Note 11 — Chapter XII

For the vṛitam of the text I read kṛitam. Cp. this incident with Joseph’s adventure in the 6th story of the Sicilianische Märchen. He is sewn up in a horse’s skin, and carried by ravens to the top of a high mountain. There he stamps and finds a wooden trap-door under his feet. In the notes Dr. Köhler refers to this passage, Campbell No. 44, the Story of Sindbad and other parallels. Cp. also Veckenstedt’s Wendische Sagen, p. 124. See also the story of Heinrich der Löwe, Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. I, p. 8. Dr. Köhler refers to the story of Herzog Ernst. The incident will be found in Simrock’s version of the story, at page 308 of the IIIrd Volume of his Deutsche Volksbücher.