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diff --git a/26833-0.txt b/26833-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e82091 --- /dev/null +++ b/26833-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1112 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne, by +George Borrow, Edited by Thomas J. Wise + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Niels Ebbesen and Germand Gladenswayne + two ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26833] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NIELS EBBESEN AND GERMAND +GLADENSWAYNE*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + NIELS EBBESEN + AND + GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE + + + 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_. + + + + +NIELS EBBESEN. + + +All his men the Count collects, + And from Slesvig marched away; +Never such as host was seen + Or before or since that day. + +Into Denmark marched the Count, + Followed by so fair a band; +Banners twenty-four they bore, + Power like theirs might none withstand. + +Gert the Count to Randers rode, + To bad counsel lending ear; +For from old it stood foretold, + He should end there his career. + +He would not the place avoid, + But seemed bent to tempt his fate; +Of the rural lords and thanes + He the quarters up will beat. + +Knights and freeborn men apart, + There trooped eighteen thousand bows; +Forty thousand made they all, + Who could such a host oppose? + +To Niels Ebbesen the Count + Word to appear before him sent; +And safe convoy him he gave, + Which should doubt and fear prevent. + +Gert the Count met Ebbesen + North of Randers by the sea: +“Welcome be, Niels Ebbesen! + Say how matters stand with thee.” + +To Niels stretched the Count his hand, + And to parleying straight they go; +There was little then of jest, + And of dallying less, I trow. + +“Sir Niels Ebbesen, thou art + Welcome as the flowers in spring; +How stand minds in North Jutland, + Thence what tidings dost thou bring? + +“Say how all thy wealthy friends + And thy heart’s loved lady are; +Which dost wish for at my hands, + Smiling peace, or bloody war?” + +“Well stand minds in North Jutland, + Each man’s courage there’s erect; +Say, dost come as friend or foe? + What from thee may we expect? + +“I have kindred in the North, + Men of wealth and noble race; +Shouldst thou it require of them + They’ll be ready for thy Grace.” + +“Wise art thou, Niels Ebbesen, + And thy prudence none can doubt; +When thou canst not straightway hit + Widely then thou ridst about. + +“Hear thou, Sir Niels Ebbesen, + Thou must on mine errand ride; +Say, how many men thou hast + Brought, on whom thou mayst confide?” + +“Kindred, Sir, I have, and friends, + ’Mongst the hardy Jutlanders; +Willingly they follow me + To the stormy strife of spears. + +“I have brought, such as they are, + With me thirty mounted men; +Be they fewer, or be they more, + Dear are they to Ebbesen.” + +“Hast thou with thee thirty lads? + That seems but a scanty force; +Yester e’en at Sir Bugge’s Gate + Stood’st thou with a hundred horse.” + +Backward Ebbesen recoiled, + And with high flushed cheek replied: +“He nor knight nor gentleman + Is, who me hath thus belied. + +“Be it man or woman who + To my face dares that to say, +Till I’ve answered suitably, + Ne’er from him I’ll flinch away.” + +“Hear thou, dear Niels Ebbesen, + We thereof will talk no more; +To thy friend Sir Bugge ride, + Him to serve me true win o’er.” + +“If your errand I shall do, + And to Bugge bold repair, +From thy part what I’m to say + First to me thou must declare.” + +“Bugge bold has me defied, + Young Poul Glob has done the same; +Anders Frost makes one of them, + Him your Chief ’tis said ye name. + +“And e’en thou, Niels Ebbesen, + Certain courtiers hast with thee, +Who have eaten of my bread, + And have basely quitted me. + +“First there is young Eske Frost, + And his stalwart brothers two; +Without leave of mine obtained, + From my service they withdrew. + +“More there are whom I’ve obliged, + And who pay me now no heed; +If to Bugge’s rede you list + Soon ye’ll see how you will speed.” + +“Nought of Bugge’s rede I know, + What he’ll do or leave undone; +Eske thy true servant was, + Cast no blame that knight upon. + +“Eske Frost’s a gallant man, + Guards his honour like his eye; +Sought he his discharge to gain, + Why to him didst it deny? + +“Custom ’tis in Danish land, + And has been from days of eld, +That the man who will not serve + Shall not be to serve compell’d. + +“No two things, save Monk and cowl, + Are for aye together tied; +As they loathe or