rest in consecrated ground? If so, let it be . . . . .' At that moment the irons dropped off, and he died. The people buried him in the path, outside the north wall of the church; but the wall fell down each night, until it was so built as to include the outlaw's grave. The crosses on the roof of the parish church are said to be made of Ebbe's fetters, which for a long time hung inside the sacred building." Cf. J. Allvin, Beskrifning öfver Vestbo härad, p. 147. The same story, with some slight difference, is current in Halland.[1] A comparison between this and the wild Finnish story is not without interest, as shewing the humanising influence which has toned down the rude and rugged teaching of the early ages.
Cf. Campbell, Tales of the Western Highlands, p. 19: "The Inheritance."
Baring Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. "The Mountain of Venus," p. 213.
Grimm, vol. ii. p. 366. "The Three Green Twigs."
Merényi, Tales from the Banks of the Danube, vol. ii. p. 7, in Hungarian.
There is an interesting Lapp variant, "Fattiggutten, Fanden og Guldbyen." Friis, p. 161.
THE LAMB WITH THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Kriza, ix.
Cf. Round the Yule Log. "Hans, who made the Princess laugh," p. 269.
Grimm, vol. ii. "The Jew among the Thorns," p. 97 and Notes, p. 410, in which the Jew is compelled to dance to the sound of the fiddler.
Engel's Musical Myths, vol. ii. "The Indefatigable Fidler," p. 29, and the "Ratcatcher of Hamelin," p. 37. (Also, Baring Gould's Curious Myths, p. 417.)
Griechische und Albanische Märchen, von J. G. von Hahn, Leipzig, 1864, vol. i. p. 222, and vol. ii. p. 240.—Ladislaus Arany. "The Sad Princess" (in Hungarian). Gaal, vol. iii. "The Powerful Whistle."
- ↑ A division of South Sweden washed by the Skaggerack and Kattegat.
