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ein schottisches Märchen oder Volkslied, das Mrs. Grant in ihren essays on the superstitions of the highlanders of Scotland, London 1811. vol. 1, 285, 286. erzählt. Sie sagt: »one of these (stories) which I have heard sung by children at a very early age, and which is just to them the Babes in the wood, I can never forget. The affecting simplicity of the tune, the strange wild imagery and the marks of remote antiquity in the little narrative, gave in the greatest interest to me, who delight in tracing back poetry to its infancy.«
Ausgewählte Ausgaben von
Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812-15)
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