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LEGENDS, part 8 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/) **2** [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/page/3/) - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/101/) — Hyphenation has been made consistent throughout, without note. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/102/) — The author uses some alternative spellings--for example, "arn't" rather than "aren't", "dulness" rather than "dullness", both "shan't" and "sha'n't"--which have been left unchanged. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/103/) — There are also some unusual grammatical structures in places, which probably result from the author's intention to render the translations as literally as possible. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/104/) — These have also been left unchanged. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/105/) — The remaining amendments are listed below. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/106/) — All were checked against a later edition of the book that had been retypeset, and references to other works were additionally checked against online library catalogues. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/107/) — In the case of proper names, the amendments were based on other available occurrences of the name in the text. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/108/) — Page 9--Khudyayof amended to Khudyakof--"KHUDYAKOF (I.A.). ..." - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/109/) — Page 9, footnote \[7\]--1 amended to i--"... - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/110/) — Afanasief," i. No. 2, ..." - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/111/) — Page 10--Karadjich amended to Karajich--"The name "Karajich" refers to the ..." - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/112/) — Page 10--Tale amended to Tales--"... the "Popular Tales of the West Highlands," 4 vols. ..." - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/113/) — Page 14--page reference for The Shroud amended from 351 to 311. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/114/) — Page 14--page reference for The Dog and the Corpse amended from 316 to 317. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/115/) — Page 16--medieval amended to mediaeval--"... a blurred transcript of a page of mediaeval history ..." - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/116/) — Page 20, footnote \[13\]--Helen amended to Helena--"... the close of the story of Helena the Fair ..." - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/117/) — Page 32--bare amended to bore--"Well, the mistress bore a son ..." - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/118/) — Page 37--garveyard amended to graveyard--"I'll go to the graveyard, ..." - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/119/) — Page 37--pack amended to back--"... and hobbled back again ..." - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/120/) — Page 41--rubles amended to roubles--"... he had gained a hundred and fifty thousand roubles ..." - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/121/) — Page 42, footnote \[37\]--Nicola's amended to Nicholas's--"In another story St. Nicolas's picture is the surety." - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/122/) — Page 44, footnote \[41\]--Dei amended to Die--"Die kluge Bauerntochter" - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/123/) — Page 45--crouched amended to couched--"... couched in terms of the utmost severity ..." - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/124/) — Page 49--alternation amended to alteration--"... how little alteration it may undergo." - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/125/) — Page 54, footnote \[54\]--chortevnok amended to chortenok--"... - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/126/) — (\_chortenok\_ = a little \_chort\_ or devil) ..." - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/127/) — Page 55--Golovh amended to Golova--"\_Golova\_ = head" - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/128/) — Page 59--the author uses the statement, "The folk-tales of all lands delight to gird at misers and skinflints ...". - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/129/) — While gird does not seem to be the right word in this context, it's unclear what the author really intended--possibly gibe?--so it is left as printed. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/130/) — Page 80, footnote \[77\]--Afansief amended to Afanasief--"... - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/131/) — \_i.e.\_, says Afanasief ..." - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/132/) — Page 83, footnote \[83\]--Wissenchaften amended to Wissenschaften--"... - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/133/) — Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften ..." - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/134/) — Page 92--Maehrchen amended to Maerchen--"... - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/135/) — Schleicher's "Litauische Maerchen" ..." - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/136/) — Page 97, footnote \[101\]--Afansief amended to Afanasief--"Afanasief, viii. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/137/) — No. 8. ..." - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/138/) — Page 98--gronnd amended to ground--"The Eagle smote upon the ground ..." - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/139/) — Page 101--Is it amended to It is--"It is possible to sow wheat, ..." - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/140/) — Page 104--me amended to met--"Presently there met him a lioness ..." - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/141/) — Page 104--omitted 'I' added--"... so hungry, I feel quite unwell!" - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/142/) — Page 109, footnote \[108\]--No. 20o amended to No. 20--"Khudyakof, No. 20." - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/143/) — Page 110--faries amended to fairies--"... a lake in which fairies of the swan-maiden ..." - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/144/) — Page 113, footnote \[114\]--chigunnova amended to chugunnova--"\_Do chugunnova kamnya\_, to an iron stone." - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/145/) — Page 120, footnote \[128\]--Siebenbuegen amended to Siebenbuergen--"... - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/146/) — Deutsche Volksmaerchen aus dem Sachsenlande in Siebenbuergen ..." - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/147/) — Page 123, footnote \[136\]--Professer amended to Professor--"... referred to by Professor Benfey ..." - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/148/) — Page 123, footnote \[136\]--Egyptain amended to Egyptian--"... parallel to part of the Egyptian myth ..." - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/149/) — Page 126--nto amended to into--"Then in a moment they rolled themselves into ..." - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/150/) — Page 129, footnote \[142\]--Rusalk amended to Rusalka--"For a description of the Rusalka ..." - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/151/) — Page 138, footnote \[146\]--traslated amended to translated--"The word here translated ..." - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/152/) — Page 143, footnote \[148\]--Afansief amended to Afanasief--"Afanasief, v. No. 28. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/153/) — In the preceding story ..." - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/154/) — Page 146, footnote \[160\]--the word "jenzi" is repeated. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/155/) — Probably one of the occurrences had a diacritical mark which was not reproduced in this edition; it has been left as printed. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/156/) — Page 153--foul's amended to fowl's--"... twirling round on "a fowl's leg. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/157/) — "" - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/158/) — Page 160--By-and-bye amended to By-and-by--"By-and-by she put out the lights ..." - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/159/) — Page 167, footnote \[194\]--government amended to Government--"From the Poltava Government." - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/160/) — Page 170, footnote \[204\]--Afansief amended to Afanasief--"Afanasief, vii. - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/161/) — No. 18." - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/162/) — Page 170, footnote \[205\]--Sanscrit amended to Sanskrit--"... answering to the Sanskrit ..." - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/163/) — Page 171, footnote \[206\]--Voronej amended to Voroneje--"From the Voroneje Government." - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/164/) — Page 172, footnote \[208\]--Shazka amended to Skazka--"... the Skazka for that of witch ..." - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/165/) — Page 172--Ivaschechko amended to Ivashechko (verse following "... called to her son")--"Ivashechko, Ivashechko, my boy ..." - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/166/) — Page 177--servants-maids amended to servant-maids--"... the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids ..." - [167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/167/) — Page 177, footnote \[214\]--Id. amended to Ibid.--"Ibid. - [168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/168/) — No. 52." - [169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/169/) — Page 179--woman amended to women--"... where two old women were sewing ..." - [170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/170/) — Page 190--in amended to it--"... there is no occasion to dwell upon it here." - [171](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/171/) — Page 208, footnote \[255\]--Rhudyakof amended to Khudyakof--"Khudyakof, No. 166." - [172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/172/) — Page 213--plating amended to plaiting--"... sat a moujik plaiting a bast shoe." - [173](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/173/) — Page 214--alloting amended to allotting--"... when God was allotting their shares ..." - [174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/174/) — Page 215, footnote \[267\]--i.i. amended to ii.--"Afanasief, \_P.V.S. - [175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/175/) — \_, ii. - [176](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/176/) — 226." - [177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/177/) — Page 217, footnote \[271\]--Borichesky amended to Borichefsky--"Quoted from Borichefsky ..." - [178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/178/) — Page 218--withen amended to within--"... when he came within a few versts of the sea-shore ..." - [179](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/179/) — Page 225--superfluous 'to' removed before "out to merry-makings" - [180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/180/) — Page 228--put amended to puts--"... the girl puts on the robes, and appears ..." - [181](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/181/) — Page 233--n amended to in--"... went out one day to walk in the garden." - [182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/182/) — Page 233--omitted 'a' added--"... hiding him behind a number of cushions, ..." - [183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/183/) — Page 241--Brynhildr amended to Brynhild--"... who bear so great a resemblance to Brynhild ..." - [184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/184/) — Page 252, footnote \[321\]--omitted roman i. reference added--"See A. de Gubernatis, "Zool. - [185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/185/) — Mythology," i. 181." - [186](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/186/) — Page 255--euough amended to enough--"That's no go, sure enough!" - [187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/187/) — Page 257--t amended to it--"If the Princess found it out, ..." - [188](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/188/) — Page 260, footnote \[326\]--omitted word 'Cox' added--"... by G. W. Cox ..." - [189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/189/) — Page 261, footnote \[328\]--Kullish amended to Kulish--"For a little-Russian version see Kulish ..." - [190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/190/) — Page 262--shaskas amended to skazkas--"But skazkas tell that ..." - [191](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/191/) — Page 276--the amended to The--"The fiend disappears howling, ..." - [192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/192/) — Page 276, footnote \[363\]--Maerchensammlung amended to Maehrchensammlung--"Brockhaus's "Maehrchensammlung des Somadeva Bhatta" ..." - [193](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/193/) — Page 277--dont amended to don't--"... from your psalter and don't look behind ..." - [194](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/194/) — Page 286--of amended to off--"Do you drive off with the coffin, ..." - [195](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/195/) — Page 288, footnote \[368\]--Gessellschaft amended to Gesellschaft--"... - [196](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/196/) — Koenigl. - [197](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/197/) — Saechs. - [198](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/198/) — Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften ..." - [199](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/199/) — Page 291--sportman amended to sportsman--"... a sportsman finds in a forest ..." - [200](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/63/200/) — Page 313, footnote \[407\]--Geoethe amended to Goethe--"... 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