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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/26834-0.txt b/26834-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3beb92f --- /dev/null +++ b/26834-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,961 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven, 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: The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven + and other ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26834] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NIGHTINGALE, THE VALKYRIE AND +RAVEN*** + + +Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email +ccx074@pglaf.org + + + + + + THE NIGHTINGALE + THE VALKYRIE AND RAVEN + AND OTHER BALLADS + + + BY + GEORGE BORROW + + LONDON: + PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION + + 1913 + + _Copyright in the United States of America_ + _by Houghton_, _Mifflin and Co. for Clement Shorter_. + + + + +THE NIGHTINGALE, OR THE TRANSFORMED DAMSEL + + +I know where stands a Castellaye, + Its turrets are so fairly gilt; +With silver are its gates inlaid, + Its walls of marble stone are built. + +Within it stands a linden tree, + With lovely leaves its boughs are hung, +Therein doth dwell a nightingale, + And sweetly moves that bird its tongue. + +A gallant knight came riding by, + He heard its dulcet ditty ring; +And sorely, sorely, wondered he + At midnight hour that it should sing. + +"And hear, thou little Nightingale, + If thou to me wilt sing a lay, +Thy feathers I'll with gold bedeck, + Thy neck with costly pearls array." + +"With golden feathers others lure, + Such gifts for me have value slight; +I am a strange and lonely bird, + But little known to mortal wight." + +"And thou, a strange wild bird thou be, + Whom other mortals little know; +Yet hunger pinches thee, and cold, + When falls the cruel winter snow." + +"I laugh at hunger, laugh at snow, + Which falls so wide on hill and lea; +But I am vexed by secret care, + I know not either joy or glee. + +"Betwixt the hills and valleys deep + Away the rapid rivers flow; +But ah! remembrance of true love + From out the mind will never go. + +"O I had once a handsome love, + A famous knight of valour he; +But ah! my step-dame all o'erturn'd, + She vowed our marriage ne'er should be. + +"She changed me to a Nightingale, + Bade me around the world to fly; +My Brother she changed to a wolf so gray, + Bade him into the forest hie. + +"She told him, as the wood he sought, + That he should win his shape no more, +'Till he had drunk her heart's blood out, + And that befell when years were o'er. + +"It happened on a summer tide, + Amidst the wood she wandered gay, +My brother saw and watched her close, + From 'neath the bushes where he lay. + +"He seized her quickly by the foot, + All with his laidly wolfish claw; +Tore out her heart, and drank her blood, + And thus released himself he saw. + +"Yet I am still a little bird, + And o'er the verdant meads I fly; +So sorrowful I pass my life, + But mostly 'neath the winter's sky. + +"But God be thanked, he me has waked, + And speech from him my tongue has won; +For fifteen years I have not spoke + As I with thee, Sir Knight, have done. + +"But ever with a mournful voice, + Have sung the green wood bough upon; +And had no better dwelling place + Than gloomy forests, sad and lone." + +"Now hear, thou little Nightingale, + This simple thing would I propose, +In winter sit within my bower, + And hie thee forth when summer blows." + +"O many thanks, thou handsome knight + Thy offer would I accept full fane; +But ah, my step-dame that forbade + Whilst still in feather I remain." + +The Nightingale sat musing deep, + Unto the knight she paid no heed, +Until he seized her by the foot, + For God I ween had so decreed. + +He carried her to his chamber in, + The doors and windows fast he made; +Then changed she to the strangest beasts + That ever mortal eye survey'd. + +A lion now, and now a bear, + And now a coil of hissing snakes; +At last a Dragon she became, + And furious she the knight