Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Little has been done in the foregoing pages but to follow up some of the clues given by Suchier. The results of the enquiry are, and perhaps must be, inconclusive. Still, as affording a typical illustration of the development of a saga, they are not without a certain interest. If, as is often averred, the tale is a nature myth, it is to be hoped that folk - lore exp'erts will some day solve the problem of its origin and significance. Appendix. La filla del emperador Contasti. Prof. Suchier has begun to publish in Romania, under the title La ftllc sans mains, the results of his later researches in connection with the Constance saga. In Nov. 1901 (Romania XXX, pp. 519—538) appeared as the first instalment the text of the Catalan version La filla del emperador Contasti, which I have mentioned on p. 6, and designated (!o'). The MS. is of the 15th cent. Suchier considers the version to be derived from oral tradition. It is not difficult to assign Co a place in the table on p. 13. The father is a Roman emperor called Contasti, i. e. Constantine2), and there is no mutilation3) (Nos. 42, 43, 46). This definitely connects Co with the group 5, and excludes it from the mixed sub-group , in which the father is a king in Eastern Europe, and the heroine mutilates herself. In addition to the original incidents 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 20, 21, Co agrees with y in 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, and with 6 in 41, 42, 43, 46, 52, 58, 59, 64, i) The present number is Fonds espagnol 682, not 475. '-) He begins to reign in 396 A. D., the date of the division of the empire. 8) My statement on p. 18, n. 1 is due to a mistake. 73, 74. Further, 97 and 102 appear to connect it more particularly with 77. Unless the occurrence of 109 in Co is a mere coincidence, this trivial detail may per... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.