NOTES Professor Max Miiller believes it to be due to a

blunder in the interpretation of words :—that the
story represents the Sun beloved by the Dawn; in
Sanskrit the words for sun and for frog are almost
the same. But this is mere fantasy. The San-
skrit is not a parent language to our European
Aryan tongues, but a sister tongue, and later in
form than some of the latter. His theory may be
dismissed without further consideration.
The story of ‘The Frog Prince’ is told by Halliwell,
in his ‘Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales,’ 1849.
There is a Scotch version of the tale, ‘The Well o’
the Warld’s End,’ given by Chambers in his ‘Popular
Rhymes of Scotland.’ The story is found in
Germany, and is given by Grimm. There is clear
evidence that anciently the tale was told in
England in ballad form, and now only fragments
of the metrical version remain. Professor Child,
in his collection of British Ballads, gives an ex-
haustive account of the various forms in which
this tale is found.

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