attacks. + +He cut her with a little knife, + So that her blood did stain the floor; +Then straight before his eye there stood + A Damsel bright as any flower. + +"Now, Damsel fair, I've rescued thee + From thraldom drear and secret care; +Now tell me of thy ancestry, + Thy parents and thy race declare." + +"My father he was England's King, + My mother was his lovely Queen; +My brother once a grey wolf was, + And trotted o'er the wold so green." + +"If England's King thy father was, + And thy dear mother England's Queen, +Thou art my sister's daughter then, + Who long a Nightingale has been." + +O there was joy throughout the land, + And all the court was filled with glee; +The Knight has caught the Nightingale, + That dwelt within the linden tree. + + + + +THE VALKYRIE AND RAVEN + + +Ye men wearing bracelets + Be mute whilst I sing +Of Harald the hero-- + High Norroway's king; +I'll duly declare + A discourse which I heard, +Betwixt a bright maiden + And black raven bird. + +The Valkyrie's vext + No war-field to find; +The speech she knew well + Of the wild feather'd kind, +And thus she bespake him + Who bears the brown bill, +So proud as he perch'd on + The peak of the hill. + +"What do you here, ravens, + And whence come ye, say, +Your heads turn'd direct to + The dying sun's ray? +Bits of flesh hold your claws-- + There's blood flowing free +From your beaks, surely nigh + Dead bodies there be." + +Then wiping his beak, + Bloody red, on the rock, +The eagle's sworn brother + Thus answer'd and spoke: +"Harald we've follow'd, + Of Halfdan the son, +Ever since from the egg + That we egress have won." + +"Then ye know, bird, the king, + Whose keep is in Kvine, +The young king--the Norse king-- + Whose keels cut the brine; +Red-rimm'd are his bucklers, + Betarr'd are his oars-- +His sails are all bleach'd + With the sea-spray and showers." + +"Abroad will drink Yule, + The young king, and will try +To wake up, O maiden, + The wild game of Frey, +Of the warmth of the hearth + He weary is grown; +He loathes the close chamber + And cushions of down. + +"Heard ye not the hard fight + Near Hafirsfirth beach, +'Twixt the king of high kindred + And Kotva the rich? +Sail'd ships from the East + Prepared for war stern; +Their dragon heads gaped, + Their gilded sides burn. + +"They were fill'd with proud freemen + Well furnish'd with shields, +And the very best weapons + The western land yields; +Grimly the Baresarkers + Grinn'd, biting steel,-- +Howl'd the wolf-heathens + War madness they feel. + +"They moved 'gainst the monarch + Whose might makes them pine, +'Gainst the king--the Norse king-- + Who keeps court at Utstein; +Flinch'd the king's bark at first, + For they ply'd her right well-- +There was hammering on helmets + Ere Haklangr fell. + +"Left the land to the lad + With the locks long and full, +Rich Kotva, the lord, + Thick of neck, like the bull; +'Neath the thwarts themselves threw, + They who'd wounds, in despair, +Their heads to the keel + And their heels to the air. + +"On their shoulders their shields, + Such as Swafni's roof form, +Flinging swift as a fence + From the fierce stony storm; +The yeomen affrighted + From Hafirsfirth speed, +And arrived at their homes + They call hoarsely for mead. + +"The slain strew the strand + To the very great joy +Of ourselves and of Odin, + The chief of one eye." + + _Valkyrie_. + +"Of his wars and his prowess + With wonder I've heard; +Now speak of his wives + And his women, O bird!" + + _Raven_. + +"He had damsels from Holmygg + And Hordaland, too; +And damsels from Hedemark + Dainty of hue; +But he sent them with gifts + To their countries again, +When he wedded Ranhilda + The beautiful Dane." + + _Valkyrie_. + +"I warrant he's bounteous! + And well doth reward +The warriors and gallants + His kingdom who guard." + + _Raven_. + +"O, yes, he is bounteous! + And bravely they fare +Who in Harald's dominions + Hew food for the bear; +With coin he presents them, + And keen polish'd glaives, +With mail from Hungaria + And Osterland slaves." + +"O happy lives have they + Who help him in