Malcolm --

Thank you for this early version -- and its translation! Although there is no link in *this* version between eating Elfin food and prophecy, it appeared somewhere between this and Child's version 37a (the apples remain the Devil's, but she feeds him with the bread and wine instead, which bestows the "gift" -- or curse, depending on your point of view).

It may be impossible to *know* whether this earliest version was sung or spoken, of course, but, using melody of the DigiTrad tunefile TOMRHYM, I *can* hear these lines fit to the music...