard of an adventure, I, 257, 263; III, 51, and n.

So Robin Hood, III, 51.

Arthur a Bland, tanner of Nottingham, kinsman of Little John, III, 137;

the tune, 133, and n.

Arthur a Bradley, a ballad, III, 215, 217.

Arthur’s seat shall be my bed, song, IV, 105.

Artificial curiosities, wand with three singing living lavrocks sitting thereon, etc., I, 201 f., 205, 503; III, 501 b; IV, 450 b.

Artiga, V, 4 f.

Atamulc, story of, V, 13.

Athelbrus, steward of King Ailmar, and tutor of Horn and his comrades, I, 188 f.

Atherly. See John of Atherly.

Athulf, Horn’s faithful friend, I, 188, 190.

Les Aubrays, Lizandré, Breton knight, kills a Moor by receiving him on the point of his sword as the Moor leaps in the air, II, 378; III, 276.

Audam and Doorkhaunee, Afghan poem, I, 98.

Augur (wimble) bore, lady first seen, or courted, through

an, I, 202, B, 205, F, 206, H;

first and only sight, I, 255.

Auld Man == Devil, I, 18, I.

Auld Robin Gray, a play, V, 88.

Die Ausgleichung, I, 265.

Austerities vowed by actors in tragic stories, as tributes of grief, penances, etc., II, 156 f., 159, 162 f., 165 f., 175, 177, 179, 258, 318 f.; IV, 97, 360, 433; V, 223 a.

Austrríki, I, 460 n.

The Avowynge of King Arthur, metrical romance, I, 209.

Ayrer’s plays, V, 24 f., 97.

Baba-Yaga, I, 484 a.

Baffling malice with ready answers, I, 20-22, 485; III, 496; IV, 440.

Bahome, Bee Hom, II, 318 f.

Baillie Lunnain, Gaelic tale, I, 191 n.

Balcanqual, II, 337.

Balewise, bæliwis, I, 67 n.

Balfour, John, called Burly, IV, 106 f.

Bandello, Novelle, I, 269; II, 42; III, 258; V, 23 n.

Banier, Sir (==Sir Beduer, Bedewere?), I, 295.

La Barbe Bleue, I, 47.

Barberine, A. de Musset, I, 269.

Y Bardd Glas Keraint, II, 136, 511.

Der Bärenhäuter, tale, I, 198.

Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II, 244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.

Barnsdale, III, 50 f.

Barrel spiked, punishment of rolling or dragging in, II, 343; IV, 30 n., 32; V, 48.

Barton, Sir Andrew, maintained by the English to be a pirate, III, 335 f., 339, 345, 352; IV, 503;

his dangerous “beams,” III, 337, and n., 338, 340 f., 344 f., 349; IV, 504 f.;

his ship brass within and steel without, III, 340, 344, 349; IV, 504;

and magnificently ornamented, III, 340, 342;

boasts that he once salted thirty heads of the Portuguese, and sent them home to eat with bread, IV, 505;

300 crowns (500 angels) tied about his middle, when his body is thrown overboard, to secure burial, III, 342; IV, 506.

Basile, Il Pentamerone, I, 269, 461 n.; II, 127; V, 48.

Bastars de Bullion, Li, romance, V, 6.

Bathing for recovering human shape, I, 308, 338, and n.; II, 505; III, 505; V, 39 f.

The Battle of Harlaw, of Hara Law, a tune; The Battle of Hardlaw, a pibroch, III, 318. See Harlaw.

Beating of daughters, I, 192; II, 435; V, 237 a.

Beaumont and Fletcher, Knight of the Burning Pestle, I, 105; II, 199, 243, 457 n.; V, 201 f.;

The Spanish Curate, I, 239 n.;

Monsieur Thomas, II, 10, 243; III, 294, 331;

Bonduca, II, 243; V, 202;

The Pilgrim, II, 457;

The Two Noble Kinsmen, II, 506 b; V, 133, 202;

Philaster, III, 129.

Beauty and the Beast, La Belle et la Bête, tale, I, 308, 313 f.

Becket, Gilbert, romantic story of, I, 457 f.

Becket, Thomas, stands by his votaries, I, 505 a.

Beeldwit, I, 67.

Beggar (palmer), Hind Horn changes clothes with, I, 189, 191 f., 202-7;

Robin Hood, III, 178-82, 184;

Little John, III, 188;

Wallace, III, 271, 273;

other disguises as beggar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f.;

beggar who receives girl’s favors turns out to be a person of high degree, V, 109 ff., 116 ff., 305 a.

The Beggar and the Five Muffins, Eastern story, V, 281.

Beggar and Robin Hood, III, 156, 159;

beggar (beggars) and Little John, III, 188 f.

Beggar’s dress and equipment, II, 436 f. (61, 78).

Die beiden Fürsten, Turkish tale, I, 10.

Beket. See Becket.

Le Bel Inconnu, Libeaus Desconeus, I, 308; II, 51, 510 b.

Bele Ydoine, romance, IV, 482 a.

Belewitte, I, 67.

La Belle et la Bête, I, 308 n., 313 f.

Bellerophon’s sons and Sarpedon, III, 20.

Bells, numerous, on horses, I, 320 n.; V, 290 a;

on every lock of horse’s mane, I, 323; II, 189, 191, 344; IV, 410, 413;

mane and tail, II, 194;

twenty-four on horse’s mane, II, 183, 185;

hung at every corner of a ship, IV, 462 a;

bell sewed to every stitch of a cap for a (supposed) dead girl, III, 364; IV, 483;

bells ring of themselves, I, 173, 231; III, 235, 244, 519 f.;

bells rung backward as an alarm, III, 26;

girl sold for a new church-bell, I, 91 f.

Belly-blind. See Billie Blind.

Beloe’s Oriental Apologues, V, 97.

Benbow, Admiral, V, 147.

Benediction in church, merman’s (human) wife must not stay till, or expose herself to, I, 366;

nix flies from, ib., n.

Bengwill, Benwall, Brangwill, Lord, I, 62, 76, 78; II, 253.

Béowulf, I, 50, 54 n.; II, 56.

Der Berghüter und seine kluge Tochter, Transylvanian tale, I, 8.

Berkeley, Witch of, V, 298 a.

Bernabò Visconti and the Abbot, tale of Sacchetti, I, 406.

Bernard, Lord. See Barnard.

Bernard de Brusban, of the twelve peers, I, 278.

Bernardo del Carpio, III, 367.

Bertha im Wald, children’s game, I, 33 n.

Berthold von Neuhaus, I, 198.

Bertrand, Nicolas, I, 237 f.

Bessy Bell, nursery song, IV, 75;

Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, ballad, 75 ff.

Der betrogene Betrüger, tale, I, 47.

Bewick and Graham, ballad, IV, 144 ff.

Bewsey, a poem, III, 329.

Bias extricates himself from tasks, I, 13, and n.

The Bible, I, 51 f., 245, 271, 282 n., 404, and n.; II, 14 n.

Bier half gold, half silver, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; V, 224;

with ae stamp o the melten goud, another o silver clear, IV, 471.

Bil-eygr, böl-eygr, appellatives of Odin, I, 67.

Billie (Bellie) Blind (Blin), I, 63, 67, 73, 86, 466 f.; II, 458, 464, 470, 472; IV, 494; V, 239.

Bilvís, bilwiz, I, 67; V, 285 b.

Binyan’s Bay, I, 24, 61 b.

Birds:

bird takes a message or carries a letter, II, 113 n., 356-60, 362 f., 365 f.; III, 4, 8; IV, 412, 482, 484 f.; V, 234;

bird (parrot, pyet, popinjay) comments on a murder it has witnessed, murderess tries in vain to entrap him, II, 144, 146-52, 154;

testifies to the murder, 153, 155;

warns maid of danger, I, 31-5, 37; II, 496 f.; IV, 441; V, 285;

warns lover of mishap, II, 206 n.;

warns mother that her son tarries long, III, 10;

(nightingale, lark) reveals maid’s death (being really the soul of the dead), I, 180, 181;

speaks to encourage Fair Ellen, I, 90, 92, 95; V, 221;

bird informs knight of wife’s infidelity, II, 260;

bribes or promises to birds for services, 1, 57-60; II, 144, 146 f., 149-52, 154, 359; IV, 389 f., 416;

partridge betrays the hiding-place of the Virgin, II, 8;

quail plays partridge’s part, swallow befriends the Virgin, II, 509 f.;

birds call out in human voice at seeing a living woman riding behind a dead man, V, 65;

lover in bird-shape (or coat), V, 39-42.

Birth arrested, I, 82-87, 489; III, 497. See Childbirth.

Bitte mette, Danish tale, I, 489 a.

Björner’s Kämpadater, I, 50, 259; II, 57 n.

The Black Bull of Norroway, tale, V, 201.

Blak, the horse, I, 96.

Blind Harry’s Wallace, III, 109, 191, 265, 266.

Blind the Bad, Blindr inn bölvísi, I, 67, 95.

Blinde belien, I, 67.

Blindr inn bölvísi, I, 67, 95.

Blonde of Oxford and Jehan of Dammartin (Jehan et Blonde), romance, I, 191 n.; V, 287 b.

Blood:

blood of children or virgins reputed a cure for leprosy, I, 47, 50 n.; IV, 441 b; V, 285;

blood of Christians in Hebrew rites, III, 240-3; IV, 497 a;

blood, drinking to dissolve enchantment, I, 337, and n.;

blood, emission of, from dead body on being touched or approached by the murderer, II, 143, 146, 148, 153; IV, 468 a.

Blood stanched with a charm, II, 441, 445, 450.

Blood-relations refuse to ransom a captive woman, a woman about to be hanged; done by husband or lover, II, 346-9, 350-3; III, 516; IV, 481 f.; V, 231-4, 296;

the same story, with parts shifted, of a man ransomed by his mistress, II, 349 f.; III, 516; IV, 481; V, 233 f., 296;

Finnish and Esthonian versions, V, 231-3.

Blow thy horne, hunter, fragment of a song, I, 209; IV, 451.

Blue, fortunate in love matters, II, 182, 512 a;

symbolic of good faith, thy coat is blue, thou hast been true, III, 479 (6), 481 (6).

Bluebeard, La Barbe Bleue, I, 47, 49 n., 50 n., 54.

Boar, terrible, in romantic tales, I, 209-14; II, 500 a.

Bocca della verità, I, 270 n.

Boccaccio, Decamerone, I, 197 f., 457 n.; II, 128, 137, 156 n.; III, 258; V, 23 nn., 29, 30, and n., 31, and n., 32, and n., 33, 303 a.

Bodman, I, 198.

Boiling to death, in a caldron, molten lead, in oil, or throwing into boiling oil, II, 321 n., 327; IV, 480 a; V, 53, 56, 230, 281.

Böl-eygr, I, 67.

Bölverkr (Odin), I, 67.

Bölvís, I, 67. See Blindr.

Bone Florence of Rome, Le, romance, III, 235.

Bonny Lass o Livingston, song, IV, 232 n.

Books in church read without man’s tongue, III, 244.

Boon of being allowed to fight at odds rather than be judicially executed (cf. No 141) in South Slavic songs, IV, 497 a.

Boots pulled off half-way, to embarrass a gallant, II, 482; IV, 495 a.

Borde, Andrew, I, 237 n., 238.

Bore, Sir (==Sir Bors?), I, 293, 295.

Bosworth Field, a history in ballad verse, III, 307, 331 f., 354 n.

Bothwell, Earl, ballad, III, 399 ff.

Bothwell Bridge, Battle of, ballad on, IV, 108 ff.

Bow, bent before swimming, II, 114, 116 f., 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 257, 272, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398;

slacked to swim, II, 250;

slacked to run, II, 116 f.; IV, 229;

bent to leap wall, II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV, 229.

Bow shots:

six score paces, to cleave apple on boy’s head, III, 17, 29;

twenty score paces to split a rod, III, 29;

three score rood (330 yards), III, 93;

a hundred rod, III, 176;

fifteen score (300 yards), III, 201, 203;

(not to be taken seriously) a mile, or half a mile and more, and through an armed man at the end, III, 54;

two north-country miles and an inch, III, 215.