war, +Can run to the mast-head + Or manage the oar; +Make the row-locks to creak, + And the row-bench to crack, +And in their lord's service + Are never found slack." + + _Valkyrie_. + +"Of the Skalds now I'll ask thee, + The sons of the strain, +By whom deathless honor + He hopes to obtain; +I doubt not, O Raven, + That thou knowest well +The workers of verse + Who at Harald's court dwell." + + _Raven_. + +"By their gallant array, + By the armlets they bear +All of gold, you may learn + To their lord they are dear; +Ruddy kirtles they have + That are laced at the skirts, +Swords silver inlaid, + And steely mail shirts: +All gilded their hilts, + Their helmets all graven; +Gold rings on their hands." + + _Valkyrie_. + + "Now read me, O Raven, +Of the Baresarkers--how + Do ye style them who wade +In blood ankle-deep + By no danger dismay'd?" + + _Raven_. + +"Wolf-heathens they hight, + To the thick of the fray +Ruddy shields who do bear, + And with swords clear away; +None but those who know nought + Of terror can stand +When stout and strong men + Shiver buckler with brand." + + _Valkyrie_. + +"Of jesting and game + Our discourse shall be brief; +What does Andadr do, + Harald's jester in chief?" + + _Raven_. + +"Fun Andadr loves; + He makes faces and sneers, +And the monarch doth laugh + At the loon without ears. +There are others who bear + Burning brands from the fire +Stick a torch 'neath their belt, + Yet ne'er singe their attire; +Some that dance on their heels, + Or that tumble and spring-- +O 'tis gay in the hall + Of high Harald the king!" + + + + +ERIK EMUN AND SIR PLOG + + +Early at morn the lark sang gay-- + (_All underneath so green a hill_) +Sir Carl by his bed put on his array-- + (_The Danish King will 'venge his fill_). + +He drew on his shirt as white as milk, +Then his doublet foisted with verdant silk. + +His legs in his buckskin boots he placed, +And around them his gilded spurs he braced. + +His gilded spurs there around he braced, +And away to the Ting he rode in haste. + +Sir Carl he galloped along the way, +Such wondrous things he proved that day. + +Sir Carl he galloped up to the Ting, +The crowd before him scattering. + +To warriors nine the Dane-king cries: +"Bind ye Sir Carl before my eyes." + +Up then amain the nine warriors rise, +They bound Sir Carl 'fore their sovereign's eyes. + +And out from the town Sir Carl they convey'd, +And upon a new wheel his body laid. + +To Sir Plog then quickly a messenger came: +"The Dane-king has broken thy brother's frame." + +Sir Plog he sprang o'er the wide, wide board, +But returned in answer no single word. + +In his buckskin boots his shanks he cased +And around his gilded spurs he braced. + +His gilded spurs there around he tied, +And away to the Ting the noble hied. + +And fast and furious was his course, +So leapt and bounded his gallant horse. + +Up, up to the Ting Sir Plog he goes, +And up to receive him the Dane-king rose. + +"If I had been earlier here to-day, +Then things had turned out in a better way. + +"My brother is wheeled though he did no wrong, +That deed, Dane-king, thou shalt rue ere long. + +"If four hours sooner I had but come, +My brother, for certain, had followed me home. + +"Deprived of his life doth my brother lie, +Dane-king, thou hast lost thine honour thereby." + +The Dane-king so fitting an answer returned: +"Thy brother full richly his death had earned. + +"When the great with sword can oppress the mean +The law is not worth a rotten bean." + +"My brother, Sir King, was good and bold, +I could have redeemed him with silver and gold." + +"Thy silver and gold I hold at nought, +The law shall have the course it ought. + +"And since thou so long on this matter doth prate, +Thou shalt suffer the very same fate." + +To warriors nine the Dane-king cries: +"Bind ye Sir Plog before my eyes." + +"If a truly brave man, Dane-king, thou be, +Do thou thyself bind and fetter me." + +The King off his hands the little gloves took, +Sir Plog his spear with vehemence shook. + +He first slew four, then five he slew, +And the Dane-king himself with his warriors