BALLADS FROM THE DANISH NOTE

In the translations the metre of the original has in all cases been scrupulously followed.

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KING OLAF AND THE TROLLS

SIR KARL’S LYKEWAKE

THE AVENGING SWORD

THE AVENGING DAUGHTERS

YOUNG DANNEVED AND BOY TRUST

THE KNAVISH MERMAN

THE WOOD-RAVEN

AN OWER-TRUE TALE

THE WOOING OF RANIL JONSON

LOVEL AND JOHN

[A] Lit. Be ye well boun

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RIME OF THE DEAD LOVER

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ORIGINAL VERSES

THE KING’S HUNTING

BALLAD OF SIR HERLUIN

BOTHWELL’S SOOTHSAYING

Note.—The vault referred to in this ballad is that beneath the castle of Hermitage in which the “Wicked Lord Soulis” practised his sorceries—the custody of which, at his execution, he committed to Redcap, his familiar demon. By the time (some three centuries later) that Bothwell, as Warden of the Marches, took up residence at Hermitage, I have ventured to suppose that the vault (always looked on with horror) might have become ruinous.

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THE RIDING OF THE SHEE[B] A BALLAD OF PRINCE CHARLIE September 1745

[B] Gaelic Duione Sidhe (shee) = fairy-folk.

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BALLAD OF LONDON TOWN A SONG OF THE FORTY-FIVE

BALLAD OF THE TRAITOR’S HEAD (1746)

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