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Thread #41633   Message #601824
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
01-Dec-01 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: Help: Seeking old Yorkshire ballad
Subject: RE: Help: Seeking old Yorkshire ballad
Thankyou, Magaret.  I somehow got the erroneous impression that Child had been consulted, so I didn't look at "Fragments".  There was quite the vogue for translating ballads in and out of each others' languages in those days; indeed, a translation of Our Goodman (Child 274 B in this case) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, published in 1798/90, actually gave rise to a series of traditional songs in France and doubtless other countries.

I can't help with a Danish text (or with the translation in Scott just at present, but that shouldn't be hard to find in a library), but there are two Norwegian sets at the  Norwegian Universities Documentation Project:

Den vonde stjukmori
Den vonde stjukmori