true. + +When all the King's men he dead had laid, +His gallant brother he home convey'd. + +To Ribe the royal corse they bear, +Where it rests 'neath a tomb of marble fair. + +But Sir Plog he went to a foreign shore, +No word they heard of him evermore. + + + + +THE ELVES + + +_Take heed_, _good people_, _of yourselves_; +_And oh_! _beware ye of the elves_. + +Once a peasant young and gay +Was in his meadow cutting hay, +There came a lovely looking lass +From out the neighbouring morass. +The lass he woo'd, her promise won, +And soon the bridal day came on. +But when the pair had got to bed, +The bridegroom found, with fear and dread, +That he a rough oak stump embrac'd, +Instead of woman's lovely waist. +Then, to increase his fear and wonder, +There sang a voice his window under: + +"Come out to her whom thou didst wed, +Upon my mead the bed is spread." +From that wild lay the peasant knew +He with a fay had had to do. + +_Take heed_, _good people_, _of yourselves_; +_And oh_! _beware ye of the elves_. + + + + +FERIDUN + + +No face of an Angel could Feridun claim, +Nor of musk nor of amber I ween was his frame; +In bright generosity beauteous was he, +Be generous like him and as fair thou shalt be. + + + + +EPIGRAMS + + +1. + + +A worthless thing is song, I trow, +From out the heart which does not flow; 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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: The Nightingale, the Valkyrie and Raven + and other ballads + + +Translator: George Borrow + +Editor: Thomas J. Wise + +Release Date: October 7, 2008 [eBook #26834] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: UTF-8 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NIGHTINGALE, THE VALKYRIE AND +RAVEN*** +</pre> +<p><a name="startoftext"></a></p> +<p>Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David +Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org</p> +<h1>THE NIGHTINGALE<br /> +THE VALKYRIE AND RAVEN<br /> +<span class="smcap">and other ballads</span></h1> +<p style="text-align: center"><span class="smcap">by</span><br /> +GEORGE BORROW</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><span +class="smcap">London</span>:<br /> +<span class="smcap">printed for private circulation</span></p> +<p style="text-align: center">1913</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 4--><a +name="page4"></a><span class="pagenum">p. 4</span><i>Copyright in +the United States of America</i><br /> +<i>by Houghton</i>, <i>Mifflin and Co. for Clement +Shorter</i>.</p> +<h2><!-- page 5--><a name="page5"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +5</span>THE NIGHTINGALE, OR THE TRANSFORMED DAMSEL</h2> +<p>I know where stands a Castellaye,<br /> + Its turrets are so fairly gilt;<br /> +With silver are its gates inlaid,<br /> + Its walls of marble stone are built.</p> +<p>Within it stands a linden tree,<br /> + With lovely leaves its boughs are hung,<br /> +Therein doth dwell a nightingale,<br /> + And sweetly moves that bird its tongue.</p> +<p>A gallant knight came riding by,<br /> + He heard its dulcet ditty ring;<br /> +And sorely, sorely, wondered he<br /> + At midnight hour that it should sing.</p> +<p><!-- page 6--><a name="page6"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +6</span>“And hear, thou little Nightingale,<br /> + If thou to me wilt sing a lay,<br /> +Thy feathers I’ll with gold bedeck,<br /> + Thy neck with costly pearls array.”</p> +<p>“With golden feathers others lure,<br /> + Such gifts for me have value slight;<br /> +I am a strange and lonely bird,<br /> + But little known to mortal wight.”</p> +<p>“And thou, a strange wild bird thou be,<br /> + Whom other mortals little know;<br /> +Yet hunger pinches thee, and cold,<br /> + When falls the cruel winter snow.”</p> +<p>“I laugh at hunger, laugh at snow,<br /> + Which falls so wide on hill and lea;<br /> +But I am vexed by secret care,<br /> + I know not either joy or glee.</p> +<p>“Betwixt the hills and valleys deep<br /> + Away the rapid rivers flow;<br /> +But ah! remembrance of true love<br /> + From out the mind will never go.