[wintemberg] lord LOVEL AND LADY NANCY 33 



King Mark plants a grape-vine over Tristan and a rose over Isolde/ 

 and their roots grow down into the hearts of the lovers and the stems 

 twine together.^ 



Brewer (Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, sub voce "Ysolde"), 

 says that the lovers were buried in one grave and the rose-bush and 

 the vine which were planted on it "intermingled their branches as 

 they grew up that no man could separate them." 



In a Servian ballad, a rose is planted on the grave of the maiden 

 and a vine on the man's, and these embrace as if they were the lovers.' 



A thorn and an olive, according to a Norman ballad, are planted 

 over the graves, the thorn embraces the olive,* and the wood of these 

 trees is used to build a church. 



In a version of "Le due Tombe," an Italian song, a pomegranate 

 is planted on the man's grave and a hazel on the other." According 

 to another version of the same song, an almond tree, planted on the 

 girl's grave, is cut down. 



The Wends have a song in which a maiden, before killing herself 

 after the death of her lover, orders two grape vines to be planted 

 on their graves. The vines intertwine.® 



Child, citing some Russian songs in which the trees appear to 

 have been planted, is not altogether clear. For instance, he says 

 "laburnum'^ over Basil and cypress over Sophia, which intertwine." 

 The others cited in the same note may also have been planted.* 



In a White-Russian song the loVer is buried in the church and the 

 maid in the ditch. A plane and a linden are planted on their graves, 

 the plane pierces the wall of the church and embraces the linden.^ 

 A green oak and a white birch are planted on the graves of two lovers 

 who have been buried one in and the other near the church. The 

 trees touch. ^° 



1 Ulrich von Thurheim, w. 3546-50, and Heinrich von Freiberg, w. 6819-41 

 (in von der Hagen's edition of Gottfried of Strasbourg's Tristan), according to Child 

 (I, p. 98), wrongly make the king plant the rose over Tristan and the vine over 

 Isolde. 



2 Child (1,98) citing Eilhart von Oberge (Strasbourg and London, 1877), Busching 

 and von der Hagen (Berlin, 1809). 



3 Ibid., (II, 489) citing Karadschitsch (Berlin, 1854). 



* Puymaigre, op. cit., p. 189, citing Beaurepaire (Avranches and Paris, 1856). 



» Child (VI, 493) citing Nigra. 



6 Ihid., (I, 97) citing Haupt and Schmaler (Grimma, 1841, 1843). 



^ Corrected to silver willow in Part IV, p. 498. 



« Child (II, 489) citing Hilferding, (St. Petersburg, 1873). 



» Karlowicz, op. cit., 39, citing a MS. 



1° Ibid., citing Zbior wiado. etc. (Cracow, 1889). 



