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The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and His Sister - George Henry Borrow
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Title: The Tale of Brynild, and King Valdemar and his Sister
Two Ballads
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Thomas Wise
Release Date: May 16, 2009 [eBook #28835]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TALE OF BRYNILD, AND KING
VALDEMAR AND HIS SISTER***
Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.
THE TALE OF BRYNILD
and
KING VALDEMAR AND HIS SISTER
two ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
THE TALE OF BRYNILD
Sivard he a colt has got,
The swiftest ’neath the sun;
Proud Brynild from the Hill of Glass
In open day he won.
Unto her did of knights and swains
The very flower ride;
Not one of them the maid to win
Could climb the mountain’s side.
The hill it was both steep and smooth;
Upon its lofty head
Her sire had set her, knight nor swain
He swore with her should wed.
Soon to the Danish monarch’s court
A messenger repaired,
To know if there was any one
To try the adventure dared.
’Twas talked about, and Sivard then
His purpose soon made known;
Said he: "I’ll try upon my colt
To bring Brynilda down."
He rode away, the way was far,
The path was of the worst;
He saw the shining Glass Hill, where