Note 6 — Chapter XII

Cp. the way in which the Ritter Malegis transmutes Reinold in the story of Die Heimonskinder (Simrock’s Deutsche Volksbücher, Vol. II, p. 86). “He changed him into an old man, a hundred years of age, with a decrepit and misshapen body, and long hair.” See also p. 114. So Merlin assumes the form of an old man and disguises Uther and Ulfin, Dunlop’s History of Fiction, translated by Liebrecht, p. 66.