The Science of Fairy Tales / An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology

[156] ?Trans. Aberd. Eistedd.,? p. 227, quoting Waring's ?Recollections of Iolo Morganwg?; Black's ?Picturesque Guide to Wales? (1872), p. 279; Howells, p. 104; ?Iolo MSS.? (Llandovery, 1848), pp. 68, 454, quoting from papers attributed to the Rev. Evan Evans, and said to be, when copied by Iolo Morganwg, in the possession of Paul Panton, Esq., of Anglesea.

[157] Waldron, p. 68; ?F. L. Journal,? vol. vi. p. 164; Kennedy, p. 172, Lady Wilde, vol. i. p. 161.

[158] ?F. L. Journal,? vol. i. p. 193; Gerv. Tilb., Dec. ii. c. 12. See Mr. Nutt's remarks on these in his admirable ?Studies on the Legend of the Holy Grail? (London, 1888), pp. 123, 196.

[159] Grimm, ?Teut. Myth.? pp. 953, 955, 961; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 222, translating Thiele; Certeux et Carnoy, vol. i. p. 65.

[160] Grimm, ?Teut. Myth.,? p. 955; Kuhn und Schwartz, p. 217. See also Thorpe, vol. iii. p. 101, translating Kuhn und Schwartz, and Grimm.

[161] Kuhn und Schwartz, pp. 220, 222; Grimm, ?Teut. Myth.? pp. 953, 954.

[162] Meier, pp. 122, 123; Jahn, p. 248; Grimm, ?Teut. Myth.? p. 961; Thorpe, vol. ii. p. 91, from Afzelius. In an Austrian märchen the Sleeping Host is a host of serpents. The king slept on a crystal table in the centre. During the winter serpents are believed to sleep. In the spring the oldest serpent awakes and wakens the others, crying: ?It is time? (Vernaleken, p. 113).

[163] Grohmann, p. 10. Marko was a shepherd, who for a service rendered to a Vila was gifted by her with heroism, beauty, and other good fortune (Krauss, ?Volksgl.? p. 103).

[164] Grohmann, pp. 11, 13, 15.

[165] ?F. L. Record,? vol. iv. p. 67. Mr. Lach-Szyrma conjectures that the seven stars are the stars of Ursa Major.

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CHAPTER IX.