Lorn and the False Steward, too closely related not to be derived, was entered into the Stationers' Register in 1580. Sir Walter Scott recounted that within living memory of his time, an old person wandered Edinburgh, singing Roswall and Lillian. Motifs Despite its late origin, the tale is rife with motifs deriving from folklore. The rescue of the prisoners, his exile, and their assistance to him is clearly recognizable in such fairy tales as Iron Hans, The Gold-bearded Man, and The Hairy Man, and this friendship is central to the plot. The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward contains both the treacherous steward and the marriage to the steward interrupted for that of the man he supplanted. Both it and The Goose Girl turn on the revelation that the true royal has been supplanted by a treacherous servant. Fighting in the three different suits of armor at the tourney resemble those of Ipomedon and Sir Gowther References External links Modernized text Romance (genre)