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# XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway

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XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 14 sentences and 181 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself.

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- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/1/) — \_Source.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/2/) — \_--Chambers's \_Popular Rhymes of Scotland\_, much Anglicised in language, but otherwise unaltered.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/3/) — \_Parallels.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/4/) — \_--Chambers, \_l.c.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/5/) — \_, gave a variant with the title "The Red Bull o' Norroway."
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/6/) — Kennedy, \_Legendary Fictions\_, p. 87, gives a variant with the title "The Brown Bear of Norway."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/7/) — Mr. Stewart gave a Leitrim version, in which "Norroway" becomes "Orange," in \_Folk-Lore\_ for June, 1893, which Miss Peacock follows up with a Lincolnshire parallel (showing the same corruption of name) in the September number.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/8/) — A reference to the "Black Bull o' Norroway" occurs in Sidney's \_Arcadia\_, as also in the \_Complaynt of Scotland\_, 1548.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/9/) — The "sale of bed" incident at the end has been bibliographised by Miss Cox in her volume of variants of \_Cinderella\_, p. 481.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/10/) — It probably existed in one of the versions of \_Nix Nought Nothing\_ (No. vii.).
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/11/) — \_Remarks.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/12/) — \_--The Black Bull is clearly a Beast who ultimately wins a Beauty.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/13/) — But the tale as is told is clearly not sufficiently motivated.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/39/14/) — Miss Peacock's version renders it likely that a fuller account may yet be recovered in England.

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