In theversions all give there are inaccuracies, arising from obvious causes, especially from want of historical data.
In this form of the story, as in the Icelandic versions which follow, the robbers are not the brothers of the maids.
The shirt is given by a wife to a husband in several versions of an otherwise different story.
Unfortunately, many of the English versionsare so injured towards the close that the full story cannot be made out.
Five other versions are of the date 1700, or earlier, the rest from tradition of this century.
We have had a similar reply, made under like circumstances, in Polish versions of No 4: see p.
In #H# the fiddler dashes the instrument against a stone, seemingly to earn his bribe, but this trait belongs to versions which take the turn of the Norwegian.
The ballad is still sung in Scandinavia and Germany, but only the Danes have versions taken down before the present century.
In vain we conjectured, and I hope not impertinently, the characters and tastes of the absentees; the sole clue that offered itself was a bookshelf of some Spanish versions from authors scientific and metaphysical to the verge of agnosticism.
Many were new versions of existing fables; but those of his later years were more often original inventions.
Since the spirit is more likely to survive if the letter is not exacting, it is difficult to see why custom looks askance upon prose versions of poetry.
The versions of this widespread story which are most easily accessible to English readers are likely to prejudice such readers against Panzer's view.
An examination of the different versions of the genealogy, given on pp.
Indeed, the different versions of the story of the feud between the house of Hrothgar and the house of Froda are very much to the point.
In most versions of the folk-tale this is the third attack, as it is in the case of Grettir at Sandhaugar and of Bjarki: in Beowulf, on the contrary, we gather that Heorot has been raided many times.
The principal versions of this pedigree are given in tabular form below (pp.
But considering that Beow is in some versions a grandson, in all a descendant of Sceaf, it can hardly be an accident that his name is identical with the O.
Individual versions or groups of versions of the tale may contain features which occur also in the Grendel-story, without that being any evidence for primitive connection.
The Scandinavian versionsare less primitive and historic.
Panzer exaggerates the case against his own theory when he quotes only six versions as omitting the princesses (p.
It is not unlikely there might, though he is not mentioned by Mr. Reddock, for the confusion of characters in all these versions is very great.
We cannot undertake to say that he was familiar with these two authors in the original Greek, but even a knowledge of the Latin versions in that rude age is highly honourable to our Irish schools.
In some of the versions of the Life of Fursey he is made to come to the court of Brandubh, King of Leinster; but this error arose from confounding the latter with Brendinus, or Brudinus, King of North Connaught.
But we are careful to collate it with the versions of Fineschi and Bonaini, taking note of significant divergences.
The philosophic Chancellor farther suggested, as a means to this desired end, the preparation of "versions of Bibles and Catechisms, and other works of instruction in the Irish language.
He presents the magician's letters to the King (the devil in the mediƦval versions of the story) who requires Venus to surrender the ring, and with it her claim to the husband.
This volume contains the last of my versions from the Wortley Montague Codex, and this is the place to offer a short account of that much bewritten MS.
European versions always a "pear-tree," which is not found in Badawi-land.
The names vary considerably in the different versions of this piece.
Another copy of this last has been published from Buchan's manuscripts in Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads (Percy Society, vol.
The seventeenth volume of the Percy Society Publications furnishes us with a Scottish version in which Sir Hugh is rescued and sent over the sea: Scottish Traditional Versions of Ancient Ballads, p.
Fry did not observe that he was printing fragments of two differentversions as one ballad.
As Gordon never cashiered Car for this inhuman action, he was held by the public voice to be equally guilty, and accordingly [in one of the versions of the ballad] he is represented as the principal actor himself.
There are two other versions of this same story, in which Wallace's mistress is induced to betray him to the English, but repents in time to save her lover.
It differs in so many respects from the original one performed in England by the Stage Society, that it has been decided to include both versions in this volume.
The English Versions by Mrs. Bernard Shaw, St. John Hankin and John Pollock.
His criticism of Spanish versions is acute, and he often appeals to his knowledge of Quichua, and to the direct traditions received by him from his uncle.
Three different versions of their Acts are published by Bollandus.
Ephraem related the incident several times to his monks, and they wrote it down from what he had related, there exist several versions of the story slightly differing from one another.
For myself I own that the literature to which I turn for the nurture and inspiration of Faith, Hope and Love is almost exclusively the product of orthodox versions of the Christian religion.
The narratives of Matthew, Mark and Luke are independent versions of this apostolic testimony.
Earlier versions were probably familiar to the Norse in the tenth century, at which time Dublin was the capital of a Norse kingdom.
It is full of beauty and pathos in all the versions of it which have come down to us; but most of all in the graphic story of St. Mark, to whose Gospel therefore its illustration may be regarded as belonging by special right.
The two have many features in common, but the differences are so great that it is plainly wrong to suppose them to be different versions of the same.
Yet, imperfect as the chap-book versions are, they yet retain not a few archaic touches.
The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (Celtic Fairy Tales, No.
Now, in the "English" versions there is practical unanimity in the concluding portions of the tale.
Campbell's and Macleod's versions are practically at one with the English formula, the latter with an important variation which will concern us later.
I have taken a point here and a point there from the various English versions mentioned in the next section.
Of these the chap-book versions contain scarcely anything of the opening motifs.
Child gives no less than nine versions in his masterly edition, l.
This in some of the versions is left as a legacy by the heroine's dying mother.
Campbell's two versions also contain the incident, from which one of them receives its name.
It probably existed in one of the versions of Nix Nought Nothing (No.
To these I would add (8, 9) Chambers's two versions in Pop.
The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and he is there represented as a village Hampden who withstood the tyranny of the local lord of the manor.
There were other versions of the Passion, but that which most concerns us at present was an arrangement of the text in 1712 by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, a member of the Town Council of Hamburg.
Their versionsled the world captive for 2000 years.
Wickliff's translation of the New Testament; and should the editors of the Wickliffite Versions like to see my MS.
The oldest Greek versions (Septuagint), from the third century B.
Difficulties arising from different estimates in different versions of the Bible.
The orthodox moral of the earliest versions is preserved to the last in the puppet-plays.
It is supposed, with good reason, that the German versions were based on those introduced into the country by English strolling players early in the 17th century.
However this may be, the dramatic versions of the Faust legend followed much the same course as the prose histories.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "versions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.