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# XXII. Story of Ivan.

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XXII. Story of Ivan. of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs: the whole text, 11 sentences and 225 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/pg7885/56/1/) — \_Source\_.--Lluyd, \_Archaeologia Britannia\_, 1707, the first comparative Celtic grammar and the finest piece of work in comparative philology hitherto done in England, contains this tale as a specimen of Cornish then still spoken in Cornwall.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/2/) — I have used the English version contained in \_Blackwood's Magazine\_ as long ago as May 1818.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/3/) — I have taken the third counsel from the Irish version, as the original is not suited \_virginibus puerisque\_, though harmless enough in itself.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/4/) — \_Parallels\_.--Lover has a tale, \_The Three Advices\_.
- [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/5/) — It occurs also in modern Cornwall \_ap.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/6/) — \_ Hunt, \_Drolls of West of England\_, 344, "The Tinner of Chyamor."
- [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/7/) — Borrow, \_Wild Wales\_, 41, has a reference which seems to imply that the story had crystallised into a Welsh proverb.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/8/) — Curiously enough, it forms the chief episode of the so-called "Irish Odyssey" ("\_Merugud Uilix maiec Leirtis\_"--"Wandering of Ulysses M'Laertes").
- [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/9/) — It was derived, in all probability, from the \_Gesta Romanorum\_, c. 103, where two of the three pieces of advice are "Avoid a byeway," "Beware of a house where the housewife is younger than her husband."
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/10/) — It is likely enough that this chapter, like others of the \_Gesta\_, came from the East, for it is found in some versions of "The Forty Viziers," and in the \_Turkish Tales\_ (see Oesterley's parallels and \_Gesta\_, ed.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/56/11/) — Swan and Hooper, note 9).

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