Bower, Scotichronicon, III, 41, 43, 96, 266, 282, and n., 292, and n., 305, 316, 476 nn.

The Boy and the Mantle, ballad, I, 257 ff., etc.;

story in Welsh, I, 265 nn.

Boy baffles carlin by ready answers, I, 21.

Brackleys, several, murdered, IV, 80-83, 522;

Baron of Brackley, ballad, 79 ff.

Brags, gabs, vows, I, 277 f., 281-3, 285; II, 502.

Brand and ring, choice given to maid, signifying the death of violator or marriage with him, II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.

Brand, Right-hitting, III, 43 n.; V, 297 a.

Brandimarte, in Orlando Innamorato, I, 308.

Brangwain, Isold’s maid, I, 67.

Bread. See Communion bread.

Bredbeddle, one of Arthur’s knights, I, 280.

Bremor, king of Spain, demands the hand of King Adland’s daughter, II, 52-4.

Bride accidentally but fatally wounded by bridegroom’s sword while he is bringing her home (Graf Friedrich), I, 142 f.;

bride assigned by dying man to his brother, I, 376, 378, and n.;

she will not give her troth to two brothers, I, 376, 378, and n.;

bride, wife, whose bridegroom, husband, has died is put off with false explanations, I, 376-9, 381, 383-87;

bride carried off by lover on the day she was to wed a rival, IV, 218, 230; V, 260 f.

Bridegroom caressing bride while taking her home killed by her brother, I, 142;

bridegroom killed on his way to fetch the bride, I, 386;

bridegroom drowned on the way to his wedding, IV, 179-183, 189 f.; V, 257;

lover drowned on his way to visit his mistress, IV, 185.

Brome, brome on hill, song, I, 390.

The broom blooms bonny and says it is fair, I, 450.

The Broom of Cowden Knowes, O the broome, the bonny bonny broome, tune, IV, 192, 208.

Brother’s consent to a sister’s marriage, importance of obtaining, I, 142;

brother whose consent has not been asked kills his sister as she is riding to or from the wedding, I, 145-50;

brother flogs to death unmarried sister who has had a child, II, 102.

Brown, Andrew, his services to James VI, III, 442-6.

Brown bride despised for her complexion, II, 182-97;

brown girl rejected for this reason, V, 167 f.

See also I, 120, 133 (M 10), 135 (1).

Brown Robin, II, 305 f., 368, 371, 418.

Bruce, David. See David Bruce.

Die Bruck zu Karidol, I, 267, and n.

Buccleuch, Sir Walter Scott of, rescue of Kinmont Willie, III, 469 ff. See under Family Names.

Bulat and Ivan, tsar’s son, Russian tale, V, 46.

Bunion Bay, I, 24, 57.

Burden, burden-stem, I, 7 n., 484 a; II, 204 n.

Burial, gold bound round bodies thrown into the water, to secure, II, 14; III, 342; IV, 502 b, 506 a; V, 245.

Buridan and the Queen of France, tale, IV, 502.

Burlow-beanie, a variety of Billy Blin (here a loathly fiend, with seven heads), I, 286 f.

Burnet, Burnett. See under Family Names.

Burning, penalty for incontinence (in Danish ballads, for incest), II, 41, 43 f., 46-8, 113-125; III, 508 b; V, 292 b.

Burns, Robert, author of Kellyburnbraes, V, 107;

his Hallowe’en, V, 286 a.

Butler, Sir John, his murder and the ballad thereon, III, 327 ff.

Buttons bursting, as a consequence of violent emotion, II, 186; IV, 101, 302;

waistcoat bursted, IV, 185;

stays, gown and all, IV, 320.

By Lands-dale, hey ho, song, III, 54.

Byliny, Russian popular epics, I, 200 (II, 499 f.); II, 15, and n., 502; III, 122, 501 b; IV, 463, 497 a, 499 a; V, 2;

Bulgarian, IV, 463.

Byron, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage, III, 91; IV, 36.

Caberstaing, Guillems de, story of, V, 33.

Cæsarian operation, three and five wives die successively thereof, II, 309 f.;

six sisters (and the seventh doomed), 311-16, V, 227-9;

in the case of Queen Jane, III, 373-6; V, 245 f.;

in Danish ballad, I, 83.

Cæsarins Heisterbacensis, Dialogus Miraculorum, I, 197, 237.

Calaf, Prince, Persian story, I, 417.

Calender, tale of the Second, I, 402.

Campbell. See under Family Names.

Campbell, Bonny James, ballad, IV, 142.

La caña del riu de arenas, Catalan story, I, 125.

Cane (walking rod), ridiculously introduced. See the commonplace of mantle and cane (under Commonplaces); also, IV, 190, 421; V, 16 f.

Car, Ker, Captain, III, 424-7, 430-2.

Caradawc, I, 265; V, 289 a. See Carados.

Carados (Briebras, Brisié Bras), I, 258, 261 n., 263-5;

Caradawc Vreichvras, 265;

variations of the name Carados, I, 264 n.; V, 289 a.

Carduino (Le Bel Inconnu), Italian romance, I, 308.

Carevič i ego Sluga, The Prince and his Servant, Russian tale, V, 281.

Carl Blind, surnamed Bavís, I, 67, 95.

Carl Hood, old, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.

Carl of Carlile, rhymed tale, I, 290 n., 301 n., 316; V, 289 a.

Caskets, riddle of the three, I, 13.

Cassilis. See under Family Names.

Catharine I., Empress of Russia, III, 383.

Cawfield, Archie of, ballad, III, 484 ff.

Ce qui plaît aux Dames, Voltaire’s tale, I, 292.

The Ceabharnach, West Highland tale, III, 507.

Le Centi Novelle Antiche, V, 34.

Chains of gold, servants in waiting wear, I, 410.

Chambers, Robert, his contention that Lady Wardlaw was the author of Sir Patrick Spens and other ballads, II, 20 n.

Champion, diminutive, successful against huge and dangerous antagonist in judicial combat, II, 35-37, 37 n., 38, 39?, 43 n., 45 f. See Child-champion.

Change of clothes with beggar, palmer, I, 189, 191, 192, 202-207; III, 157, 179, 181 f., 184, 188, 271, 273 f.

Change of parts of man and woman in different versions of the same or a similar tale, I, 142, 187, 455, Nos 17, 53; 298; II, 236, 349, 426; IV, 186; V, 34, 296.

Charcoal-burners, III, 109; V, 6, 70 f., 75, and n.

Charlemagne’s Journey to Jerusalem, I, 274-9; III, 503 b.

Charles the Fifth (emperor) and a broom-maker; and a peasant; Belgian stories, V, 74.

Charles the Great and the charcoal-burner, rhymed tale, V, 70 f.

Charm:

knight obliges lady to go off with him by sticking a charm in her sleeve, I, 57;

charm or rune employed to induce sleep, I, 28, 48, 55, 391.

Charrois de Nymes, Li, chanson de geste, V, 298 a.

Charter of peace sought by outlaws, III, 27.

Chastity, or fidelity in love, tests of, I, 258-71, 507 a; II, 502; III, 503; IV, 454 a; V, 212 f., 289 a.

Arch, sword and garland in Amadis which test the fact and the measure of faithful love, I, 267.

(Talking) bed, blankets, pillows, rug, sheets, I, 64 f., 68, 70.

Bridge in the younger Titurel which cannot be passed by knight or lady faulty in matter of love, I, 267.

Brook which tests virginity, I, 269.

Chair, golden, in which none but a maid will sit till bidden, I, 72 f.;

can sit, 75.

Crown that exposes the infidelity of husbands, I, 266 f.

Cup from which no man or woman can drink who has been false to love, I, 264.

Cup of tears in Palmerin of England which tests the best knight and most faithful lover, I, 267.

Flowers (lotus, rose) or evergreen which keep fresh as long as wife or man and wife are faithful, I, 268.

Glove as test of virtue of man or woman, I, 266.

Harp which plays out of tune and breaks a string on the approach of a girl who has lost her maidenhead, I, 269.

Horn, or drinking-cup, probation of wife’s chastity by husband’s drinking from, I, 262-265, 273;

by wife’s, 264.

Jacinth will not be worn on the finger of an adulterer, V, 289 a.

Knife, cuckold’s knife cannot carve a boar’s head, I, 273.

Mantle, probation of wife’s fidelity by, I, 260-2, 265; V, 289 a;

this mantle preserved in some religious house or at Dover, I, 261 n.;

Karodes’s mantle which would fit no woman who was not willing that her husband should know both her act and her thought, I, 261.

Mirror which indicates the state of a woman’s fidelity, I, 269.

Nightingales, I, 64 f.

Olive refuses to grow, V, 289 a.

Picture (wax image) which by its color indicates the state of a wife’s fidelity, I, 269.

Ring which by its color indicates the condition of a woman’s fidelity, I, 269.

Robe which will fit only the pure woman, I, 262.

St. Wilfred’s needle, in Ripon Minster, V, 212 f.

Shirt (mantle) will not soil, spot, etc., as long as husband and wife, or wife, keeps faithful, I, 268.

Statue which shows whether a young woman is a maid, I, 269 f.

Stepping stone at bed-side, if stepped on, reveals unchastity, I, 66.

Stone, Aptor, red to the sight of clean man or woman, I, 269.

Stone which cannot be approached by one who is not as clean as when born, I, 269 n.

Sword, given by husband to wife, will not spot as long as he is faithful, I, 268.

Valley from which no false lover could escape till it had been entered by a lover perfect in all points as such, I, 267.

Clean maid can blow out a candle with one puff and light it with another, make a ball of water, or carry water in a sieve, I, 270.

Egyptian test (Herodotus), I, 271; V, 212 f.

Ordeals for chastity in Greek romances, brazier, cave, Stygian water, statue of Diana, I, 270.

Test of chastity of women in Numbers and Apocryphal gospels, I, 271.

Le Chat Botté, tale, I, 461 n.

Le Châtelain de Couci et la Dame de Faiel, romance, V, 33.

Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s Tale, I, 291 f.; II, 458;

Squire’s Tale, II, 51;

Prioress’s Tale, III, 239;

Clerk’s Tale, IV, 93 n.;

Sir Thopas, V, 287 b;

House of Fame, II, 136.

Cheese of Fyvie as a love potion, V, 305 b.

Chera, V, 13.

La Chevalerie Ogier de Danemarche, I, 239, and n.

Du Chevalier à la corbeille, fabliau, V, 121.

Le Chevalier au Cygne, romance, III, 515 b.

Le Chevalier à l’Espée, fabliau, III, 508 a.

Li Chevaliers as Deus Espees, romance, III, 505.

Du Chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, fabliau, III, 258.

Du Chevalier qui coit la masse, et Notre-Dame estoit pour lui au tournoiement, fabliau, III, 96 n.

Cheviot, Hunting of the, ballad, III, 303 ff.

Child, children, living, buried with dead mother, I, 180, 185; IV, 450 a (No 15);

child, young or unborn, speaks miraculously, to save life, vindicate the innocent, or to threaten revenge, III, 367, and nn.; IV, 507 a; V, 298 a.

Child Rowland and Burd Ellen, tale, I, 322; V, 201.

The Child of Wane, boy who protects school-girls from the assaults of his fellows, I, 308 n.

Childbirth, man’s help rejected and presence forbidden at, I, 179, 181-3, 245 f., 502 a; II, 98, 106 f., 414, 418, 422, 499; IV, 450 a, 464; V, 236;

pains of woman in childbirth repeated in the person of the man, II, 109; V, 292;

roddins (mountain-ash berries), juniper, desired by a woman at the point of childbirth, II, 408 f., 414;

first child, all the seven sisters of a family to die thereof, and six have so died, II, 311-16;

woman who has just borne a child to a lover, forced to marry another man, dances with her lover, and falls dead, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;

knots in woman’s clothes, or knots in the house, to be untied at childbirth, I, 85;

all locks to be shot during, II, 498;

mortal midwives and nurses desired by fairies, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b, 290 b;

woman gives birth to child (children) in stable, among the great horse feet, II, 85, 87, 89, 91 f., 94 f., 97-9; V, 221;

top of tree as place for labor, II, 109.

