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the Goschen series. A genera! introduction to the ballad and its influence
on German literature may be obtained from W. Kayser, Geschichte der
deutschen Ballade, Berlin, 1936.

NOTE J

I have not been able to get satisfactory documents for narrative poetry
in Hungary, as our English libraries are not well stocked with Magyar
literary texts, Szilasi Bela's Hungarian Folk-Songs, Budapest, is entirely
lyrical. Out of 44 pieces given by H. Moller in Das Lied der Volker,
Mainz, only three are narratives which serve for comparison with those of
other countries; the rest are mostly lyrics. There are 37 folk-songs in
W. Tolnai, Ungarisches Lesebuch (Sammlung Goschen), Berlin-Leipzig,
1913, which are mostly lyrical. Authorities on international ballads have not
suggested that any important theme has originated among the Magyars,
and so I have ceased further inquiry, relying on the description given
by J. H. Schwicker, Geschichte der ungarischen Litteratur, Leipzig, 1899,
pp. 568-89: 'Die Volkspoesie und ihr Einfiuss*. My purpose is not so
much to describe Magyar ballads as to assign them their place in inter-
national traditional song; and that is undisputed. [I have later, by the
kindness of Mr. George Buday, been able to consult the admirable
Szekely Nepballaddk, Budapest, 1935, which Dr. G. Ortutay has edited,
and Mr. Buday has illustrated with striking woodcuts.]

NOTE K

Bohdan Zaleski (Waclaw z Oleska), Piesni Polskie i RusMe Ludu

Galicyjskiego, Lwow, 1833, divides his collection into * women's songs*
(476 pp.)> and 'men's songs' (38 pp.)- The latter are the true narratives,
The division, however, which was taken over from Karadzic, does not
seem relevant to Polish folk-song. To the fuller anthologies of later
editors I have, unfortunately, not been able to resort. R. Walter's
Dudelsack, Schalrnei und Geige: Polnische Volkslieder} Hamburg (no date),
with an epilogue by Dr. Lucjan Kamieiiski, helps to correct the impres-
sions one gets from Zaleski, but these may still be false in some important
particulars. There are 26 Polish songs included in H. Moller, Das Lied
der Volker. Specifically Galician songs recur in V. Antonovic and M.
Dragomanov, Istoriceskija Pesni Malorusskago Naroda, Kiev, 1874.

NOTE L

A lay song is called a 'daina', plural 'dainos* in Lithuanian, but *dalnas*
in Latvian. The word may be connected with the Rumanian 4doinas. If
means no more than 'song', but it must be distinguished from fgiesme* 4a
religious song3. No account is taken of religious songs in this essay. The
most useful collection of Lithuanian 'dainos' is G. H. F. Nesselmann
Litthauische Volkslieder, Berlin, 1853, but I have also consulted A.
Jusk6vic, Lietuviskos Ddjnos, Kazan, 1880-2, Rhesa, Dainos (ed. Fr.
Kurschat), Berlin, 1843, A. Leskien, Litauisches Lesebuch, Heidelberg,
1919 (17 'dainos'), &c. U. Katzenelenbogen's The Daina, Chicago* 1935*