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ballads are in S. Grundtvig's fzlensk Fornkvcedi (Copenhagen, 1854-8),
to which was added a second volume in 1859-85. The Faeroese ballads
were gathered by Grundtvig into his manuscript Corpus carminum fceroen-
sium (CCF), from which various extracts have been made. I have used
V. U. Hamrnershaimb's Ftewsk Anthologi (Copenhagen, 1886-91).

NOTE H

There is a handy one-volume edition of the English and Scottish Ballads,
edited by H. C. Sargent and G. L. Kittredge, Cambridge, Mass., 1904.
A. Quiller-Couch's Oxford Book of Ballads, Oxford, 1910, used some
:es not in Child, but in general goes to show that Child's selection is
nitive. The texts are for readers: eclectic. The leading student of the
broadside ballad has been Hyder E. Rollins, who has many valuable
editions to his credit. One, of an anthological nature, is Old English
Ballads (1553-1625), Cambridge, 1920. Sir C. Firth's essay on 'Ballads
and Broadsides' (Essays, Oxford, 1938; reprinted from Shakespeare's
England, 1916) shows how full Shakespeare's mind was of these catches.
R. L. Greene's Early English Carols, Oxford, 1935, is a study of an allied
literary form. A useful general account of ballad-poetry from the English
and American standpoints is G. H. Gerould's Ballad of Tradition, Oxford,
1932. Professor Gerould deals summarily—but sufficiently from the
standpoint of this book, with the new ballads of the negroes, cowboys, and
lumberjacks of America. Child's appeal for American material proved
fruitless. Olive Dame Campbell and C. J. Sharp's English Folk Songs from
the Southern Appalachians, New York, 1917, contained eighteen quite new
ballads, and was of the utmost importance from the musical standpoint.
The collection of ballads in Virginia, the Carolinas, Maryland, and even
in Maine and other states has been most vigorous. A reader who dips into
Dorothy Scarborough's A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains, New
York, 1937, will encounter not only ballads, but also an agreeable descrip-
tion of the sort of people who still sing them and believe in them. A
copious bibliography accompanies Professor Gerould's book.

NOTE I

L. Erk and F. Bohme, Deutscher Liederhort, Leipzig, 1893-5 J J- Meier,
Deutsche Volkslieder mit ihren Melodieni Balladen (3 fascicules have
appeared), Berlin and Leipzig, 1935-7. Except for the study of the history
of literature these publications render unnecessary the study of Herder,
Arnim and Brentano, Uhland, &c. They also include the Dutch and
Flemish evidence, which can be consulted best in Hofciann von Fallers-
leben, Niederldndische Volkslieder, Hannover, 1856 (Horce Belgicee, ii).
R. von Liliencron's Historische Volkslieder der Deutschen, Leipzig,
1865—9, contains a great many historical poems for which there is little or
no evidence of traditional transmission; those relevant to our study have
been gathered into Erk-Bohme. F. Arnold's Das deutsche Volkslied,
Prenzlau, 1927, is a really useful anthology and introduction; so is also
J. Sahr's Das deutsche Volkslied, ed. P. Sartori, Berlin and Leipzig, 1924, in