Childbirth obstructed by spells, I, 82-7; V, 285 b;

seven, nine days, three, seven, eight, twenty years, I, 82-85;

by the Fates and Ilithyia sitting down and folding their hands, by Lucina’s crossing knees and clasping hands over them, 84;

by throwing an enchanted pitcher into a draw-well, driving a nail into the roof-beam, placing folded hands between the knees, 85;

spells broken by persuading the operator that birth has taken place, I, 82-87.

See, further, I, 489; III, 497.

Child-champions, marvellous valor of, II, 37, 43 n., 45 f.; V, 292 a;

in Slavic tales, IV, 463;

cf. Growth, marvellous, etc.;

child (or dwarf) fights with huge or otherwise formidable adversary, II, 35-37, 43 n., 46.

Children born seven, eight, twenty years old (in consequence of obstructed parturition), I, 83-85.

Children of unwedded mother who has died in giving them birth buried alive with her by the father, I, 180.

Children’s game, ballads that have become, I, 33; II, 346.

Choice of sword or ring given maid, to stick him wi the brand or wed him wi the ring, II, 469; IV, 493; V, 28, 238.

Chrétien de Troyes, Cligés, III, 517 b; V, 2, 6;

Erec, III, 507 a;

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.

Christian IV of Denmark and a countryman, Danish tale, V, 74.

Chronicles cited as authority in ballads, III, 297, 333, 360.

Claverhouse, IV, 105-107, 109 f.;

accused of procuring Monmouth’s execution, 109 f.

Clergy accused of adultery with noble ladies, II, 34-36, 38.

The Clever Lass, Clever Wench, or Wise Daughter, I, 1, 8-13;

answers king’s puzzles, performs or offsets his tasks, 9;

answers questions or performs supposed impossibilities and is married for it, 9-11;

solves difficult questions and is elevated by king to the rank of his sister, 12.

See I, 409 n., 410 n., 484 a; II, 495 a; IV, 439 a; V, 284.

Clifton, assumed name (ineptly) for Scathlock, III, 201, 204.

Clitophon and Leucippe of Achilles Tatius, I, 270.

Clorinda, queen of the shepherds, espoused by Robin Hood, III, 217.

Clothes kilted (cut) a little above (below) the knee, hair braided (snooded, cut) a little above the brow, I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457.

Clyde Water, I, 389; II, 32, 88 f., 92, 94, 97, 144-7, 151-5, 461; IV, 188-90, 203; V, 208, 227, 237, 257.

Coach and three, I, 476 f.

Cober, Cabinet-prediger, I, 408.

Cock (capon) crows Christus natus est! I, 240-2, 505 f.; II, 501 b; IV, 451 f.;

miracle of the roasted cock reanimated, I, 233-242, 505; II, 8, 501 b; III, 502 f.; IV, 451 f.; V, 212 a, 288 a;

originally a feature in a legend of Judas, I, 239 f.

Cock, unfaithful or remiss, IV, 389 f., 416.

Cocks (crowing in the night), three, white, red, black, II, 228; V, 294 a;

two, red, grey, II, 229, 239;

milk-white, grey, II, 233; IV, 474;

white, red, III, 514.

Cognizances, parties in The Rose of England (a ballad of Henry VII’s winning the crown) mostly indicated by, III, 331.

Cokwolds Daunce, English comic tale, I, 264.

Commonplaces (recurrent passages):—

When bells were rung and mass was sung, And a’ men bound to bed, I, 68, 70, 73; II, 70, 73, 75 f., 79, 88, 90, 129 f., 132, 191, 300, 370, 470, 472; III, 244-7, 254; IV, 44 f., 237 f., 240, 283, 327, 432, 470; V, 171, 224, 239.

Lord William was buried in St. Mary’s Kirk, Lady Margret in Mary’s quire; Out o the lady’s grave grew a bonny red rose, And out o the knight’s a briar. And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near, etc., I, 101 f., 492; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 207 f., 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f.; III, 515; IV, 465; V, 224, 226, 262.

Where will I get a bonnie boy, Will win gold to his fee? O here am I, etc., II, 114, 116-19, 121, 123 f., 129, 131, 177, 186, 188, 190, 194, 212, 284-7, 311, 313, 316, 379, 394 f.; IV, 229, 235, 398, 466 f., 486, 488; V, 227.

O whan he came to broken briggs He bent his bow and swam, An whan he came to the green grass growin He slackd his shoone (set down his feet) and ran, II, 114 f., 117, 119, 121 f., 129, 177, 212, 247 f., 250, 253, 257, 272, 287, 311, 313, 379, 395; IV, 229, 398, 466 f., 477; V, 228, 262.

O whan he came to Lord William’s gates, He baed na to chap or ca, But set his bent bow till his breast, An lightly lap the wa; An, or the porter was at the gate, The boy was i the ha, II, 115-17, 129, 177, 272, 313; IV, 477; V, 228.

O is my biggins broken, boy? Or is my towers won? Or is my lady lighter yet Of a dear daughter or son? Your biggin is na broken, sir, but—, II, 115-19, 122 f., 131 f., 212, 248, 250, 253-5, 257; IV, 467, 477.

O saddle me the black, the black, Or saddle me the brown: O saddle me the swiftest steed That ever rade frae a town, II, 115-18, 120-13, 212, 216-18, 254, 312 f.; IV, 234, 236, 467, 477; V, 228, 262.

O where is a’ my merry young men Whom I gie meat and fee? I, 368 f., 396; II, 114, 123, 266-8, 403; III, 10; V, 35, 37, 292.

O is your saddle set awrye? Or rides your steed for you owre high? (saddle, bridle, stirrups, or something, not comfortable for maid who is riding), I, 66, and n., 68, 70, 72, 75-7, 79 f., 146, 179; IV, 450 a.

The first line that Sir Patrick red, A loud lauch lauched he; The next line that Sir Patrick red, The teir blinded his ee, II, 18 n., 20 f., 26 f., 29 f., 381 f., 385, 387, 389 f., 392 f., 395; IV, 117-121, 351-4, 413, 483, 486.

Gown narrow that was wont to be wide; coats short that were wont to be side, etc., II, 85, 122, 399, 401, 406 f., 409, 413; V, 36, 236.

I’m oer laigh to be your bride, And I winna be your whore, II, 181, 188; IV, 323, 325, 327, 330-32; V, 272.

Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, etc., I, 341, 343 f., 369; II, 86, 229, 417, 420, 423; IV, 457; V, 202 a.

(Pretence that a maid is trespassing in a wood.) She had na pu’d a double rose, A rose but only twa, Till up there started young Tam Lin, Says, Lady, thou’s pu nae mae, I, 41, 341, 343, 345 f., 349, 360, and n., 367, 369, 450-53; III, 504; IV, 456 f.

He took her by the milk-white hand, And by the grass-green sleeve, etc., I, 346, 349, 357 b, 387, 452 f.; II, 465, 468, 475; IV, 193, 195-200, 203, 205 f., 456; V, 239. Cf. IV, 219-22, 225-7, 229.

O syne ye’ve got your will of me, Your will o me ye’ve taen, ‘T is all I ask of you, kind sir, Is to tell me your name. Sometimes they call me Jack, he said, etc., I, 346, 444, 446, 450 f.; II, 458, and n., 459 f., 462, 465, 468, 471, 473-5, 478 f.; IV, 196, 200; V, 153-6, 237, 239.

(Dower despised.) I’m seeking nane o your gold, he says, Nor of your silver clear, I only seek your daughter fair, etc., II, 380, 382 f., 385 f., 388, 390 f., 393 f., 396, 400 f., 403-5; IV, 381 f., 399, 413 f., 487; V, 184, 276.

Lord Wayets lay over his castle-wa, Beheld baith dale and down, And he beheld, etc., I, 183; II, 131, 175, 257, 343 f.; IV, 235, 279, 403 f., 408, 433; V, 277 f.

Hold your tongue, my daughter dear, And ye’ll lat a’ your mourning be; I’ll wed you to a higher match, etc., II, 163, 166; IV, 96-103, 166-72, 174 f., 277, 279.

If this be true, a reward; if a lie, hanging, II, 244 f., 247-9, 251, 253-5, 257; III, 299; cf. II, 114.

Ffor because thou minged not Christ before, Thee lesse me dreadeth thee, II, 59, 62; III, 422.

Sheet (sark, smock) for the dead, one half cambric, the other needlework (beaten gold and needlework; silk and cambric), bier one half gold, the other silver, I, 506; II, 358 f., 362, 366; IV, 471 (IV, 485, bier lacking; V, 224, sheet or sark lacking).

Horse: Wi siller he is shod before, Wi burning gowd behind, I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224.

The day ye deal at Annie’s burial The bread but and the wine; Before the morn at twall o’clock They’ll deal the same at mine, II, 190 f., 193, 195, 201, 203, 208, 211 f., 217, 219, 295; IV, 236, 465, 471; V, 224, 262.

It’s kiss will I yer cheek, Annie And kiss will I your chin, etc., II, 191, 212, 217, 219, 221 f., 269, 273; IV, 236 f., 474.

She’s put it to her fause, fause cheek, But an her fause, fause chin, She’s put it to her fause, fause lips, But never a drap went in. He’s put it to his bonny cheek, etc., II, 284 f., 287; IV, 235, 427 f., 431.

The firstin kirk (town) that they came till They gard the bells be rung, At the nexten kirk that they came till They gard the mass be sung, II, 358, 350 f., 367, 380, 385, 388 f., 391 f., 396, 469; IV, 487 f., 490.

Johnny Barbary used to be the first, But now the last came he, II, 401, 403, 460 f., 463, 466, 469, 471, 473-6; IV, 491; V, 238.

She’s taen her mantle her about, Her cane (pike-staff, rod) intill her hand, II, 223; III, 245, 248, 505; IV, 408 (6); of man, II, 370; IV, 408 (14). (Corrupted, also, III, 250, 252.)

She’s taen her mantle her about, Her coffer by the band, I, 350; III, 244; IV, 385. Cf. IV, 456.

She’s taen her petticoat (petticoats) by the band, Her mantle owre her arm, I, 348, 349 (bis); II, 475.

The knight he knacked (wrung) his white fingers, The lady tore her hair, II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9.

Will ye gae to the cards or dice, etc., II, 109, 154, 164, 409; IV, 391, 415.

(Wedding procession.) Wi four-and-twenty buirdlie men Atween ye and the wun, And four-and-twenty bonnie mays Atween ye and the sun. Four-and-twenty milk-white geese, Stretching their wings sae wide, Blawing the dust aff the high-way, That Mild Mary may ride, II, 315. See II, 132, 183, 195 a; IV, 470.

I’ll gae in at your gown-sleeve, And out at your gown-hem, I, 508; II, 366.

Man and woman riding, no word spoken by either (or by one of them) for a long distance, I, 41-44; III, 497 b; V, 207 a, 285 a (in French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Scandinavian, Slavic; not English).

Communion-bread called “God,” etc., III, 103 n.; V, 240, 299, 359 (under mood).

The Complaynt of Scotland, I, 336, 390; II, 51 n., 296; III, 292, 303, 317, 362 f.; V, 202.

Compulsory marriage, woman carried off, III, 329; IV, 232-54, 308-10; V, 168 f., 261-264.

Confession, wife’s, heard by husband disguised, III, 258-64.

The Constant but Unhappy Lovers, chap-book, V, 33.

Constantine, Emperor, his leprosy miraculously cured, V, 285.

Conte du Graal, Gautier’s, ugly lady in, V, 289 b. See also Chrétien.

Contes à rire, I, 268 n., 408;

Nouveaux Contes à rire, I, 408.

Conversion, remarkably sudden, of Jean Livingston, IV, 29 f.

Copland, John of, takes David Bruce prisoner at Durham, III, 286.

Corgarf Castle, III, 427, 434.

Cork-heeled shoon, II, 20, 22 f., 27, 29 f., 88; III, 393.

Corsabrin, King of Mont Oscur, V, 6.

Cort Mantel, fabliau, I, 257, 266.

Costumes enclosed in nut-shells or small bags, I, 260, and n.

The Cotter’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.

The Countess of Northumberland (Rising in the North), III, 403-5, 410, 417.

