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In the Breton ballad, "The Lord Nann and the Fairy" two oaks 

 rise from the tomb of a man and his wife the night after their burial.^ 



Two Swedish ballads speak of a linden growing from each of 

 two graves, made east and west of the church; the trees meet over 

 the church roof.^ 



Two rose-bushes spring from the graves, in a Danish song.^ 

 In others, the plants are lilies, and, in one instance, they interlock 

 over the roof of the church.^ 



In a Norwegian ballad, the lovers are buried north and south 

 of the church, and lilies grow from their graves, over the roof.^ 



In three variants of the German song "Der Ritter und die Maid," 

 the lovers are buried in one grave; three pinks spring from this grave, 

 three lilies from another, and two lilies from a third .^ 



In a Spanish ballad, two olive trees (oUvera y oliverâ) come from 

 the grave, and join when grown tall.'' 



Two pines spring from a grave, in a Portuguese ballad.^ 



In a Servian song, the two intertwining trees are pines.^ 



Karlowicz cites a Little-Russian ballad in which plane trees grow 

 from the graves. ^° 



In "Mem and Zin," a Kurdish poem of 1652-53, two rose bushes 

 grow on the graves of two lovers, the branches of which intertwine." 



Haxthausen gives an outline of an Armenian poem in which the 

 fire of passion glows so intensely within two reunited lovers that at 

 last it bursts into flames and they are burnt to ashes, which are 

 collected by some friendly hand and buried in one grave, from which 

 at length spring up and blossom two rose bushes with their branches 

 inclining toward one another and seeking to unite, "but a thorny 

 branch, ^2 growing up between them, separates them forever. "^^ 



^ Taylor, Tom, Ballads and Songs of BrtUany, (translated from the Barsaz Briez 

 of Vicomte H. de Villemarqué (Paris, 1867), (London and New York, n.d.). Also 

 cited by Child (II, p. 379, 489). 



2 Child (I, 96) citing Arwidsson (Stockholm, 1834-42), and Wigstrom. 



» Ibid., (I, 96) citing Danske Viser. 



* Ibid., (I, 96 and VIII, 443) citing Kristensen. 



6 Ibid., (I. 96) citing Landstad (Christiana, 1853). 



6 Ibid., (I, 97— Nicolai and Kretzschmer— , I, 96-97— Uhland, Simrock, Erk, 

 Hoffman and Richter). 



-' Ihd., (II, 489), citing Milâ. 



8 Ibid., (VI, 498) citing Romero (Lisbon, 1883). 



» Ibid., (II, 489) citing Karadshitch. 



1" Karlowicz in Mélusine, IV, 88, citing Zbior wiado. (Cracow, 1877.) 



^^ Child (I, 98) citing Bulletin de la classe des Sciences historiques . . . de St. 

 Pétersbourg. 



^^ Difference of creed. 



"Haxthausen, Baron von, Transcaucasia (London, 1854), p. 351. 