like their place + Courtmen ride away or bide.” + +It was Count Sir Gert, could not + Such like reasoning understand: +“No one ought to quit his lord + Whilst that lord would him command. + +“And, Sir Niels, too long thou hast + Here stood idly chattering; +Either thou shalt Denmark quit, + Or thou shalt on gallows swing. + +“’Neath safe convoy since thou’rt come + Thou shalt go withouten hurt; +To thy cost else thou should’st learn + What it is to anger Gert.” + +“I thy princely passport hold, + Whether it avail or not; +If thou do me aught of harm, + Infamy thy name will blot. + +“Thieves mayst thou on gallows hang, + To be torn by carn and crow; +For thy threat from native land, + Wife, and child, I will not go. + +“But if me from native land + And my wife and babes you chase, +Thou shalt soon, for certainty, + Rue thou e’er hast seen my face!” + +“Ride away, Sir Ebbesen, + Quickly hence thyself betake, +Or I will, as well I can, + On thy skull the helmet break.” + +“None e’er saw me so adread + But that I could tremble still, {12} +Hear, Count Gert! look to thyself, + Guard thee from approaching ill.” + +“Ebbesen, thou tirest me, + Suffering thus thy tongue to run; +Till to-morrow thou art safe, + Even till the set of sun. + +“This, and the next day till eve, + Thou for me shalt be at rest; +But no belted knight am I + If I be not soon thy guest.” + +Swift away rode Ebbesen, + Shook his iron-gloved fist in air: +“That I soon shall come again, + Good Sir Count, in memory bear.” + +Forward rode Niels Ebbesen, + Spurred his steed till blood outflew; +With his men the Count remained, + No one dared the knight pursue. + +Till he reached his Castellaye, + Still he rode withouten rest; +To his dear Dame he complained, + Begged of her her counsel best. + +“Here thou sitt’st, dear Housewife mine, + What advice canst thou bestow? +Gert will drive me from the land, + Hath declared himself my foe. + +“To my choice three things he put, + Least of all I liked the third; +I should join him, or the land + Quit, or hang, such was his word.” + +“Ah! what counsel can I give + From my simple woman’s mind? +The most desperate counsel’s best, + Can we but that counsel find. + +“The most desperate counsel’s best, + If we can but it discover; +Either slay the tyrant, or + Burn the house the tyrant over. + +“To the smithy lead your steeds, + Let them all be shod anew; +Turn ye all the heels afore, + Thus your trace will cheat the view. + +“Turn ye all the heels afore, + Track ye thus, I ween, can no man; +Never tell to mortal wight, + Thou hast learnt this from a woman.” + +“Here my gallant swains ye sit, + Merry-making o’er your drink; +Every lad who loves his lord + From his lord now must not shrink.” + +Up then rose the Courtmen bold, + To take on anew agreed; +Save Sir Niels’ sister’s son, + From his uncle would recede. + +Swore the knights a solemn oath + That for him their lives they’d stake, +And with him would dauntless ride + Wheresoe’er a fray he’d make. + +So they rode to Fruerlund, + From their steeds they there dismount; +Into Randers then they walked, + To beat up the hairless Count. + +It was Sir Niels Ebbesen, + To the bridge of Randers came: +“He who’s loath to follow me + Straightway his discharge may claim.” + +Forward stepped the tiny Frost, + Thought the truest of the true: +“Give me my dismissal, Sir, + Give me horse and saddle too.” + +So he sought and got discharge, + Saddle got and steed withall; +But he served his master best + That same day ere evening fall. + +To the Count’s door rode Sir Niels, + Ne’er from that withdrew his look; +Thrice thereon with iron lance + Heavily the hero strook. + +“Rise up from thy sleep, my lord! + Let me in right speedily; +Thy dear brother, Henrik Count, + Has dispatched me unto thee.” + +“By my brother if thou’rt sent, + Rest thee from thy journey long; +Me to-morrow in the Kirk + Meet ’twixt mass and matin song.” + +“Let your page but at the door + Take from me the entrusted scroll; +Ribe hard invested is, + Colding town is burnt to coal. + +“Ribe hard invested is, + Colding’s burnt, and Vedel’s flung +Open to our troops its gate, + And Niels Ebbesen is hung.” + +“If what thou hast told be truth, + News it is to make one gay; +Thou shalt in respect be held + Herald till thy dying day. + +“Page! no more keep fast the door, + Let me on the herald gaze; +For that we the land have won + Is the sum of what he says.” + +To the window went the Count, + Thence his eye the lances caught: +“Ha! Niels Ebbesen’s at hand, + Curse the hour I Denmark sought.” + +Fierce with shields the doors they banged, + Burst the