La Coupe Enchantée, La Fontaine, I, 265.

Craddocke, I, 264 n., 272 f.; V, 289 a (Welsh Caradawc).

Crawford, Earl, ballad, IV, 276 ff.

Crecrynbroghe Castle, III, 430.

Créqui, Sire de, I, 459.

Crescentia, II, 181.

Crichton. See under Family Names.

Cries, three (four), maid about to be murdered asks and is allowed, I, 32-37, 39, 41 f., 47, 487 b; V, 207.

Cromlet’s Lilt, reply to, II, 317 n.

Cromwell, Thomas Lord, ballad, III, 377.

Diu Crône of Heinrich von dem Türlîn, I, 264, 266, 279 a.

Cross burned or cut into the flesh, II, 240, 242, 513 a; III, 514; IV, 476; V, 225 b.

The Cruel Mother, German variations of (Die Rabenmutter, Kindesmörderin, u.s.w.), I, 219 f., 504 a; II, 500 a; III, 502 b; IV, 451 a; V, 212 a, 287 b;

Slavic, Magyar, Croat, variations, I, 220, 504 a; III, 502 b; V, 287 f.

The Cruel Mother, story of, blended with that of Magdalen and Samaritan women, I, 230;

with that of the Samaritan woman simply, ib.

Cuchulinn, Cuculin, IV, 463 b, 479 b.

Culpepper, affair of the Earl of Devonshire with, IV, 111.

Cunigund, name of Gunhild, wife of the Emperor Henry III, after her marriage, II, 38.

Cunigund, St., wife of the Emperor St. Henry II, her ordeal, II, 38.

Cunningham, Allan, his handling of Scottish ballads, I, 62 119 n., 142, 227, 436; II, 260, 302 f.; III, 265, 381; IV, 9, 80; V, 107; etc.

Curse, mother’s, I, 386; IV, 181, 186-9; V, 257, 301 a.

Cursor Mundi, I, 240, 505; II, 2, 7 nn.

Curtal Friar and curtal dogs, III, 121, 124 f.

Dactyliomancy, III, 411, and n.; V, 299 b.

Δαιμόνιον μεσημβρινόν, III, 505 f. See Mittagsfrau and Noon-sprite.

Dame Ragnell, I, 290.

Damiani, Pietro, I, 237 n.

La damoisele hydeuse in Chrétien’s Perceval, II, 502 b; IV, 454 a; V, 289 b.

Damsel who prizes herself too highly marries and has a litter of nine pups, a pig, and a boy, I, 210.

Dance, probation by, of young woman suspected of having had a child; she dies in consequence; she dances with all the men of the court, tires out successively all the courtiers, the king and the queen; dances seven hours without breaking down, II, 102 (dance ordered, but deprecated, 103);

jealous or offended lover makes his mistress dance till her boots are full of blood, II, 103;

young woman who has just borne a child, married against her will, dances with her lover after the wedding and dies of the exertion, II, 104-8, 110; IV, 465;

girl tires out fifteen partners (in Danish ballads), IV, 214;

lass of Anglesey, dancing on king’s party against English lords, tires out fifteen of them, 215.

Daniel von Blühenthal, I, 257 n.

Dansekar, the pirate, V, 143.

Dark complexions in women, not in favor, I, 120, 133, M, (10), 135 (1); II, 182-97; V, 167 f.

Darnley, Lord (Henry Stuart), III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401, 442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;

murder of, in revenge for his complicity in the murder of Rizzio, III, 399, 401;

hanged on a tree, 401, 444.

Dasakumaracharitam, I, 14.

The Daughter of King Under-waves, Scottish-Gaelic tale (Nighean Righ fo Thuinn), I, 297.

Davenant, Sir William, The Wits, II, 243.

David, King of Judah, gives hard questions to his sons to determine his successor; answered by Solomon, I, 13 n.

David Bruce, King of Scotland, can brook no opposition and kills his own squire for warning him of the danger of invading England; distributes portions of English territory among his chief men, before the battle of Durham, III, 284 f.;

is taken prisoner by John of Copland, 286;

meets King John of France, also a captive, in London, 287.

De simplicitate viri et uxoris, tale of Sercambi, V, 97.

The Dead.

Dead body compromises the safety of a ship, I, 245 n.

Dead body lying in a river, expedients for discovering, II, 143, 145, 147 f., 151, 155.

Dead body may be caused to speak by setting door ajar or half open, II, 281, 282 (15) (Scott. Nothing said of the door being ajar in B, p. 283, or in the original of A, IV, 478).

Dead brother admonishes his sister for her pride of dress, I, 428, 430 f.

Carlin’s three sons come back from Paradise with hats of birch, II, 238 f.

Dead corpse of boy makes appointment to meet mother, III, 244 f., 247; V, 241.

The dead, love tokens asked back by; gifts returned by, II, 228.

Grief for the dead detrimental to their comfort and peace, II, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513; V, 294;

resentment for the disturbance occasioned by, V, 62;

tears for dead lover fill his coffin with blood; cheerfulness causes his grave to be hung with rose-leaves, II, 228.

Kiss from the dead fatal, I, 439; II, 229-32, 236 f.; III, 512 f.; IV, 474 f.;

bramble-leaf comes between the lips of maid and lover, and her life saved, IV, 474.

Maid demands answers of her dead lover to questions concerning state of the dead as condition of returning his troth, II, 231-3.

Dead man coming on horseback to his mistress (wife, sister) and taking her with him, V, 60;

tales, 60-3, 303;

ballads, 63-67, 303.

Dead mother revisits her daughter, and would have torn her to pieces, V, 303 b.

Dead mistress admonishes her lover, I, 426.

Troth asked for and returned by maid to dead lover, or resumed by her, II, 227, 229-33.

Father asks return of troth from his son, II, 512 b.

Dead lover (like the Devil, Elfin Knight) sets maid tasks and would have taken her with him if she had not ‘answered well,’ baffled him by requiring preliminary counter-tasks, IV, 439 f.

Death feigned by maid (who takes a draught which produces insensibility) in order to get to her lover, II, 355 f., 358-67; III, 517; IV, 482-6; V, 234 a;

save her honor, avoid becoming a king’s mistress, avoid marrying a Turk, avoid a disagreeable suitor, or to move a lover, II, 356; III, 517; IV, 482 b; V, 234 a, 296 b;

painful or disagreeable tests of her sensibility, II, 359, 361, 364-7; III, 517 b; IV, 485; V, 296 b.

Death feigned by wife to escape to lover, or apparent death operated by sleeping draughts administered by lover (woman is in some cases buried, disinterred and carried off), V, 3 f., 6, 280;

tests of sensibility applied, V, 3, 6.

Death feigned by lover in order to possess himself of maid when she comes to his wake, or his funeral, I, 247-53, 506 f.; II, 502 a; III, 503 a; IV, 453; V, 212, 289 a. (The maid in a convent in some cases, and the body introduced into the cloister; nuns think it an angel that has taken maid off, and they wish the like for themselves, I, 248 f.)

Death of bridegroom, husband, concealed from bride, wife, by evasions, I, 376-9, 381, 383-7.

The Death of Keeldar, ballad by Sir W. Scott, IV, 25.

The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by Anthony Munday and Henry Chettle, III, 129, 519.

Death-naming. See Naming.

The Debateable Land, III, 363 n., 473.

Dee, Water of, II, 283, 468; III, 360, 457; IV, 52 f., 103.

Delamere, Lord, ballad, IV, 110 ff.

Deloney’s Pleasant History of John Winchcomb (Jacke of Newburie), I, 111, 113.

Demaundes Joyous, I, 13 n.

Demoniac character of the murderous knight in No 4, I, 49 f.

Derby, Earl of, incurs the anger of Henry VIII because Lancashire and Cheshire are maliciously represented by the Earl of Surrey to have failed to do their duty at Flodden, III, 355-7;

the next day a letter from the queen gives all the credit of the victory to Lancashire and Cheshire and the Earl of Derby, and the Stanleys are in high favor, III, 359.

Derwentwater, ballad by Allan Cunningham, IV, 116.

Derwentwater, Lord, ballad, IV, 115 ff.

Derwentwater’s Lights, IV, 117.

Les deux Fiancés, tale of French Brittany, V, 64.

Devil appears to counsel and take part in a murder, IV, 31.

Devil gives riddles, I, 4 f., C, D, and tasks, 14;

(represented imposes tasks and is baffled by the maid, 18 f., I;

the devil express, V, 283;

seeks to nonplus boy, I, 22, 485 b.

Devil takes lover to hell and shows him his mistress in torment, Breton ballad, I, 426.

Devil would be a maid’s leman, V, 283.

Devonshire, Earl of, fights with a French or Dutch lord in defence of Lord Delamere, IV, 111-115.

Diarmaid allows a hideous woman to come near his fire and under his blanket, she is transformed into the most beautiful creature in the world, Gaelic tale, I, 298;

cf. Irish story, V, 289 b.

Diarmaid and Grainne, West Highland Gaelic tale, I, 8.

Diarmaid and the Magic Boar, West Highland tale, II, 500.

Diarmaid’s wife tries the robe which is a test of chastity, Gaelic ballad, I, 261 f.; V, 289.

Dicing for prisoners, III, 378 f.

Diderik, King, and Gunild, II, 36.

Dietrichs Flucht, IV, 463 b.

Dietrichsaga, I, 49.

Dieu vous saue, Dame Emme, song or ballad, II, 38 n.

Disenchantment effected by drinking of blood, or by drawing blood from the bewitched, I, 178, 337, and n.;

by kisses given (or received from) a disgusting or terrible creature, or by touching the same, I, 307-11, 313, 338 n.; II, 502 b, 504 f.; III, 504 a; IV, 454 a; V, 214, 290 a;

not completed without, often operated by, immersion in milk or water, I, 308, 338, and n., 339 n., 342, 344; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, 39 f.;

other processes or conditions, I, 313, 315; V, 215.

Disenchantment of hideous woman effected by obtaining absolute sovereignty over a man’s will, I, 290-2, 295 f., 299;

by finding a man who would accept his life at her hands, kiss her, and share her bed, 293;

by being admitted to a king’s or hero’s bed, 297 f.; V, 289 b;

by getting king’s brother for husband, I, 507 a;

disenchantment of seemingly ugly old man effected by gaining the love of a beautiful girl, V, 213 a;

of linden-worm, snake, by being admitted to maid’s bed, I, 298; II, 502 b; IV, 454 a (cf. V, 289 b);

of crocodile by girl’s licking his face, V, 215 b.

Disguises of outlaws, Fulk Fitz-Warine, Hereward, Eustace, Wallace, Robin Hood, III, 109 f., 117 f., 178-82, 184, 191, 271, 273 f.;

other disguises, as beggar or pilgrim, V, 2, 4, 5, 279 f.;

as charcoal man, V, 6.

Dish made from ashes and bones of murdered man denounces the murderers, I, 126.

Dissawar, Disaware, name borne by Prince Roswall and the Lord of Lorn after exchanging positions with the steward, V, 44, 49, 55.

Dobrynya, Russian epic hero, V, 295 a.

Dodhead, the, IV, 5 f., 518 b; V, 249-51.

Dog who could indicate pregnant women, adulterers, etc., I, 270 n.

Dole-day, II, 436.

Dolopathos, Latin (and French) romance, I, 392.

Don Bueso, Catalan representative of Young Beichan, I, 462.

Don John of Austria meets the Earl of Westmoreland on the sea, takes him to Seville and recommends him to the queen, III, 420 f.

Doon l’Alemanz, chanson de geste, II, 40.

Doors and windows thrown on a combatant to take him prisoner, III, 24.

Douglas. See under Family Names.

Douglas, Northumberland betrayed by, ballad, III, 408 ff.

Douglas, tragedy by Home, II, 263, and n., 264.

Douglas, Gavin, Palice of Honour, II, 136, V, 69 n.

Douglas, James, Earl, in the Scottish Otterburn alleged to have been stabbed before the battle by one of his own men, or a boy whom he had offended, III, 294, 299; V, 244;

in another version, to have gone into battle without his helmet, III, 300;

challenges Percy to single combat in The Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 308;

dreams that a dead man wins a fight and thinks that man is he, III, 300, IV, 501.

