Chapter I · A Review.
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I should be the last to deny the necessity of treating narrative themes each for itself, and I have nothing but admiration for the general conduct of Hippe’s investigation; but I wish to show that his methods, and therefore his results, are at fault in so far as he does not recognize the nature of the combinations into which The Grateful Dead enters. Traces of other stories, unless their presence is obviously artificial, must be carefully considered, since in dealing with cycles of such fluid stuff as folk-tales it is certainly wise to give each element due consideration. Certain minor errors in Hippe’s article will be mentioned in due course, though my constant obligations to it must be emphasized here.
In this brief review I have touched only on such studies of The Grateful Dead as have materially enlarged the knowledge of the subject or have attempted a discussion of the theme in a broad way. In the following chapter reference will be made to other works, in which particular versions have been printed or summarized.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · 1856.Note 2 · Guter Gerhard, as will be seen later, does not follow the theme at all.Note 3 · P. 114.Note 4 · 1859, i. 219–221.Note 5 · Ghost-Thanks or The Grateful Unburied, A Mythic Tale in its Oldest European Form, Sir Amadace, 1860.Note 6 · P. 9.Note 7 · P. 7.Note 8 · Germania, iii. 199–210, xii. 55 ff.; Or. u. Occ. ii. 322–329, iii. 93–103; Arch. f. slav. Phil. ii. 631–634, v. 40 ff.; Gonzenbach, SicilianNote 9 · Heidelberger Jahrbücher der Lit. 1868, lxi. 449–452, 1872, lxv. 894 f.; Germania, xxiv. 132 f.Note 10 · P. 449.Note 11 · Altbayerischer Sagenschatz zur Bereicherung der indogermanischen Mythologie, 1876, pp. 678–689.Note 12 · Contes populaires de Lorraine, i. 214, 215.Note 13 · Archiv f. d. Stud. d. neueren Sprachen, lxxxi. 141–183.Note 14 · P. 167. “Ein Jüngling zeigt sich menschenfreundlich gegen die Leiche eines Unbekannten (indem er dieselbe vor Schimpf bewahrt, bestattet, etNote 15 · See p. x. above.Note 16 · P. 180.Note 17 · See his scheme on p. 181.Note 18 · Der Dank des Todten in der englischen Literatur, Jahresbericht der Staats-Oberrealschule in Troppau, 1894.Note 19 · Marburg diss. 1894, pp. 43–63.Note 20 · Folk-Lore, ix. 226–244 (1898).Note 21 · Since the appearance of Hippe’s study no one has treated The Grateful Dead with such scope as to modify his conclusions. Perhaps the most inNote 22 · I have to thank the kindness of Professor Leo Wiener for my knowledge of the content of Russian V. and VI., which he was good enough to tranNote 23 · What the two Bohemian variants contain, which are mentioned by Benfey, Pantschatantra, i. 221, note, by Stephens, p. 10, by Köhler, GermaniaNote 24 · On pp. 194–201 is found a curious “Écho de l’histoire de Tobie.”Note 25 · Hippe’s first Lithuanian tale is a variant of The Water of Life and will be treated in another connection.Note 26 · Hippe speaks of “zwei spanische Romanzen.” Had he consulted the Spanish text or read Köhler’s note more attentively, he would have seen thatNote 27 · My attention was called to this variant by the kindness of Professor F. De Haan, and I was supplied with a first summary from the 1693 editiNote 28 · See Crane, Exempla of Jacques de Vitry, 1890, p. lxxxvi.Note 29 · P. Paris, Manuscrits françois, 1840, iii. 1, and Foerster, Richars li Biaus, 1874, p. xxvii, date it from the fifteenth century; Suchier, OeNote 30 · P. Paris, place cited, and Foerster, place cited, say the sixteenth century, but Wilhelmi, place cited, the fifteenth.Note 31 · See Wilhelmi, p. 43.Note 32 · Foulché-Delbosc, pp. 589, 590.Note 33 · Work cited, pp. 587, 588.Note 34 · Place cited.Note 35 · My attention was first called to this story by the kindness of Professor A. C. L. Brown.Note 36 · An edition with an almost identical title “Printed and sold by Larkin How, in Petticoat Lane,” of which a copy is in the Harvard College libNote 37 · My attention was called to this variant by the kindness of Professor Kittredge.Note 38 · Russian V.1Note 39 · The following list of variants of The Grateful Dead includes only such tales as have the fundamental traits, as sketched above, either expreNote 40 · Lydia Schischmánoff, Légendes religieuses bulgares, 1896, no. 77, pp. 202–209,3 “Le berger, son fils, et l’archange.”Note 41 · L. Geitler, Litauische Studien, 1875, pp. 21–23. Analyzed by Köhler, Arch. f. slav. Phil. ii. 633, and after him briefly by Hippe,4 p. 147, Note 42 · Duran, Romancero general, 1849–51, ii. 299–302, nos. 1291, 1292. Summarized by Köhler, Or. und Occ. ii. 323 f. and after him by Cosquin, ConNote 43 · Johannes Junior (Gobius), Scala Celi, 1480, under Elemosina. Gobius was born in the south of France and lived about the middle of the fourteNote 44 · An Old French romance known to exist in two manuscripts, the earlier dating from the fourteenth century,8 the later from about the end of thNote 45 · Olivier de Castille et Artus d’Algarbe, a French prose romance composed before 1472, according to Foulché-Delbosc (Revue hispanique, ix. 592Note 46 · Douglas Hyde, Beside the Fire. A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk-Stories, 1890, pp. 18–47, “The King of Ireland’s Son.”14 Mentioned by KittrNote 47 · Found without essential difference in several chapbooks, the earliest owned by the British Museum being entitled: The Second Part of | Jack Note 48 · Factor’s Garland.16