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myth of Thor. Miillenhoff disentangled the primitive mythical 

 Teutonic saga upon which the minstrel based his story {Dent. Alter- 

 tumskunde, i, 32). L. Beer {Beitrlige, 13, i) opposed the conclu- 

 sions of Miillenhoff, which, however, were reasserted by F. Vogt in 

 Paul's Grund/'iss, ii, i, 67,, 64. 



Svend Grundtvig pointed out similarities of incident and con- 

 struction in Orendel and the Danish ballad (see page 232), and 

 finally Singer {Apollo7iius von Tyrus, pp. 3-33) has compared in 

 detail the three pieces, Orendel, Jourdain and the Danish ballad. 

 The relationship between Orendel and the Apollonius saga has been 

 farther discussed by Tardel {Untersuc/uutgen zur mittel hochdeut. 

 Spielmannspoesie , Schwerin, 1894). It is necessary for us to deal 

 connectedly with this singular group of widely separated yet curi- 

 ously united fables.^ 



In the French poem Jourdain' s parents have been murdered by 

 Fromont, and their lands taken from them. Jourdain is cared for 

 and educated by the faithful Renier. Fromont sends out two trai- 

 tors, to whom he promises five hundred pounds if they bring the 

 child to him. Here the likeness is closest to the old French prose 

 version in which Antyocus (Antioch) is a vassal of the father of 

 Apolonie. When the father is dead, Apolonie is reared by Trans- 

 qualeon, the provost (prevost) of Tarse. Antyocus oppresses his 

 subjects and is warned by his wife that the people may invoke Apol- 

 onie. Thereupon Antyocus sends out thirty men to lay hold upon 

 Apolonie, but he escapes all dangers (si loing que il fust perille). 

 The reward offered to him who shall bring Apollonius alive is in 

 some of the Latin MSS. 100 talents (Riese), and in others fifty. 

 In the Bohemian and Swedish prose versions it is 500 talents. 



Jourdain escapes the danger that menaces him, through the de- 

 vice and the devotion of Renier, who sacrifices his own child in his 

 stead'^ (Nyrop-Gorra, Storia delta epopea francese, 196). 



After a time, when Jourdain is well grown, he serves Fromont, 

 unrecognized by him, as a page, but Fromont hates him, for he re- 

 sembles his slain father (Girard). One day Jourdain carries a 



1 There is a very rare folks-book published in Paris in 1520 entitled, Les faitz 

 et proitesses du noble et vaillant ctieiialeir Jourdain de blaties filz de Girard 

 de hlaues lequel en son vinant conquesta plnsieurs royaulmes sur les Sarra- 

 zins. Paris, Michel le noir, 1520. 



^ In Timoneda's Patraniielo, No. 37, an only son is sacrificed to save a friend's 

 son. 