Douglas, Jamie, ballad, IV, 90 ff.

Douglas, Lady, of Lochleven, tries to protect the Earl of Northumberland from the treachery of William Douglas, III, 411-3;

shows his chamberlain his English enemies waiting for him 150 miles off through the hollow of her ring, 412.

Douglas, William, Earl of Angus, his encounter with the English at Piperden, III, 305.

Douglas, William, knight of Liddesdale, III, 282 f., 284 f., 288.

Douglas, William, of Lochleven, III, 409, 411-14, 443 f., 446.

Douns Lioð, II, 506 a; III, 518 b.

D’Ouville, L’Élite des Contes du Sieur, I, 408; V, 96.

The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington, play by A. Munday, III, 46, 122, 129, 130 n., 179, 218, 220, 227, 519 b; V, 100.

Dramatic representation of ballads by young people, I, 249; IV, 439 b; V, 90.

Dreams:

of bower full of red swine and bride-bed full of blood, II, 200;

room fu o red swine and bride’s bed daubd wi blude, II, 292;

chamber full of swine and bed full of blood, IV, 426;

bowr lin’d with white swine and brid-chamber full of blood, II, 202, B, 11;

chamber full of wild men’s wine and bride-bed stood in blood, II, 202, C, 4;

bower full of milk-white swans and bride’s bed full of blood, IV, 433;

of pulling green heather, IV, 164, 167-9, 171-5, 180 (heather bell), 522; V, 255;

green birk, IV, 176;

apples green, IV, 523;

other dreams, II, 33 n., 41, 45, 205;

to dream of blood bodes ill, II, 292 f.;

to dream of ravens is the loss of a near friend, II, 293.

Die drei Brüder, tale, I, 125, 493 b.

Drink which causes forgetfulness, I, 363, and n., 364.

Drinking formulas, challenge and response, V, 71-73.

Drinking to friends upon the eve of execution, IV, 30 n.

Drolleries, nonplussing, I, 20-2, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b; IV, 440 b.

Drowned bodies, mode of discovering, II, 143, 512 a; III, 509 a; IV, 468 a.

Drum, Laird of, ballad, IV, 322 ff.

Drumclog, ballad, IV, 105 ff.

Drummond. See under Family Names.

Dsanglun, oder der Weise und der Thor, I, 11 n., 13.

Duel in which innocent boy of fifteen vanquishes false accuser of thirty-three, IV, 371, 373. See Child-champion.

Dumfounding, fool wins a princess by, I, 20, 485 a.

Dunbar, William, Of Sir Thomas Norray, III, 91;

God gif ye war John Thomsoneis man, V, 8.

Durham, Battle of, III, 282 ff.

Dwarf-king, hill-king, beguiles a princess; she has children by him, though remaining with her mother; revealing the condition of things she is forced to go to the hill, where she dies or drinks a Lethean draught which makes her forget all her earlier history, I, 362, 363, and n.;

woman lives in the hill and there has her children; after eight or nine years is allowed to go home on terms; violating these, is compelled to return to the hill, where she dies, or is given a drink which induces forgetfulness, I, 363 f.

See Merman.

Dwarf Land, I, 259.

Dying man, woman, directs that father, mother, wife, etc., be kept in ignorance of his, her, death, I, 436-40, 442; II, 14, and n.; III, 380 f., 507 b; IV, 460, 508-10, 512 f.; V, 247.

Earl of Toulouse, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.

Eating and drinking, personal contact, exchange of speech, etc., in Elfland, or any abode of unearthly beings, perilous, I, 322-5, 327 f.; II, 505; IV, 455, 458.

Edda, the Elder (Sæmund’s):

Völuspá, I, 21;

Þrymskviða, I, 298;

Vafþrúðnismál, I, 13, 283 n., 404;

Grímnismál, I, 67;

Alvíssmál, I, 13, 419;

Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.;

Helgakviða Hundingsbana, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306;

Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392;

Sigrdrífumál, I, 392;

Sigurðarkviða Fafnisbana, III, 2, 127;

Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.

Edda, Snorri’s:

Gylfaginning, I, 283 n.;

Skáldskaparmál, I, 94 n., 283 n.; II, 127; IV, 479 b.

Der edle Moringer, I, 196, 459; V, 291 b.

Edward the III and the Tanner of Tamworth, play by T. Heywood, V, 68 n.

Eger and Grime, Eger, Grime and Graysteel, romance, I, 209; II, 56; III, 306.

Egil’s apple-shot, III, 16.

Egils Saga ok Ásmundar, IV, 443.

Eildon Tree, I, 320 n., 324, 325, 327.

Eindriði, III, 18, 20 n.

Der Eisenhans, tale, V, 46.

Der Eisenhofen, tale, I, 307 n.

Der eiserne Mann, tale, V, 46.

Eleanor, Queen of Henry II of England, III, 257 ff.;

of Edward I, 257.

Eleusinian priests, holy names of, V, 285 b.

Elf-dance, I, 375-77; IV, 459 a; V, 216 a.

Elfin knight haunts a hill, I, 15-7;

elfin knight sets a maid tasks to be done before she can marry him, I, 15-17.

Elf-knight, hill-man, excites love-longing by the sound of his horn, I, 15-17, 23, 55, 367.

Elf-queen would have taken out Tam Lin’s eyes and have put in eyes of wood, I, 343, 345, 356.

Elf-queen and witches take out the heart of man and replace it with straw, stone, etc., I, 339, 345, 347 f., 353, 356.

Elf-rod controls the will, I, 362.

Elf-shot, elf-stroke (==Elveskud), I, 374-7, 382, 385.

Élie de Saint-Gille and Rosamonde, I, 458 n.; III, 508 a, b.

Ellensborg, Stolt, Jomfrue (Ellen), Scandinavian representative of Susie Pye, I, 459-61.

Elliot. See under Family names.

Elritch (eldrige) king haunts a hill in the night and fights with any comer, II, 58 f.;

fighting with elritch or spectral knights, II, 511 a; III, 508.

Elves, mermaids, or water-nymphs:

ballads in which the results of dealing with or encountering them prove fatal, I, 372-389;

inconstancy in relations with elves, mermaids, etc., has fatal consequences, I, 372-5, 387-9;

elf threatens man with sickness, knives, death, if he will not dance with her, I, 376 f.;

option of living with elves, marrying an elf, or dying, I, 377, 379, 381, 383 f.;

poison grains in drink given by elves, I, 375;

elf, hill-maid, mermaid, promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to her (dance with her), I, 314, 375, 376; III, 504 a; V, 214 b;

offers man shirt as love-token, V, 284;

elves, spirits and the like, reproaching or insulting, I, 21, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; IV, 440 b;

elves and water-sprites desire help of mortal women at lying-in time and in nursing, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b.

See also Elf-dance, Elfin, Elf-queen, Elf-rod, Elf-shot.

Emma, wife of Cnut the Great, her ordeal, and ballad concerning, II, 38, and n.

Enchantment, restoration from, after successive changes of shape, by drawing blood, I, 337;

by drinking blood, etc., 337 n.;

victim of enchantment, inoffensive before, becomes fierce and destructive, I, 289 f., 294 f., 316.

L’Enfant de Chœur de Notre-Dame du Puy, legend, III, 240.

Engelische Comedien und Tragedien, V, 97.

Englishmen warned not to come to Scotland for brides, IV, 219, 221 f., 224-8, 230.

Epithets (as Fair Margaret, Sweet William, Child Maurice):

Bold, I, 453; II, 320.

Bonny, II, 276; III, 447; IV, 52 f., 143, 233.

Burd, I, 256; II, 71, 87, 91, 97, 140; IV, 418-421; V, 227-9.

Child, Chil, Chiel, I, 62; II, 85, 128, 133, 263;

Child of Ell, I, 103;

child of Wynd, Childy Wynd==Child Owyne, I, 312 f.; II, 503 f.;

alternating with Gil, I, 62; II, 130, 263.

Clerk, I, 387-9; II, 158-161, 164 f.; IV, 385 f., 428, 468.

Dove (Dow), II, 97.

Fair, I, 341, 343, 345, 431; II, 63, 92, 100, 179, 200, 207, 212, 213, etc.

Hind, I, 187, 369 f.; II, 305.

Kemp, Kempy, I, 300, 306.

Love, II, 216 f., 220-3, 293, 369 f., 389, 395.

May, I, 22, 369; II, 158, 164, 232, 305; III, 452, 455; V, 257;

Maid Marian, III, 218.

Mild (Mile), II, 72, 315; III, 386, 395 f., 398; IV, 507 f., 510 f.

Sweet, I, 68; II, 97, 100, 168 f., 171, 179, 200, 226, 291, etc.

Young, I, 256, 367, 371, 432, 454; II, 51, 142, 282, 288, 343; III, 452, 454 f., etc.

Erl of Toulous, romance, II, 33 n., 41 f., 43 n.

Errol, Earl of, ballad, IV, 282 ff.

Essex, the young Earl of, V, 146.

Estmere, nuncio of King Adler, II, 50;

King, and brother of Adler, 51-5.

Ettrick Forest, V, 187-9, 191-7.

Eulenspiegel, I, 409.

Eulogium Historiarum, I, 157.

Eustace the Monk, III, 43, 53, 109, 191, 211, 476 n.

Evils, a hundred, enter into a man who has proved false in love, IV, 419.

Example-books, I, 292 n.

Fa, Faa, Faw, Foix, Faux, IV, 61-70;

Johnie, Jockie, Faa, 61-6, 68-70; IV, 513 b, 522 a; V, 188;

takes in one manuscript the place of Captain Car or of Edom o Gordon, IV, 513 b.

Fabliaux: Le mantel mautaillié, Cort Mantel, I, 257, 266;

La mule sanz frein, I, 417 n.;

Du povre mercier, III, 54;

Du chevalier qui ooit la messe, etc., III, 96 n.;

Du chevalier qui fist sa femme confesse, III, 258;

Le chevalier à l’espée, III, 508 a;

Des tresces, V, 22 f., n.;

Du chevalier à la corbeille, V, 121.

Fáfnismál, I, 96, 392.

Fair Annie of Kirkland, ballad of A. Cunningham’s, I, 436.

The Fair one of the Castle, Persian riddle poem, I, 417.

A fair pretty maiden she sat on her bed, IV, 439 b.

Fairies, euphemisms for, good damsels, good ladies, I, 314, gude neighbors, I, 352 (cf. Romaic, I, 314 n.);

failure of a husband to rescue his wife who had been carried off by, I, 336;

ride white steeds, I, 216, 323, 325, 339 f. (Tam Lin mounted, but not the rest of the fairy train, 342, 344, 346, 348, 349, 351, 352, 355);

ride dapple-gray steeds, 324, 326;

fairies, water-spirits, etc., solicit help of mortal women at lying-in time and as nurses, I, 358-60; II, 505 f.; III, 505 f.; IV, 459 a; V, 215 b, 290 b;

fairy, at first appearance, taken for the Virgin, I, 319, 327; III, 504 a; IV, 455;

fairy salve applied to mortals’ eyes gives power of seeing fairies, but is dangerous to use, I, 339; II, 505 b; III, 505 b; V, 290 a.

False luve, and hae ye played me this, IV, 210.

Family names, the principal:—

Argyll, III, 397; IV, 55-60, 99, 131, 135, 271; V, 252, 266;

Gleyd Argyle, IV, 55, 57-60, 135.

Armstrong, III, 363-71, 409, 419, 461-7, 469-83, 485 n.; IV, 432; V, 298.

Barnard, Bernard, Barnet, Burnett, Burnard, Lord, II, 244-8, 251 f., 256-8, 266-74.

Burnet, I, 453; IV, 82, 355-8. (Burnett for Barnard, II, 256.)

Campbell, III, 427, 435-8; IV, 56-59, 142-4, 514; V, 252. See Argyll.

Cassilis, Earl of, IV, 62, 64-7, 70, 124, 133; V, 301.

Crichton, III, 458-60; IV, 39-47.

Douglas, III, 282-5, 288-301, 304 f., 307-14, 409, 411-14, 443-6; IV, 36 f., 50, 90 f., 93-104, 499-501; V, 190, 227, 243 f.