</p> +<p><!-- page 7--><a name="page7"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +7</span>“O I had once a handsome love,<br /> + A famous knight of valour he;<br /> +But ah! my step-dame all o’erturn’d,<br /> + She vowed our marriage ne’er should be.</p> +<p>“She changed me to a Nightingale,<br /> + Bade me around the world to fly;<br /> +My Brother she changed to a wolf so gray,<br /> + Bade him into the forest hie.</p> +<p>“She told him, as the wood he sought,<br /> + That he should win his shape no more,<br /> +’Till he had drunk her heart’s blood out,<br /> + And that befell when years were o’er.</p> +<p>“It happened on a summer tide,<br /> + Amidst the wood she wandered gay,<br /> +My brother saw and watched her close,<br /> + From ’neath the bushes where he lay.</p> +<p>“He seized her quickly by the foot,<br /> + All with his laidly wolfish claw;<br /> +Tore out her heart, and drank her blood,<br /> + And thus released himself he saw.</p> +<p><!-- page 8--><a name="page8"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +8</span>“Yet I am still a little bird,<br /> + And o’er the verdant meads I fly;<br /> +So sorrowful I pass my life,<br /> + But mostly ’neath the winter’s sky.</p> +<p>“But God be thanked, he me has waked,<br /> + And speech from him my tongue has won;<br /> +For fifteen years I have not spoke<br /> + As I with thee, Sir Knight, have done.</p> +<p>“But ever with a mournful voice,<br /> + Have sung the green wood bough upon;<br /> +And had no better dwelling place<br /> + Than gloomy forests, sad and lone.”</p> +<p>“Now hear, thou little Nightingale,<br /> + This simple thing would I propose,<br /> +In winter sit within my bower,<br /> + And hie thee forth when summer blows.”</p> +<p>“O many thanks, thou handsome knight<br /> + Thy offer would I accept full fane;<br /> +But ah, my step-dame that forbade<br /> + Whilst still in feather I remain.”</p> +<p><!-- page 9--><a name="page9"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +9</span>The Nightingale sat musing deep,<br /> + Unto the knight she paid no heed,<br /> +Until he seized her by the foot,<br /> + For God I ween had so decreed.</p> +<p>He carried her to his chamber in,<br /> + The doors and windows fast he made;<br /> +Then changed she to the strangest beasts<br /> + That ever mortal eye survey’d.</p> +<p>A lion now, and now a bear,<br /> + And now a coil of hissing snakes;<br /> +At last a Dragon she became,<br /> + And furious she the knight attacks.</p> +<p>He cut her with a little knife,<br /> + So that her blood did stain the floor;<br /> +Then straight before his eye there stood<br /> + A Damsel bright as any flower.</p> +<p>“Now, Damsel fair, I’ve rescued thee<br /> + From thraldom drear and secret care;<br /> +Now tell me of thy ancestry,<br /> + Thy parents and thy race declare.”</p> +<p><!-- page 10--><a name="page10"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +10</span>“My father he was England’s King,<br /> + My mother was his lovely Queen;<br /> +My brother once a grey wolf was,<br /> + And trotted o’er the wold so green.”</p> +<p>“If England’s King thy father was,<br /> + And thy dear mother England’s Queen,<br /> +Thou art my sister’s daughter then,<br /> + Who long a Nightingale has been.”</p> +<p>O there was joy throughout the land,<br /> + And all the court was filled with glee;<br /> +The Knight has caught the Nightingale,<br /> + That dwelt within the linden tree.</p> +<h2><!-- page 11--><a name="page11"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +11</span>THE VALKYRIE AND RAVEN</h2> +<p>Ye men wearing bracelets<br /> + Be mute whilst I sing<br /> +Of Harald the hero—<br /> + High Norroway’s king;<br /> +I’ll duly declare<br /> + A discourse which I heard,<br /> +Betwixt a bright maiden<br /> + And black raven bird.</p> +<p>The Valkyrie’s vext<br /> + No war-field to find;<br /> +The speech she knew well<br /> + Of the wild feather’d kind,<br /> +And thus she bespake him<br /> + Who bears the brown bill,<br /> +So proud as he perch’d on<br /> + The peak of the hill.