A detailed comparison of the English ballads, and especially of 'Earl Brand,' with the Scandinavian (such as Grundtvig has made, III, 855 f) shows an unusual and very interesting agreement. The name Earl Brand, to begin with, is in all probability a modification of the Hildebrand found in Danish 82 #N#, #O#, #P#, #V#, #C*#, in all versions of Danish 83, and in the corresponding Swedish #A#. Ell, too, in Percy's fragment, which may have been Ellë earlier, points to Hilde, or something like it, and Erl-inton might easily be corrupted from such a form as the Alibrand of Norwegian #B# (Grundtvig, III, 858). Hildebrand is the son of the king of England in Danish 83 #A-E#, and the lady in 'Earl Brand' is the same king's daughter, an interchange such as is constantly occurring in tradition. Stanza 2 can hardly be the rightful property of 'Earl Brand.' Something very similar is met with in 'Leesome Brand,' and is not much in place there. For 'old Carl Hood,' of whom more presently, Danish 82 #X# and Norwegian #A#, #C# have an old man, Danish #C# a crafty man, #T# a false younker, and Norwegian #B# and three others "false Pál greive." The lady's urging Earl Brand to slay the old carl, and the answer, that it would be sair to kill a gray-haired man, sts 8, 9, are almost literally repeated in Norwegian #A#, Landstad, No 33. The knight does slay the old man in Danish #X# and Norwegian #C#, and slays the court page in Danish #Z#, and false Pál greive in Norwegian #B#,--in this last _after_ the battle. The question, "Where have ye stolen this lady away?" in st. 11, occurs in Danish 82 #A#, #D#, #E#, #K#, #P#, #R#, #S#, #T#, #Z#, in Norwegian #B# and Icelandic #B#, and something very similar in many other copies. The reply, "She is my sick sister, whom I have brought from Winchester" [nunnery], is found almost literally in Danish #C#, #X#, #Z#: "It is my sick sister; I took her yesterday from the cloister." [Danish #E#, it is my youngest sister from the cloister; she is sick: Danish #A#, youngest sister from cloister: Danish #R# and Norwegian #B#, sister from cloister: Danish #S#, #T#, sister's daughter from cloister: Norwegian #F#, sister from Holstein: Danish #P#, Icelandic #A#, Norwegian #A#, sister.] The old man, crafty man, rich earl, in the Scandinavian ballads, commonly answers that he knows Guldborg very well; but in Danish #D#, where Ribold says it is a court page he has hired, we have something like sts 14, 15: "Why has he such silk-braided hair?" On finding themselves discovered, the lovers, in the Scandinavian ballad, attempt to purchase silence with a bribe: Danish #A-I#, #M#, Icelandic and Norwegian #A#, #B#. This is not expressly done in 'Earl Brand,' but the same seems to be meant in st. 10 by "I'll gie him a pound." St. 17 is fairly paralleled by Danish #S#, 18, 19: "Where is Guldborg, thy daughter? Walking in the garden, gathering roses;" and st. 18, by Norwegian #B#, 15: "You may search without and search within, and see whether Ölleber you can find." The announcement in st. 19 is made in almost all the Scandinavian ballads, in words equivalent to "Ribold is off with thy daughter," and then follows the arming for the pursuit. The lady looks over her shoulder and sees her father coming, as in st. 21, in Danish 82 #A#, #F#, #H#, #I#, #Q#, #R#, #T#, #X#, #Z#, and Norwegian #A#.