Drummond, IV, 276, 282, 292.

Elliot, III, 370, 471, 473; IV, 5 f., 34; V, 249-51;

Martin Elliot, III, 409, 471; V, 249-51.

Fenwick (Fennick, Fenix, Phenix, Phœnix), II, 312, 442-55; IV, 140, 371-5.

Forbes, IV, 48 f., 51-3, 83, 86; V, 254.

Gordon (Huntly, Aboyne), III, 294, 296, 299, 301, 341, 345, 349, 378 f., 400, 424-6, 432-8, 447-9, 456 f.; IV, 39-47, 51-3, 80-7, 108 f., 124, 127, 129 f., 133-8, 295, 312-22, 333-8, 341 f., 344, 347-50, 500 f., 505, 513 f.; V, 165, 243 f., 247 f., 254, 270-75, 301.

Graham (Græme, Gryme), I, 211; III, 299, 318; IV, 9-15, 76, 78, 105-7, 109 f., 146-8; IV, 157, 241 f., 267-9, 500, 518-20; V, 265, 300. See Montrose.

Hall, III, 485, 487-94; IV, 24-8, 517, 520 f.

Hamilton, III, 285, 341, 382, 384-97, 428, 431, 442; IV, 36, 38, 64, 106, 108, 163, 505-13; V, 187, 191, 193, 246 f., 298 f.

Hay, IV, 41 f., 45, 48, 127 f., 136, 233 f., 282-4, 286-91; V, 267-9, 301.

Howard, III, 335-7, 339-45, 348-56, 359, 377; IV, 503-7.

Hume, Home, III, 409, 412; IV, 12 f., 272 f., 281, 293 f., 296-8, 518; V, 270.

Lindsay, III, 291, 299, 301; IV, 256-66, 276-9, 500 f., 524; V, 243 f., 264 f.

Livingston, II, 312, 314 f.; III, 381, 382 n., 389 f.; IV, 29-33, 233, 235-8, 431-3; V, 227-9, 246, 261.

Macdonald (Macdonell), III, 316-19; IV, 256-66, 271 f., 274 f., 524; V, 265-7.

Macgregor, Rob Roy, IV, 243, 246-53; V, 263 f.;

Rob Oig, IV, 243-54; V, 262-4;

James, IV, 243 f., 252;

Duncan, IV, 244;

Glengyle, IV, 245, 252.

Maxwell, III, 292, 296, 298, 310, 313, 485; IV, 34-38.

Murray, III, 298, 310; V, 185, 187-97, 307.

Neville, III, 283 f., 402-4, 406, 409, 417, 419-23.

Ogilvie, III, 316; IV, 55 f., 58, 333 f., 336-8; V, 252.

Percy, II, 383 f.; III, 282 f., 286, 289-301, 304 f., 307-14, 402-6, 409-14; IV, 500 f.; V, 243 f.

Scott, III, 297 f., 469-74; IV, 5-8, 34, 163 f.; V, 189, 249 f.

Scott of Buccleuch, III, 410, 417, 469-74; V, 186, 189.

Stanley, III, 328 f., 331-3, 354-9, 377 f.

Stuart, III, 298, 316; IV, 109, 425;

Charles Edward, the Young Pretender, IV, 55, 57-60; V, 252;

Francis, Earl of Bothwell, III, 449;

Henry, Earl of Darnley, III, 382, 384-7, 390, 392-4, 399-401, 442, 444, 446; IV, 507 f., 510, 512;

James, Earl of Murray, Regent, III, 400, 409, 417, 442, 447;

James, the Bonny Earl of Murray, III, 447-9;

James Francis Edward, the Old Pretender, IV, 116, 118-23; V, 255.

See Kings and Queens of England and Scotland.

Farce d’un Chauldronnier, V, 97 f.

The Farmer, his wife, and the open door, Indian tale, V, 281.

Farmer Weathersky, Norse tale, III, 507.

Farrow cow’s milk regarded as best, I, 224; II, 261.

Fascinating horn (harp), I, 15-17, 50, 55; IV, 441.

Fascinating song, I, 25, 28 b, 31-35, 37 f., 44, 485; IV, 441; V, 285 a.

Les Faveurs et les Disgraces de l’Amour, French tale from Bandello, I, 269.

La Fée Urgèle, melodrama of Favart, I, 292.

The Felon Sow and the Friars of Richmond, I, 209 n.

Fenwick. See under Family Names.

La Fiancée du Mort, Breton tale, V, 303 b.

Fiddle, parts of maid’s body taken for, fiddle speaks, I, 494; IV, 449.

Fights, hand to hand, of Robin Hood or his men, duration of:

one hour, III, 64, 219;

two hours, 93, 138, 151;

three hours, 153;

six hours, 125, 166, 169;

a long summer’s day, 131.

Fikenild, Horn’s false friend, I, 188-90.

Filer le parfait amour, tale of Sénecé, I, 269.

Fin, Finn, Finns, I, 21; II, 494, 496 b. See Finns.

Fin, a diabolic personage or warlock, his wit-contest with Harpkin, I, 21.

Finger cut off, of maid substituted for mistress, exhibited as token of conquest of the mistress’s virtue, V, 22-4, 27.

Fingers knacked, knocked, cracked, wrung, for grief, II, 26, 312-15, 319; III, 455, 477; IV, 418, 435; V, 227-9. (Some passages corrupted.)

Finn, Gaelic hero, his wife tries the robe which is the test of chastity, I, 261 f.; cf. V, 289 a.

Finns, submarine, by donning seal-skin, enabled to ascend to land, losing the skin become subject to the power of man like swan-maidens, II, 494; III, 518; IV, 495 a.

See Fin.

Finsbury field, archery at, III, 197, 201, 203.

Fionn’s conversation with Ailbhe, I, 3.

Fionn’s Questions, Gaelic tale, I, 3.

Fire will not burn a maid accused but innocent; burns her guilty mistress, II, 145 f., 148, 153, 155.

Fish, frying, fly out of the pan to attest the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, I, 241; II, 501 b; IV, 452 a; V, 288 b.

Fitchers Vogel, tale, I, 47.

Fjölsvinnsmál, I, 281 n.

La Flauuto, French tale, I, 125.

La Fleur du Rocher, Breton story, III, 504.

Floamanna saga, II, 35 n.; V, 275.

Flodden, Battle of, III, 351 ff.

Floire et Blanceflor, Flor and Blancheflor, romance, I, 269; II, 500 a, 502 a, 510 b; V, 175.

La Flor del Lililá, Spanish tale, I, 125.

Florent, in Gower’s Confessio Amantis, I, 291 f.

Florentina, De Historia van, I, 268, 459 n.

Florimel’s girdle, I, 267, and n.

Das Flötenrohr, tale, III, 499.

Flowers, costume of, IV, 212-14; V, 258 f.

Flyting, baffling spirits by scolding, or by getting the last word, I, 20-2, 485 a; II, 496 b, 509 a; III, 496 a; IV, 440 b.

Foiling mischievous sprites and ghosts by prolonging talk till the time when they must go, IV, 440 b;

Thor detains Alvíss till after sunrise; being above ground at dawn, he is turned to stone, I, 419.

Folk-drama, etc.

See Robin Hood, St. George.

Fool poses princess (and gets her in marriage), I, 20, 417 f., 485 a; II, 507 b.

Foot-ball match, II, 434 f.

Forbes, family of Drumminor at the battle of Harlaw, III, 319;

encounters of the Forbeses with Adam Gordon, III, 424-6;

burning of the house of Towie (or Corgarf), 424 f., 427;

family of Craigievar, IV, 51-3.

See under Family Names.

Foresters, fosters, III, 3-11, 28, 152, 176, 215; V, 74, and n.

Forgetfulness of earthly relations induced by draught administered to a woman by hill-folk, I, 363, and n., 364;

man made by magical or other means to forget a first love, suddenly restored to consciousness and to his predilection, I, 461, and n.

Fornsvenskt Legendarium, I, 14 n., 237 n.; II, 2, 7 n.

Fortalicium Fidei of Espina, III, 239.

Forty Viziers, Turkish tales, I, 402; V, 13, 97.

Fountain springs where maid has been murdered, V, 287 a.

Fountains Abbey, III, 121, 123 f., 126.

The Four Elements, morality, II, 240; III, 42 n.

Frater i turski car, Croatian tale, I, 409.

Frau Tristerat of Savoy, horn of, meistergesang, I, 263.

Frendraught, Fire of, IV, 39 ff., 521 f.; V, 251, 301.

Frendraught, A Satyre against, etc., IV, 522.

Friar in the Well, The, ballad and tune, V, 100.

Friar of Orders Grey, Percy’s ballad, and ballads like it, II, 426 f.; V, 201.

Friar Tuck:

not a member of Robin Hood’s company in any old ballad, III, 43;

but in both the plays, 91, 127 f.,

in the latter representing the Curtal Friar of the ballad, who is even called Friar Fuck in the title of one version, though not in the ballad, 122;

simply named as of Robin Hood’s troop in two later ballads, 198, 209;

a character in the May-game, and perhaps the morris, 44-6;

Friar Tuck in Munday’s play, The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington, III, 179, 519.

Friðþjófs saga, IV, 376.

Froissart, III, 283 n., 289-94, 337 n.; V, 297 b.

Fruit, eating of in subterranean garden, entails going to hell, I, 322, 324, 328 f.

Fulk Fitz-Warine, III, 40 n., 43, 49 n., 51, 53, 95, 109, 476 n., 519.

The Fuller’s Son, Gaelic tale, III, 507.

Le Fumeur de Hachich et sa femme, tale, V, 304 a.

La Furnarella, Italian tale==the ballad ‘Il Genovese,’ II, 502 a.

Fyvie, cheese of, as a love-potion, V, 305 b.

The Gaberlunyie man, V, 109 f., 115 f.

Gabs, brags, vows, I, 277, 281, 283, 285.

Galerent, romance, IV, 463 b.

Galien, romance, I, 274, 276 n., 278 n., 282 n., 507 a.

Gamble Gold, a pedlar, otherwise Gamwell of the greenwood, turns out to be Robin Hood’s cousin (see Gamwell, Young), III, 155; V, 240.

Game-laws, offenders against (besides Robin Hood and his men), III, 3-11, 13 (?), 22.

Gamelyn, tale of, III, 12, 22, 51-3, 144.

Games, ballads turned into, I, 33 n.; II, 346; III, 516 b; IV, 439 b, 441 b.

Games: gallant rides at the ring; plays at the ba, and glove, III, 448;

girl plays at ring and ba, IV, 354, A, b, 1, 2.

Gamwel, Robin Hood’s mother of that name, III, 215.

Gamwell, Young, nephew of Robin Hood according to late ballads; afterwards called Scarlet, Scadlock, III, 146, 150;

Gamwell of the green-wood, an apparent pedlar, is discovered to be Robin Hood’s cousin, V, 240.

These, and Gamble Gold, III, 155, are the same person.

Gandelyn, III, 12-14.

Die Gänsemagd, Grimms’ German tale, V, 47;

Russian form, 281.

Garrett, Sir (==Sir Gareth), I, 295.

Garðaríki, I, 460 n.

Gasozein, gives himself out as Guenever’s first love, I, 279 n.

Gautier de Coincy, II, 13; III, 52 n., 239.

Gautier de Doulens (Gaucher de Dourdan), Conte du Graal, ugly lady (Rosette) in, V, 289 b.

Gawain, I, 285, 289 f., 294-296; V, 289 b.

Gaya, Ramiro’s wife, V, 5 f.

Geiplur, Icelandic “rune,” I, 275, and n.

Gelô, IV, 443 a.

Genovefa, Die Legende von der Pfalzgräfin, II, 41, and n.

Genoveva, falsely accused of adultery, II, 41.

George a Greene, the Pinner of Wakefield, a play by Robert Greene, III, 129, 130, and n.;

George a Green, a prose history, III, 130.

Gerhard, the Good, I, 197, 459.

Geruth, the giant, I, 323.

Gervase of Tilbury, I, 339 n., 359; II, 56, 511.

Gesta Romanorum, I, 8, 13, 191 n., 268, 391, 393, 406, 416, 418 n., 458 n.; II, 137, 502; III, 122.

