Note 42 — Chapter V · The Grateful Dead and The Ransomed Woman.
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It will be seen that this variant does not differ in essentials from those previously summarized, though its details exactly coincide with none of them. The order of events is normal, very like that of Lithuanian II., for example, yet it has marks of peculiarity. Chief among these are the events connected with the ransom of the lady and the parable by which she introduces her long lost husband to court. The first is a trait borrowed from the Perseus and Andromeda motive,42 the second is the same as the riddle in Jean de Calais IX.43 How this latter feature should happen to appear in these two widely separated variants and nowhere else I am not wise enough to explain.