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XXXVII. The Greek Princess And The Young Gardener

Sources.-Kennedy, Fireside Stories, pp.47-56.

Parallels- Campbell, West Highland Tales, lvi.; Mac Iain Direach, ii. 344-76. He gives other variants at the end. The story is clearly that of the Grimms' "GoIden Bird, No. 57. They give various parallels in their notes. Mrs.

Hunt refers to an Eskimo version in Raes White Sea Peninsula, called " Kuobba the Giant and the Devil.' But the most curious and instructive parallel is that afforded by the Arthurian Romance of Walewein (i.e., Gawain) now only extant in Dutch, which, as Professer W. P. Ker has pointed out in Folk-lore, v. 121, exactly corresponds to the popular tale, and thus carries it back in Celtdom to the early twelfth century at the latest.