</p> +<p><!-- page 12--><a name="page12"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +12</span>“What do you here, ravens,<br /> + And whence come ye, say,<br /> +Your heads turn’d direct to<br /> + The dying sun’s ray?<br /> +Bits of flesh hold your claws—<br /> + There’s blood flowing free<br /> +From your beaks, surely nigh<br /> + Dead bodies there be.”</p> +<p>Then wiping his beak,<br /> + Bloody red, on the rock,<br /> +The eagle’s sworn brother<br /> + Thus answer’d and spoke:<br /> +“Harald we’ve follow’d,<br /> + Of Halfdan the son,<br /> +Ever since from the egg<br /> + That we egress have won.”</p> +<p>“Then ye know, bird, the king,<br /> + Whose keep is in Kvine,<br /> +The young king—the Norse king—<br /> + Whose keels cut the brine;<br /> +<!-- page 13--><a name="page13"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +13</span>Red-rimm’d are his bucklers,<br /> + Betarr’d are his oars—<br /> +His sails are all bleach’d<br /> + With the sea-spray and showers.”</p> +<p>“Abroad will drink Yule,<br /> + The young king, and will try<br /> +To wake up, O maiden,<br /> + The wild game of Frey,<br /> +Of the warmth of the hearth<br /> + He weary is grown;<br /> +He loathes the close chamber<br /> + And cushions of down.</p> +<p>“Heard ye not the hard fight<br /> + Near Hafirsfirth beach,<br /> +’Twixt the king of high kindred<br /> + And Kotva the rich?<br /> +Sail’d ships from the East<br /> + Prepared for war stern;<br /> +Their dragon heads gaped,<br /> + Their gilded sides burn.</p> +<p><!-- page 14--><a name="page14"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +14</span>“They were fill’d with proud freemen<br /> + Well furnish’d with shields,<br /> +And the very best weapons<br /> + The western land yields;<br /> +Grimly the Baresarkers<br /> + Grinn’d, biting steel,—<br /> +Howl’d the wolf-heathens<br /> + War madness they feel.</p> +<p>“They moved ’gainst the monarch<br /> + Whose might makes them pine,<br /> +’Gainst the king—the Norse king—<br /> + Who keeps court at Utstein;<br /> +Flinch’d the king’s bark at first,<br /> + For they ply’d her right well—<br /> +There was hammering on helmets<br /> + Ere Haklangr fell.</p> +<p>“Left the land to the lad<br /> + With the locks long and full,<br /> +Rich Kotva, the lord,<br /> + Thick of neck, like the bull;<br /> +<!-- page 15--><a name="page15"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +15</span>’Neath the thwarts themselves threw,<br /> + They who’d wounds, in despair,<br /> +Their heads to the keel<br /> + And their heels to the air.</p> +<p>“On their shoulders their shields,<br /> + Such as Swafni’s roof form,<br /> +Flinging swift as a fence<br /> + From the fierce stony storm;<br /> +The yeomen affrighted<br /> + From Hafirsfirth speed,<br /> +And arrived at their homes<br /> + They call hoarsely for mead.</p> +<p>“The slain strew the strand<br /> + To the very great joy<br /> +Of ourselves and of Odin,<br /> + The chief of one eye.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Valkyrie</i>.</p> +<p>“Of his wars and his prowess<br /> + With wonder I’ve heard;<br /> +Now speak of his wives<br /> + And his women, O bird!”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 16--><a +name="page16"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +16</span><i>Raven</i>.</p> +<p>“He had damsels from Holmygg<br /> + And Hordaland, too;<br /> +And damsels from Hedemark<br /> + Dainty of hue;<br /> +But he sent them with gifts<br /> + To their countries again,<br /> +When he wedded Ranhilda<br /> + The beautiful Dane.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Valkyrie</i>.</p> +<p>“I warrant he’s bounteous!<br /> + And well doth reward<br /> +The warriors and gallants<br /> + His kingdom who guard.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Raven</i>.</p> +<p>“O, yes, he is bounteous!<br /> + And bravely they fare<br /> +Who in Harald’s dominions<br /> + Hew food for the bear;<br /> +<!-- page 17--><a name="page17"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +17</span>With coin he presents them,<br /> + And keen polish’d glaives,<br /> +With mail from Hungaria<br /> + And Osterland slaves.”