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# XXIII. Red Ettin.

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XXIII. Red Ettin. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 22 sentences and 269 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/pg7439/73/1/) — \_Source\_.--“The Red Etin” in Chambers's \_Pop.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/2/) — Rhymes of Scotland\_, p. 89.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/3/) — I have reduced the adventurers from three to two, and cut down the herds and their answers.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/4/) — I have substituted riddles from the first English collection of riddles, \_The Demandes Joyous\_ of Wynkyn de Worde, for the poor ones of the original, which are besides not solved.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/5/) — “Ettin” is the English spelling of the word, as it is thus spelt in a passage of Beaumont and Fletcher (\_Knight of Burning Pestle\_, i. 1), which may refer to this very story, which, as we shall see, is quite as old as their time.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/6/) — \_Parallels\_.--“The Red Etin” is referred to in \_The Complaynt of Scotland\_, about 1548.
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/7/) — It has some resemblance to “Childe Rowland,” which see.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/8/) — The “death index,” as we may call tokens that tell the state of health of a parted partner, is a usual incident in the theme of the Two Brothers, and has been studied by the Grimms, i. 421, 453; ii.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/9/) — 403; by Köhler on Campbell, \_Occ. u. Or.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/10/) — \_, ii.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/11/) — 119-20; on Gonzenbach, ii.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/12/) — 230; on Bladé, 248; by Cosquin, \_l.c.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/13/) — \_, i. 70-2, 193; by Crane, \_Ital.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/14/) — Pop.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/15/) — Tales\_, 326; and by Jones and Kropf, \_Magyar Tales\_, 329.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/16/) — Riddles generally come in the form of the “riddle-bride-wager” (\_cf.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/17/) — \_ Child, \_Ballads\_, i. 415-9; ii.
- [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/18/) — 519), when the hero or heroine wins a spouse by guessing a riddle or riddles.
- [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/19/) — Here it is the simpler Sphinx form of the “riddle task,” on which see Köhler in \_Jahrb. rom.
- [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/20/) — Phil.
- [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/21/) — \_, vii.
- [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/73/22/) — 273, and on Gonzenbach, 215.

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