Puputiriru: An Eastern Folktale from the Disciplina clericalis --On Alfonso X's "Interrupted" Encounter with a soldadeira -- Martinez de Toledo's "Nightmare" and the Courtly and Oral Traditions -- Knitting and Sewing Metaphors and a Maiden's Honor in La Celestina -- El idolatra de Maria: An Anti-Christian Jewish Ballad? -- Gil Vicente's Remando Vao Remadores and Barca Bela -- The Oral Transmission of Flerida -- The Sephardic Ballad -- The Spanish Ballad -- The Portuguese Ballad -- Three New Ballads Derived from Don Duardos -- O Hortelao das Flores -- Lizarda -- El falso hortelano -- Puputiriru -- A Princesa -- Flerida (Sephardic Versions) -- O Hortelao das Flores -- El falso hortelano -- Ballads, Popular Songs, and Folktales -- Euphemisms and Metaphors -- Subjects and Proper Names.