Gestr the Blind (Odin) and King Heiðrekr, give each other riddles, I, 405.

Der getheilte Trauring, tale, I, 198.

Die getreue Frau, tale, I, 268 b, 4-6.

Le Geu des Trois Roys, mystery-play, II, 7 f.

Geyti shoots a nut from his brother’s head, III, 18.

Ghismonda and Guiscardo, in the Decameron, V, 29 ff., 303.

Ghost tears to pieces lover going from his mistress, and hangs a bit over every seat in church, IV, 416;

ghost of mother would have torn daughter to pieces, V, 303 b.

Giant with five heads, II, 59;

with three on his neck and three on his breast, V, 184;

giant with three spans between his brows and three yards between his shoulders, II, 394;

span between the eyes (brows) and three ells between the shoulders in ‘The Wee Man,’ I, 332.

Gifts offered by elf, hill-troll, mermaid to obtain young man’s love, I, 314, 375 f., 384; III, 504 a; V, 214.

Gigantic Scotsmen, IV, 397-9.

Gilbert of the White Hand, one of Robin Hood’s troop in the Gest, III, 70, 76.

Gilbert Beket, his legend, I, 457.

The Gipsie Laddie, ballad made over by Percy, IV, 62.

Giraldi Cinthio, Hecatommithi, V, 13.

Giraldus Cambrensis, Itinerarium Cambriae, I, 320 n.; II, 513 a;

Speculum Ecclesiae, V, 72 f.

Girl enticed into an inn by the hostler’s wife and put at a man’s disposal, V, 153-6.

Glammaðr, berserkr, IV, 443 a.

Glascurion (Chaucer), II, 136.

Glove, a game for braw gallants, III, 448, A, 5.

Glove, woman being unfit to dance, lover says he will cut his glove in two and dance for both, II, 105, st. 18.

Gloves, golden-knobbed, II, 133;

siller-knapped, 134.

Gnúpr, IV, 502 a.

God be with thee, Geordie, a tune, IV, 126 n., 454.

God offered as security, III, 52 n., 53 f., 519 a; IV, 497 a.

Golagros and Gawane, romance, I, 279 n.

Gold castles promised by knight to lady, I, 112.

Der Goldäpfelbaum und die Höllenfahrt, Greek tale, II, 509.

Golden apple thrown into the lap of a woman who has been made to consort with hill-man or merman, and who has been granted leave to visit her mother, to remind her of her obligations or to enforce her return, I, 364 f.

The Golden Key or Ball, tale, with verses from the ballad of the Maid Ransomed from the Gallows, II, 353-5; V, 201, 233.

Golden Legend, I, 14 n., 229, 237, 242 n., 245 n., 505; II, 235, 507; III, 51, 294 n.

Der goldene Apfel, tale, I, 125.

Das goldene Horn, meistergesang, I, 263.

Goldgerte, Greek tale, I, 338.

Goldsmith, Oliver, II, 276; III, 367.

Göngu-Hrólfs Saga, I, 393; II, 127; IV, 459 a, 502.

Goodnights, IV, 36.

The Goose Girl, German tale, V, 47, 281.

Gordon.

See under Family Names.

Gordon, Adam, III, 424-6, 432-8; IV, 513 f.; V, 247 f.

Gordon, Duke of Gordon’s Daughter, ballad, IV, 332 ff.

Gordon, George, hero of the ballad of Geordie, IV, 124 ff.

Gordon, William, of Rothiemay, IV, 39 ff.

Gorm’s visit to Guthmund, I, 323.

Görtmicheel, robber story, I, 488.

Gorvömb, Icelandic tale, I, 507.

Gôsht-i Fryânô, tale in Arḍâ-Vîrâf, II, 506 f.

Gospels, apocryphal: Nicodemus, I, 239, 240 n.;

Thomas, Greek and Latin, II, 7;

Protevangelium of James, I, 271;

Pseudo-Matthew, 1, 271; II, 1, 2 n., 7.

Gower, Confessio Amantis, I, 10, 291, 292 n.; V, 285.

Graf Hubert von Kalw, German tale, I, 198.

Graham.

See under Family Names.

Graham, Bewick and, ballad, IV, 144 ff.

Graidhne and Fionn, I, 3;

Graidhne and Diarmaid, I, 8.

Gramarye, for magic, in King Estmere, II, 53-55, efficient to make armor invulnerable, a man too formidable to be undertaken (written on his forehead), and swords irresistible.

Gramatica Parda, Spanish story, I, 407.

Grame, Hughie, ballad, IV, 8 ff.

La gran conquista de ultramar, II, 43 n.

Grant, James, ballad, IV, 49 ff.

Grateful lion, I, 194 f.

Grave: boy directs that he shall be buried with Bible at his head, chaunter at his feet, bow and arrows at his side, I, 438;

arrows at head, bent bow at feet, sword and buckler by his side, I, 440;

Bible at head, Testament at feet, III, 247-50 (also pen and ink at every side, 247);

Bible at head, “busker” at feet, prayer-book by right side, Bible at head, prayer-book at feet, III, 252;

Bible at head, Testament at feet, prayer-book at side, IV, 497 f.;

prayer-book at head, grammar at feet, V, 241;

Robin Hood wishes to be buried with sword at head, arrows at feet, bow and metyard by his sides, III, 105; cf. III, 104; V, 297 b.

Grave (for two): Lay my lady on the upper hand (uppermost), for she came of the better kin, II, 245, 247, 254.

Lay my lady on the sunny side because of her noble kin, II, 251; IV, 477;

Bury my bully Grahame on the sunny side, for I’m sure he’s won the victory, IV, 148;

Lay Munsgrove in the lowest flat, he’s deepest in the sin, II, 258.

(Coffin for two), Lay my lady at the right hand, for she’s come of the noblest kin, II, 253, 255.

Grave, living person descends into, and remains, V, 285 b.

Grave to be made where arrow falls, I, 185.

Graves, flowers from, in Miracles of the Virgin, I, 98 f.

Graves, lovers’, plants and trees from, I, 93, 94, 96-8, 101 f., 200, 489 f., 492, 506 a; II, 104, 108, 111, 183, 185, 190 f., 198, 201 f., 205-8, 210-12, 219, 280, 285 f., 498; III, 498, 510 b, 515; IV, 443, 450 a, 465; V, 31, 207, 224, 226, 262, 285 f.

Gray, Thomas, II, 264.

The great bull of Bendy-law, V, 203.

The Great Michael, a remarkably large and strong ship, commanded by Sir Robert Barton, III, 335 n.

Greek Anthology, V, 13.

Green, unlucky color, blue fortunate, II, 181 f., 184, 512; IV, 162;

Fair Annie, nevertheless is dressed in green, II, 196, and her men and maids in green (in an Irish copy), 197 f.

The Green Knight (Bredbeddle), I, 286 f.

Die Greifenfeder, tale of Italian Tirol, I, 125.

Grief, excessive, for the dead destroys their peace, II, 228, 234-7, 512 f.; III, 513 b; V, 62 f., 294.

Grimms, Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, I, 9, 14, 47, 125, 126, 198, 260 n., 408, 410; II, 127, 235, 502; IV, 17; V, 46 f.

Grímnismál, Edda, I, 67.

Grímr and Lopthæna, I, 292 f.;

Grímr consenting to three demands of a hideous woman, she turns into his beautiful true-love, Lopthæna, who had been transformed by her step-mother (Gríms saga Loðinkinna).

Gríms saga Loðinkinna, I, 292 f.

Der Grindkopf, Italian tale, II, 513 b.

Gromer, Sir, Sir Grummore Grummorsum, Gromer Somer Joure, etc., I, 289, and n., 290, and n.; V, 289 b.

Growth, marvellous, and other precociousness, especially in heroes of tales and romances, II, 303, 305 f., 513 b; III, 515 b; IV, 35 n., 80, 479 b; V, 226 a, 295 a.

Guapos, Spanish ballads of, III, 49.

Gudeman of Ballengeigh. I, 404.

Gudrun, I, 94 n., 95 n.

See Kudrun.

Guenever, Arthur’s queen, I, 257 f., 260-3, 271-3, 279 n., 283, 293, 296; II, 43 n.

Guerino, son of the King of Sicily, tale of Straparola, V, 46.

Guillaume d’Orenge, V, 298 a.

Guillaume de Palerne, romance, III, 505.

Guinevere.

See Guenever.

Guingamor, Lay of, V, 290 a.

Guiscardo and Ghismonda, Boccaccio’s tale, V, 29.

Gull-Þóris saga, IV, 502 a.

Gun charged with nine yards of chain beside other great shot, less and more, III, 341; IV, 505.

Gundeberg, wife of King Arioald, accused of adultery, vindicated by champion, II, 39.

Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, II, 37.

Gunild, Gunder, wife of Henry, Duke of Brunswick, II, 34-36;

Gunhild, daughter of Cnut the Great, wife of the Emperor Henry III, 37.

Gunnlaugs saga, II, 35 n.; V, 298 a.

Gustav Adolf und der Abt von Benediktbeuern, tale, I, 408.

Guthmund, I, 323.

Gwion and Koridgwen, Welsh tale, I, 402; II, 506 b; III, 507 a; V, 216.

Gypsies, IV, 62-74; V, 190.

Gypsy Davy, IV, 67, 72, 74;

Gypsy Geordie, 70.

Die Hahnkrähe bei Breslau. Silesian tale, I, 196 n.

Haig, James, IV, 281.

Hair, worn loose or in a braid by maid, bound up by married woman, II, 64 n., 69, 74 (D 3, E 3), 78 (5).

Hair, woman’s, added to a rope to lengthen it, I, 40;

man’s, III, 516 b;

sea-king’s daughter makes a rope of sixty ells’ length with her hair; maid with hair a hundred fathoms long, I, 486 (both used to draw a man out of a well or pit);

maid’s hair long enough to climb up by, I, 486 f.;

woman’s hair five quarters long, III, 437; IV, 167 f.;

man’s hair three, five, quarters long, IV, 172-4.

Hair:

woman ties her hair ronnd her dead husband’s, lover’s, waist, hand, and carries, draws, him home, IV, 166-8; V, 255;

ties his hair (five quarters long) to her horse’s mane and trails him home, IV, 173;

twines his hair (five quarters long) round her hand and draws him out of a river, 174;

twines her hair about his waist and draws him out of a river, 179.

Hair of maid substituted for mistress cut off and exhibited as token of conquest of the supposed mistress’s virtue, V, 22, and n.

Hálf’s, King, ship saved from foundering by man jumping overboard (and drowning), II, 15.

Hálfs saga, I, 95.

Hall.

See under Family Names.

Hall, Dicky, delivers his brother Archie from jail, III, 487-9, 492-4;

he is assisted by Jocky Hall, III, 487-9;

Jocky is the leader and Dick second, 489 f., 491 f.

Hall, knights and others riding into, II, 51, 54, 510 b; III, 508 a;

horses stabled in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 510 f.; III, 508 a.

Halloween, I, 342, 25, 344, 24, 345, 6, 346, 16, 347, 8, 349, 9, 351, 30, 352, 8, 507, 1, 2; III, 505, 11; IV, 456, 458 (eve of All Saints, when fairy folk ride);

hemp-seed sown by girls for a vision of their true love, V, 59, 286 a.

Hamilton.

See under Family Names.

Hamilton, John, Archbishop of St Andrew’s, III, 442, 445 f.

Hamilton, Mary, maid of honor to Catharine, Tsar Peter’s wife, her history, III, 382 f.;

agreements with the Scottish ballad, 383.

Hamilton, Mary, in the ballad, scorns the offer of life after having been put to public shame, III, 386, 388;

historical foundation for the ballad of Mary Hamilton (No 299), views of Andrew Lang, the affair of the Frenchman and the Queen’s apothecary, V, 298 f.

Hamiltons in Russia, III, 382 f.

Hanpang and Ho, Chinese story, II, 498.

Hans ohne Sorgen, tale, I, 408, and n., 409 n.

Hans Sachs, I, 196 a, 267; II, 40 n., 42; III, 258; V, 210.

Haraldr Harðráðr, III, 17.