</p> +<p>“O happy lives have they<br /> + Who help him in war,<br /> +Can run to the mast-head<br /> + Or manage the oar;<br /> +Make the row-locks to creak,<br /> + And the row-bench to crack,<br /> +And in their lord’s service<br /> + Are never found slack.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Valkyrie</i>.</p> +<p>“Of the Skalds now I’ll ask thee,<br /> + The sons of the strain,<br /> +By whom deathless honor<br /> + He hopes to obtain;<br /> +I doubt not, O Raven,<br /> + That thou knowest well<br /> +The workers of verse<br /> + Who at Harald’s court dwell.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 18--><a +name="page18"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +18</span><i>Raven</i>.</p> +<p>“By their gallant array,<br /> + By the armlets they bear<br /> +All of gold, you may learn<br /> + To their lord they are dear;<br /> +Ruddy kirtles they have<br /> + That are laced at the skirts,<br /> +Swords silver inlaid,<br /> + And steely mail shirts:<br /> +All gilded their hilts,<br /> + Their helmets all graven;<br /> +Gold rings on their hands.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Valkyrie</i>.</p> +<p> “Now read me, O Raven,<br /> +Of the Baresarkers—how<br /> + Do ye style them who wade<br /> +In blood ankle-deep<br /> + By no danger dismay’d?”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><!-- page 19--><a +name="page19"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +19</span><i>Raven</i>.</p> +<p>“Wolf-heathens they hight,<br /> + To the thick of the fray<br /> +Ruddy shields who do bear,<br /> + And with swords clear away;<br /> +None but those who know nought<br /> + Of terror can stand<br /> +When stout and strong men<br /> + Shiver buckler with brand.”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Valkyrie</i>.</p> +<p>“Of jesting and game<br /> + Our discourse shall be brief;<br /> +What does Andadr do,<br /> + Harald’s jester in chief?”</p> +<p style="text-align: center"><i>Raven</i>.</p> +<p>“Fun Andadr loves;<br /> + He makes faces and sneers,<br /> +And the monarch doth laugh<br /> + At the loon without ears.<br /> +<!-- page 20--><a name="page20"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +20</span>There are others who bear<br /> + Burning brands from the fire<br /> +Stick a torch ’neath their belt,<br /> + Yet ne’er singe their attire;<br /> +Some that dance on their heels,<br /> + Or that tumble and spring—<br /> +O ’tis gay in the hall<br /> + Of high Harald the king!”</p> +<h2><!-- page 21--><a name="page21"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +21</span>ERIK EMUN AND SIR PLOG</h2> +<p>Early at morn the lark sang gay—<br /> + (<i>All underneath so green a hill</i>)<br /> +Sir Carl by his bed put on his array—<br /> + (<i>The Danish King will ’venge his +fill</i>).</p> +<p>He drew on his shirt as white as milk,<br /> +Then his doublet foisted with verdant silk.</p> +<p>His legs in his buckskin boots he placed,<br /> +And around them his gilded spurs he braced.</p> +<p>His gilded spurs there around he braced,<br /> +And away to the Ting he rode in haste.</p> +<p>Sir Carl he galloped along the way,<br /> +Such wondrous things he proved that day.</p> +<p><!-- page 22--><a name="page22"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +22</span>Sir Carl he galloped up to the Ting,<br /> +The crowd before him scattering.</p> +<p>To warriors nine the Dane-king cries:<br /> +“Bind ye Sir Carl before my eyes.”</p> +<p>Up then amain the nine warriors rise,<br /> +They bound Sir Carl ’fore their sovereign’s eyes.</p> +<p>And out from the town Sir Carl they convey’d,<br /> +And upon a new wheel his body laid.</p> +<p>To Sir Plog then quickly a messenger came:<br /> +“The Dane-king has broken thy brother’s +frame.”</p> +<p>Sir Plog he sprang o’er the wide, wide board,<br /> +But returned in answer no single word.</p> +<p>In his buckskin boots his shanks he cased<br /> +And around his gilded spurs he braced.