Some of the usual tokens, gold harp, sark, shoes, and silver-mounted knife, are found in the later #C#. Danish #D# is but a single initial stanza.
Besides Sølverlad and Vendelrod, there is a considerable number of Danish ballads characterized by the feature that a bride is not a maid, and most or all of these have similarities to 'Gil Brenton.' 'Hr. Find og Vendelrod,' Grundtvig, No 275, has even the talking blanket (sometimes misunderstood to be a bed-_board_). In this piece there is no substitution. Vendelrod gives birth to children, and the news makes Find jump over the table. Still he puts the question mildly, who is the father, and recognizes that he is the man, upon hearing the story of the bower on the strand, and seeing half a gold ring which Vendelrod had received "for her honor."
In 'Ingelilles Bryllup,' Grundtvig, No 276, Blidelild is induced to take Ingelild's place by the promise that she shall marry Ingelild's brother. Hr. Magnus asks her why she is so sad, and says he knows she is not a maid. Blidelild says, "Since you know so much, I will tell you more," and relates Ingelild's adventure,--how she had gone out to the river, and nine knights came riding by, etc. [so #A#; in #B# and #C# we have the bower on the strand, as before]. Hr. Magnus avows that he was the ninth, who stayed when eight rode away. Blidelild begs that he will allow her to go and look for some lost rings, and uses the opportunity to send back Ingelild in her stead.
Various other Scandinavian ballads have more or less of the story of those which have been mentioned. In the Danish 'Brud i Vaande,' Grundtvig, No 277, a bride is taken with untimely pains while being "brought home." The question asked in several of the Scottish ballads, whether the saddle is uncomfortable, occurs in #A#, #B#; the bower that was forced by eight swains and a knight in #A#, #C#, #D#, #F#; the gifts in #A#, #B#, #F#; and an express acknowledgment of the act of violence by the bridegroom in #A#, #B#, #D#. We find all of these traits except the first in the corresponding Swedish ballad 'Herr Äster och Fröken Sissa,' Afzelius, No 38, new ed., No 32,^1; the saddle and broken bower in Swedish #D#, Grundtvig, No 277, Bilag 1; only the saddle in Swedish #F#, Grundtvig, No. 277, Bilag 3, and #C#, Arwidsson, No 132; the saddle and gifts in Icelandic #A#, #B#, #C#, #D#, #E#, Grundtvig, No 277, Bilag 5, 6, 7, 8.