Hi,

It's the same scene in Ribolt and Guldborg [from Danish Kaempe Viser p. 750]:

"Hald, hald, my Ribolt, dearest mine,
Now belt thy brand, for it's mair nor time.

"My youngest brither ye spare, O spare
To my mither the dowy news to bear;

"To tell o' the dead in this sad stour—
O wae, that ever she dochter bure!"

Whan Ribolt's name she nam'd that stound,
'Twas then that he gat his deadly wound.

However, in Lord Douglas no mention of the wound is made. William is just wounded but says nothing and even at the clear water denies the wound-- that stanza at the clear water (where he says the red/blood in the water is "nothing but the shadow of my scarlet cloak") is the only common stanza in Earl Brand and Lord Douglas.

Richie