</p> +<p>His gilded spurs there around he tied,<br /> +And away to the Ting the noble hied.</p> +<p>And fast and furious was his course,<br /> +So leapt and bounded his gallant horse.</p> +<p><!-- page 23--><a name="page23"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +23</span>Up, up to the Ting Sir Plog he goes,<br /> +And up to receive him the Dane-king rose.</p> +<p>“If I had been earlier here to-day,<br /> +Then things had turned out in a better way.</p> +<p>“My brother is wheeled though he did no wrong,<br /> +That deed, Dane-king, thou shalt rue ere long.</p> +<p>“If four hours sooner I had but come,<br /> +My brother, for certain, had followed me home.</p> +<p>“Deprived of his life doth my brother lie,<br /> +Dane-king, thou hast lost thine honour thereby.”</p> +<p>The Dane-king so fitting an answer returned:<br /> +“Thy brother full richly his death had earned.</p> +<p>“When the great with sword can oppress the mean<br /> +The law is not worth a rotten bean.”</p> +<p>“My brother, Sir King, was good and bold,<br /> +I could have redeemed him with silver and gold.”</p> +<p>“Thy silver and gold I hold at nought,<br /> +The law shall have the course it ought.</p> +<p><!-- page 24--><a name="page24"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +24</span>“And since thou so long on this matter doth +prate,<br /> +Thou shalt suffer the very same fate.”</p> +<p>To warriors nine the Dane-king cries:<br /> +“Bind ye Sir Plog before my eyes.”</p> +<p>“If a truly brave man, Dane-king, thou be,<br /> +Do thou thyself bind and fetter me.”</p> +<p>The King off his hands the little gloves took,<br /> +Sir Plog his spear with vehemence shook.</p> +<p>He first slew four, then five he slew,<br /> +And the Dane-king himself with his warriors true.</p> +<p>When all the King’s men he dead had laid,<br /> +His gallant brother he home convey’d.</p> +<p>To Ribe the royal corse they bear,<br /> +Where it rests ’neath a tomb of marble fair.</p> +<p>But Sir Plog he went to a foreign shore,<br /> +No word they heard of him evermore.</p> +<h2><!-- page 25--><a name="page25"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +25</span>THE ELVES</h2> +<p><i>Take heed</i>, <i>good people</i>, <i>of yourselves</i>;<br +/> +<i>And oh</i>! <i>beware ye of the elves</i>.</p> +<p>Once a peasant young and gay<br /> +Was in his meadow cutting hay,<br /> +There came a lovely looking lass<br /> +From out the neighbouring morass.<br /> +The lass he woo’d, her promise won,<br /> +And soon the bridal day came on.<br /> +But when the pair had got to bed,<br /> +The bridegroom found, with fear and dread,<br /> +That he a rough oak stump embrac’d,<br /> +Instead of woman’s lovely waist.<br /> +Then, to increase his fear and wonder,<br /> +There sang a voice his window under:</p> +<p><!-- page 26--><a name="page26"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +26</span>“Come out to her whom thou didst wed,<br /> +Upon my mead the bed is spread.”<br /> +From that wild lay the peasant knew<br /> +He with a fay had had to do.</p> +<p><i>Take heed</i>, <i>good people</i>, <i>of yourselves</i>;<br +/> +<i>And oh</i>! <i>beware ye of the elves</i>.</p> +<h2>FERIDUN</h2> +<p>No face of an Angel could Feridun claim,<br /> +Nor of musk nor of amber I ween was his frame;<br /> +In bright generosity beauteous was he,<br /> +Be generous like him and as fair thou shalt be.</p> +<h2><!-- page 27--><a name="page27"></a><span class="pagenum">p. +27</span>EPIGRAMS</h2> +<h3>1.</h3> +<p>A worthless thing is song, I trow,<br /> +From out the heart which does not flow;<br /> +But song from out no heart will flow<br /> +Which does not feel of love the glow.</p> +<h3>2.</h3> +<p>Though pedants have essayed to hammer<br /> +Into our heads the points of grammar;<br /> +We’re oft obliged to set at nought<br /> +The different force of <i>should</i> and <i>ought</i>;<br /> +And oft are sorely puzzled whether<br /> +We should make use of <i>both</i> or <i>either</i>.</p> +<h3>3.</h3> +<p>When of yourself you have cause to speak<br /> +Always make yourself broad and 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