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" ' An thu sail marry a proud gunner. An a proud gunner I'm sure he'll be ; An the very first schot that ere he schoots, He'll schoot baith my young son and me. ' " Finally, in a ballad which tells how closely the singing of it is knit in with its very being, but which is only a frag- ment, we have the mortal woman yearning for her mortal baby from the exile of Elfland, whither she has been taken to nurse the elf-queen's bairn. The repetitions lead up to the queen's promise that when the bairn ...stands, the nurse may go back home. The musical opening stanzas have been already quoted above. * "Hind Etin, " another ballad of the union of mortal and elf, has suf- fered severely in tradition; in Scandinavian versions it is effective enough. Another group ^ deals simply with transformation by magic and the happy solution, if such is to be. Three of these are alike in essential features. "Kemp Owyne, " where incremental repetition is admirably used in the dis- enchanting process, tells how the kemp frees Dove Isabel 1 See p.
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