locks with frequent blow: +“Hairless Count! art thou within? + Hairless Count, we pledge thee now!” + +“Set thee down, Niels Ebbesen, + We shall things accommodate; +Let us send to Henrik Count, + And Claus Krummedige straight.” + +“Not so yesterday didst thou + Speak, Sir Count, by Randers strand; +Then thou saidst that I should hang, + Or should quit my native land.” + +Up and spoke the Count’s footpage, + Kinsman he to Ebbesen: +“By his words if ye be fooled + Lost art thou and all thy men.” + +Up and spoke the black young page, + Black because he was not white: +“Straight desist from useless talk, + Let, I rede, your faulchions bite.” + +“I’ve no castles, Sir, which can + Such a prisoner long contain; +Now, ye men, spare not your swords! + Hew at him with might and main!” + +So the tyrant Count they took, + Made him kneel upon the floor; +And his bald head off they hewed, + Hewed it off the bedstead o’er. + +Soon as they the Count had slain, + Loud the drums the alarum beat; +It was Sir Niels Ebbesen + From the town would fain retreat. + +From the town he hasted then, + Dared no longer there to stay; +Soon met him Sir Ove Hals, + And essayed to bar his way. + +“Do thou hear, Sir Ove Hals! + Do to me no injury! +Thou my faithful cousin art, + Prythee, Ove, let me flee.” + +“Our affinity I know + Well I know its near degree; +But my Lord you’ve foully slain, + Niels! I will not let thee flee.” + +Bleat the sheep, the ganders hiss, + Crows the cock upon the wall; +Ove Hals was sore beset, + Must to the Holsteiners call. + +’Gainst the Danes he could not stand, + Must to the Holsteiners call; +“Murdered is your liege the Count + Up, and on his butchers fall!” + +Fight Sir Ove and Sir Niels, + Ebbesen he would not fly, +He Sir Ove’s head smote off, + Left the corse in blood to lie. + +Ebbesen to Randers bridge + Came, there grew the combat hot, +There he found the tiny Frost + Who had late dismissal got. + +Niels sped over Randers bridge, + Holstein’s men came thronging after; +What did then the tiny Frost + But the bridge drop in the water. + +Thanks to Niels’s sister’s son, + Well he served his uncle then; +In the firth the planks he cast, + No bridge found the Holstein men. + +Niels a widow visited, + She’d but barley bannocks two, +One she gave to Niels, because + He the hairless tyrant slew. + +Ebbesen! God sain thy soul, + Never was a braver Dane; +Thou didst free thy fatherland + From a foreign tyrant’s chain. + +Christ bless every gallant man, + Who shall both with mouth and hand, +In the time of its distress, + Seek to serve his fatherland! + + + + +GERMAND GLADENSWAYNE + + +Our King and Queen sat o’er the board + In high festivity; +Between them there was much discourse + About the briny sea. + +Our gallant King and youthful Queen + They sailed across the foam; +Much better had it been for both + That they had stayed at home. + +But barely they a mile had gone + When still the vessel stood, +There came a raven wild, who strove, + To sink them in the flood. + +“If any thing the ship doth hold + Concealed beneath the main, +I’ll give thee, bird, a lump of gold + To set it free again. + +“O do not sink us in the sea, + Swart bird,” exclaimed the Queen, +“And I’ll give thee a lump of gold + Weighs Bismer pounds fifteen.” + +“Gold and silver I heed them not, + I crave another fee, +The treasure neath thy girdle fair + Thou now must promise me. + +“Plenty of gold I have myself, + From gold no help you’ll find, +On what beneath your girdle’s hid + I’ve firmly set my mind.” + +“I give what neath my girdle’s hid, + My bunch of keys—what more? +I’ll speedily have others forged + If I but win to shore.” + +Then straight she took the little keys + And cast them overboard; +Away then flew the Raven, glad + He had obtained her word. + +The Queen walks on the yellow sand, + Then o’er her came a gloom, +She felt that Germand Gladenswayne + Was quick within her womb. + +And from that day when five short months + Her head had flitted o’er, +The Queen she went to the chamber high, + And a lovely son she bore. + +Born was he in the evening hour, + They christened him at night; +They called him Germand Gladenswayne, + Concealed him whilst they might. + +They fostered him a winter’s space, + They fostered him for nine; +The fairest youth he grew on whom + The sun did ever shine. + +So well he throve, so well he grew, + His horse he well could ride, +Whene’er his mother on him gazed + So woefully she sigh’d. + +“Now list to me, my mother dear, + One thing I fain would know; +Why dost thou sigh so piteously + Whene’er I past thee go?” + +“Now hear thou, Germand