Hardy, Spence, Manual of Buddhism, I, 11 n.

Harlaw, Battle of, ballad, III, 316 ff.

Harp, power of, I, 216 f., 439; II, 137, 139 f., 511 f.; V, 220 b, 293 a;

everybody harped to sleep but the king’s daughter, etc., I, 55; II, 137, 139 f.; V, 220 b;

all the lords harped asleep, IV, 18-21;

Quintalin’s harp decoys women, I, 50;

harp, viol, or fiddle made from drowned maid’s body, I, 121 f., 126-35;

or from tree into which the drowned girl had grown up, 121, 124, 493 b;

the instrument of itself, or when played upon, reveals that the girl was drowned by her sister, 122, 126-35.

Harpkin, I, 21.

Harribie (Harraby Hill, about a mile from Carlisle, formerly the place of execution), III, 463 f., 472.

Hass-Fru, Swedish tale, I, 461 n.

Hatherof==Athulf, Horn’s faithful friend, I, 192.

Hawk, riddle of: if not in good order, lady has been unfaithful, I, 191, and n.

Head, Halewijn’s, Roland’s, Gert Olbert’s, Jan Albert’s, Schön-Albert’s, speaks after it is cut off, I, 25, 26, 30, 49, 485 f.

Heads of men who have failed in an enterprise displayed on castle walls, or on palisades of stakes, with one place left, pour encourager les autres, I, 417 n.; II, 507 b; III, 507 a; IV, 459 b; V, 291 a (three stakes for three adventurers, V, 216).

Heads of thirty Portuguese sent home, salted, by Sir Andrew Barton, to be eaten with bread, IV, 502, 505.

Heart, lover’s heart cut out and sent to his mistress by her father, or husband, V, 29-38, 303;

the heart is sent cooked and is eaten by the lady, 31-34;

heart (stewed) of a girl given her husband by jealous wife, 34;

heart served by twelve husbands to their twelve wives, 34.

Hearts, children’s, man who had devoured nine would have power of flying, I, 34 n.

Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio, ix, 8, V, 13.

Heimir, V, 243 b.

Heinrich von dem Türlîn, Der Mantel, I, 259 f.;

Diu Crône, 264, 266, 279 a.

Heiðreks saga, V, 8.

Heinz der Kellner, his Turandot, I, 418 a; II, 507 b; V, 291 a.

Helgakviða Hjörvarðssonar, I, 94, and n.

Helgakviða Hundingsbana, II, I, 67, 94 f.; II, 228, 235; III, 306.

Helgi and Sigrún, II, 228, 235.

Heliodorus, Aethiopica, I, 270.

Hemingr and King Haraldr contend in feats: Hemingr shoots a nut from his brother’s head, III, 17 f., 518 b.

Hemings Þáttr, III, 17, 19 n.

Hemp-seed sown by girls on the eve of All-Hallows to obtain a sight of their true-love, V, 59, 286 a.

Henning Wulf’s apple-shot, III, 17.

Henri IV, La Partie de Chasse de, Collé’s drama, V, 75.

Henry V, of England, his conquest of France, ballad, III, 320 ff.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick, and his wife Gunild, II, 34-6.

Henry of Brunswick (Henry the Lion), Reinfrid of Brunswick, I, 194-6, 197 n., 459, 502 b.

Hereward the Saxon, III, 43, 109, 476 n.; V, 287 b.

Herod and St. Stephen, I, 233 ff.

Herodotus, I, 271; V, 212 b.

Herr Peder den rige, Scandinavian representative of Young Beichan, I, 459-61.

Der Herr von Falkenstein, tale, I, 459 n.

Hervarar saga, I, 405; II, 50 n., 127.

Das Herz, Das Herzmäre, rhymed tale of Konrad von Würzburg, V, 33, 303 b.

Herzog Ernst, I, 197 n.

Herzog Heinrich der Löw, Historia, of Hans Sachs, I, 196; V, 210.

Hey trollie lollie love is jolly, from a Yule medley, IV, 93.

Heykar, Geschichte des weisen, I, 11 n., 12 f.

Heywood’s Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels, I, 85.

Hideous woman will answer questions for Arthur (or other), whose life is at stake if he does not give the right reply, only on condition of her marrying Gawain, or the young man who is in danger, I, 289, 291, 292, 294;

she turns into a beautiful young girl on being allowed to have her own way, 290, 291, 292, 295 f.;

hideous woman, magically transformed, restored to her proper beauty by being allowed to have her whole will, I, 293, 297-9;

hideous woman converted to beautiful one on being married to her will, I, 507 a.

See V, 289 b.

Highlander induces a Lowland lass to marry him in spite of the opposition of her parents, IV, 256-75, 524;

he pretends that his father is a shepherd, his mother a dey, etc., but after putting her to a severe trial turns out to be a gentleman of wealth and importance, a Macdonald, 255-66, 524 (Donald, Earl of the Isle of Skye, 271 f., 274 f.);

Highlander preferred by girl to Lowland man or English, IV, 267;

Highlander induces girl to go with him regardless of her father’s opposition, V, 165 f., 306.

Hildebrandslied, I, 196.

Hildesage, I, 94, and n., 95 n.

Hildina, in Shetland ballad, I, 94 n., 95 n.

Hill-king:

see Dwarf-king, Merman, Hind Etin.

Hill-maid promises man wonderful gifts if he will plight himself to her, I, 314, 375; III, 504 a; V, 214 b.

Hind to be spared by hunter, I, 178, 183, 502 a; II, 156 f.

Hind Etin represents the dwarf-king, elf-king, hill-king of Scandinavian and German ballads, I, 361: Hind Etin (Young Akin) seizes on a king’s daughter in a wood, keeps her seven years in a cave, where she bears seven sons; the eldest one day asks the father why his mother’s cheeks are always wet and learns her story; hearing music while hunting he is moved to take his mother and brother with him, and they come to the king’s gate; they are kindly received, the wood is searched for the father, who is found tearing his hair, and the family live happily at court.

See Dwarf-king, Merman.

Hirlanda, volksbuch, II, 33 n., 43 n.

Das Hirtenbüblein, tale, I, 410.

L’Histoire de Moradbak, I, 11 n.

L’Histoire de Palanus, Comte de Lyon, prose romance, II, 42.

Histoire de Sinkarib et de ses deux Visirs, I, 11 n.

Historia de Nativitate Mariae et de Infantia Salvatoris, II, 1, 2 n., 7.

De Historia van Florentina, etc., I, 268, 459 n.

Hjalmar, Odd and Anganty, II, 50.

Hjálmtérs ok Ölvers saga, I, 306 f., 315, 489 b.

Hobby Noble, chief in the rescue of John o the Side, III, 477-9;

helper, 479-83;

Hobie Noble betrayed to the English by Sim o the Mains, IV, 1.

Hobby-horse, III, 45, 47 f.

Hoccleve. See Occleve.

Hód, Hóde, the name, III, 47 n.

Holinshed, Chronicle of Scotland, II, 143; III, 2, 517.

Holofernes: Professor Bugge’s suggestion that the Halewyn ballad (No 4) is derived from his story, I, 51-54.

Home. See under Family Names.

Homer, Iliad, I, 84; III, 290 n., 306, 367;

Odyssey, I, 322 n., 338 n.; II, 441; III, 510 b; IV, 377;

Hymn to the Delian Apollo, I, 84.

Homildon, the battle of, alleged to have been “done” to requite the death of Percy in the Hunting of the Cheviot, III, 304, 310, 313 f.

Hood==Odin, I, 95;

old Carl Hood, I, 67, 92, 95, and n., 489; IV, 443 f.;

Auld palmer Hood, IV, 445;

Síðhöttr, Deephood, I, 95.

Hood, Thomas, his Lost Heir, III, 234 n.

Hoodening, Hood==Hooden==Woden (Kuhn), III, 48.

The Hoodie, Gaelic tale, I, 290 n., 503.

Horn of elfin-knight inspires maid with longing for him, I, 15-17, 55;

so Quintalin’s harp, 50;

boon of blowing on horn (often asked by man in difficulty or about to be executed, and often three blasts), III, 122 f., 125, 166, 182; V, 2-6, 8, 127 (pipes, V, 3);

see, also, III, 157; V, 279;

witch’s horn, I, 315; V, 215;

hornblower, hornblâse==witch, I, 314;

horn which will furnish any liquor that is called for, I, 266;

horn filled with pure water, the water turns to the best of wine, I, 263;

horn out of which no cuckold can drink, etc., I, 263 ff.;

horn and lease, tenure by, III, 360.

Horn, fastnachtspiel of the, I, 263.

Horn Childe and Maiden Rimnild, romance, I, 188, 191-3, 200, 269, 502 a; IV, 401; V, 287 b.

Horn et Rymenhild, French romance, I, 188, 190-3, 502 a.

Horn, Hind, ballad, I, 187 ff., etc.

Horn, King Horn, gest, I, 188-90, 192, 201 n.; IV, 401.

Horse, high-mettled, I, 199, and n.;

horse shod with silver before and gold behind, I, 341; II, 183, 185, 191, 194, 266 f., 315, 343 f.; V, 224;

horse, old white cut-tail preferred to a choice among thirty fine steeds, II, 444 f., 450, 453 f.;

Walter of Aquitaine’s worn-out charger, II, 441; III, 276.

Horses stabled by knights in hall or bed-room, II, 51, 54, 510 f.; III, 508 a;

horses’ shoes reversed to deceive pursuers, III, 476 n., 479 f., 487, 489;

youth torn by four wild horses on the false charge of a woman, V, 157;

patrons of horses, St. Stephen, St. Eloi, St. Antony, I, 235 f.

Horsley, William, a bowman employed by Lord Howard against Andrew Barton, III, 339, 341-3, 345, 348-50; IV, 503, 505-7.

Host, the consecrated.

See Communion-bread.

House of Marr, IV, 157;

of the Rhodes, III, 433;

of Rothes, V, 247 f.

Housekeeping: lady’s preparations to receive her husband, IV, 312-17, 319 f.; V, 270 f., 301.

How Fraud made entrance into Russia, Russian tale, IV, 459 b.

How long and dreary is the night, air, IV, 302.

How the King of Estmure land married the King’s Daughter of Westmure land, title in The Complaint of Scotland, II, 51 n., 296.

Howard. See under Family Names.

Howard, Katherine, said to have exerted herself to procure Thomas Cromwell’s death, III, 377.

Hrafn and Gunnlaugr, V, 298 a.

Hrólfs saga Kraka, I, 290 n., 297 n., 393, 489.

Hrómundar saga, I, 67, 95.

Hugdietrich, II, 50; IV, 463 b.

Huon de Bordeaux, I complementi della chanson d’, I, 502 a.

Hugh Spencer, the ballad, resembles in a general way Russian bylinas, III, 276; IV, 499.

See Spenser.

Hugh Willoughby, a comrade of Hugh Spencer, III, 279 f.

Hugo, Emperor of Greece, Charlemagne’s visit to, I, 275-9.

Hume.

See under Family Names.

Hume of Godscroft’s History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, III, 292; V, 202.

Hunt, an English captain, released on oath by Sir A. Barton, joins Lord Howard in an attack on the Scot, trusting that God will forgive his perjury, III, 340; IV, 504.

Hunter’s (J.) identification of Adam Bell, III, 21 f.;

of Robin Hood, III, 55 f.

Hunting of the Cheviot has the battle of Otterburn for its foundation, III, 304.

Hyacinthus, flower from his blood, I, 99.

Hysmine and Hysminias of Eustathius (Eumathius), I, 270; II, 13 n.

Hystoria de la reyna Sebílla, Spanish tale, II, 40.

I cannot eat but little meat, song in Gammer Gurton’s Needle, V, 132 n.

I have a good old woman (wife) at home, tunes, III, 518.

I have a ȝong suster fer beȝondyn the se, riddle song, I, 415.

I have four sisters beyond the sea, riddle song, I, 415 n.

I sowed the seeds of love, song, V, 258 f.

Il’ja of Murom, captain of the march-keepers, will allow no one to pass; has a fight with a young man who passes nevertheless; is worsted at first: cf. Robin Hood and the Potter, IV, 497 a.