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# XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.

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XXXIII. the Laidly Worm. of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 15 sentences and 163 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/pg7439/83/1/) — \_Source\_.--From an eighteenth-century ballad of the Rev. Mr. Lamb of Norham, as given in Prof.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/2/) — Child's \_Ballads\_; with a few touches and verses from the more ancient version “Kempion.”
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/3/) — A florid prose version appeared in \_Monthly Chronicle of North Country Lore\_ for May 1890.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/4/) — I have made the obvious emendation of
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/5/) — O quit your sword, unbend your bow
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/6/) — for
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/7/) — O quit your sword, and bend your bow.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/8/) — \_Parallels\_.--The ballad of “Kempe Owein” is a more general version which “The Laidly Worm” has localised near Bamborough.
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/9/) — We learn from this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owain, the Welsh hero who flourished in the ninth century.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/10/) — Childe Wynd therefore = Childe Owein.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/11/) — The “Deliverance Kiss” has been studied by Prof.
- [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/12/) — Child, \_l.c.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/13/) — \_, i. 207.
- [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/14/) — A noteworthy example occurs in Boiardo's \_Orlando Inamorato\_, cc. xxv., xxvi.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/83/15/) — \_Remarks\_.--It is perhaps unnecessary to give the equations “Laidly Worm = Loathly Worm = Loathsome Dragon,” and “borrowed = changed.”

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