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Volksk." vol. ii. p. 415, quoting Vernaleken. Niederhöffer, vol. iv. p. 130; Bartsch, vol. i. p. 278; Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 56, quoting Müllenhoff; Birlinger, "Volksthümliches," vol. i. p. 103; Grimm, "Tales," vol. ii. p. 77.
Keightley, p. 261; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 93. Jahn, p. 72; Keightley, p. 275, quoting Müller, "Bilder und Sagen aus der Schweiz," p. 119; Birlinger, "Volksthümliches," vol. i. p. 42; Kuhn, p. 82; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 128; vol. iii. p. 54, quoting Müllenhoff, "Sagen, &c., der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg"; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 173; Wratislaw, p. 40; Wenzig, p. 198; Liebrecht, p. 100, citing "Results of a Tour in Dardistan", part iii. p. 3.
In more recent years several good editions have appeared, the most noteworthy being that of Boxberger and Birlinger, published as a part of Kuerschner's Deutsche National-Litteratur, 12 vols., Stuttgart, 1882-91; that of L. Bellermann, Kritisch durchgesehene und erlaeuterte Ausgabe, 14 vols., Leipzig, 1895 ff., and the latest of the critical Cotta editions, completed in 16 vols. in 1894.
Birlinger, "Volkst." vol. i. pp. 3, 5. Aubrey, "Miscellany," p. 149. Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 128; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 280. The latter is the version still found as traditional. Its details are not so full, and are in some respects different. Thorpe, vol. ii. pp. 15, 14, apparently quoting Faye. Dr. Geo.
See my article on the "Meddygon Myddfai," entitled "Old Welsh Folk Medicine," "Y Cymmrodor," vol. ix. p. 227. A certain German family used to excuse its faults by attributing them to a sea-fay who was reckoned among its ancestors; Birlinger, "Aus Schwaben," vol. i. p. 7, quoting the "Zimmerische Chronik." Namely, her husband's father, whose name she was not permitted by etiquette to utter.
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