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CHAPTER VIII

Grimbard’s Embassage.

P. 52. Lrmelin. Not named in Rein. Hermeline in
Ren.

P. 54. Reynardine, Rossel. In en, there are three sons,
Malebranche, Percehaie, and Rousel. In Jey. there are
two, named Reinerdin and Rossel. The fox is named the
Russet Dog by the Scotch peasantry.

CHAPTER IX

Reynard’s Confession. en. dr. VII. This is one of the
incidents that have caused the book to be regarded as a
satire upon monks, to which some of its popularity in
Protestant Germany is due.

P. 56. Bind his feet to a bell-rope. Told at length in
Ren. br. VIII. In some of the medieval Latin fables the
wolf sings in church. In two French folk-tales, collected
by Bladé, this is turned into pulling the bell-rope, as in the
Reynard, from which this touch was probably derived
(see Sudre, pp. 242-243).

Catch fish. See infra, p. 200.

Steal bacon. See supra, p. 9, and note. In one of the
fables of Babrius, No. 86, repeated in the prose Greek
sop, ed. Halm 31, it is the fox with swollen paunch who
cannot escape (cf. Sudre, /oc. cit. p. 247).

CHAPTER X

Reynard’s Condemnation. en. dr. V.
P. 67. Bellin, not in Rein, Lelin in Ren.