Megan- Thank you! Steve - That's helpful information, thank you. Child's text specifically cites Nattergalen ("Something of the successive changes of shape is met with in a Scandinavian ballad : 'Nattergalen,' Grundtvig, II, 168, No 57"), so I'm trying to stick as close to that information as possible, in order to not introduce more variables. I've found a few sources for that ballad online, but the discussion above has the best combination of text + translation I've seen.
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