Gladenswayne, + I’ve cause to be forlorn; +Beguiled I gave thee to a fiend + Before thou yet wast born.” + +“And do thou hear, my mother dear, + All sorrow cast aside: +Whatever be the will of God + By that I must abide.” + +It chanced upon a harvest morn + The breezes scarcely stirr’d, +That as the chamber door stood ope + So wild a yell was heard. + +In came the laidly bird of prey, + And stood the Queen before: +“Dost thou remember, gracious Queen, + Thy gift to me of yore?” + +She swore by God, and by the saints, + By all that’s good she swore, +That son nor daughter in the world + She never, never bore. + +Then flew away the bird of prey, + With an eldritch shriek he’s flown: +“Whene’er I meet Germand Gladenswayne + I’ll remember he’s my own.” + +When Germand fifteen years had reached + He’d fain a damsel wed; +He loved the daughter of England’s king, + The angel-lovely maid. + +His longing to be with his plighted maid + He might no more withstand: +“O how shall I come across the foam + To the flood-encircled land?” + +It was Germand Gladenswayne, + He donned his best array; +And he has ta’en to his mother dear + To the lofty hall his way. + +In came Germand Gladenswayne, + In scarlet clad was he: +“O mother lend me thy feather robe + To fly across the sea.” + +“My feather robe hangs upon the crook, + The feathers droop so low, +If thou dost fly to the foreign land + I shall see thee never moe. + +“The pinions are so broad that they + Grow heavy in the air, +I’ll have another made for me + If I live another year.” + +He set himself in the feather robe, + Flew o’er the ocean straight; +And there met him the raven wild, + Beneath a rock did wait. + +He flew up, and he flew down, + He flew in fearless guise; +And when he reached the midst of the sea + He heard a frightful voice. + +“Ha, well met, Germand Gladenswayne, + O’er long hast thou delay’d; +Thou wast but little when to me + A present thou wast made!” + +“O let me fare, O let me fly, + To speak my maiden dear; +Be sure that I, when her I’ve seen, + Again will meet thee here.” + +“Then I will let thee fly, but still + My mark on thee will set, +Lest thou midst knights and beauteous dames + Thy raven lord forget.” + +Then out the boy’s right eye he tore, + And drank up half his blood; +But still he reached the bower of his bride, + His heart was yet so good. + +He set himself by the Damsels’ bower, + All bloody and distrest; +All the dames within that were + Forgot to smile and jest. + +All the damsels grew so still, + With horror sat they fast; +Except proud Damsel Adelude, + Aside her work she cast. + +All the maids within forsook + Both jest and merry note; +’Twas the proud Damsel Adelude + Her hands together smote. + +“Now welcome, Germand Gladenswayne, + Where hast thou been to play? +Say, why bebloodied are thy clothes, + And pale thy cheeks as clay?” + +“Farewell, dear Damsel Adelude, + I soon from thee must fly; +For he must have my youthful life + Who tore from me my eye.” + +Her silver handled comb she took, + And strove to comb his head; +For every hair that she did comb + A briny tear she shed. + +For every lock the maiden combed + A stream of tears did run; +How often she the mother cursed + Who had betrayed her son. + +It was Damsel Adelude, + She took him in her arm: +“Accursed be the wicked Dame + Who caused us all this harm.” + +“Hear thou, sweet Damsel Adelude, + Curse not my mother so, +She had no power in this affair, + We all to fate must bow.” + +He set him in his feather robe, + And mounted on the wind; +She set her in another robe, + And followed fast behind. + +“O turn thee, Damsel Adelude, + Turn my beloved one, +Thy bower door doth open stand, + Thy keys lie on the stone.” + +“Though my bower door doth open stand, + And my keys lie on the stone, +Yet I will follow thee to the place + Where harm to thee was done.” + +All the birds she cut so small + She met with there on high, +Except the laidly Raven wild, + And him she could not spy. + +’Twas the proud Damsel Adelude + Flew down towards the strand; +Nought found she of the Gladenswayne + Except the good right hand. + +She flew so wroth the clouds below + The laidly bird to find; +She flew East, and she flew West, + To slay him she designed. + +She hacked the birds into pieces three, + Before her knife that came; +But when she met the Raven wild + Into ten she hacked his frame. + +And still till she of sorrow died + She flew across the heath; +It was for Germand Gladenswayne + She suffered grief and death. + + * * * * * + + LONDON: + Printed for THOMAS J. 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