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    Grimhild's Vengeance: Three Ballads
    Grimhild's Vengeance: Three Ballads
    Grimhild's Vengeance: Three Ballads
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    Grimhild's Vengeance: Three Ballads

    By George Henry Borrow, Thomas James Wise and Edmund Gosse

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Grimhild's Vengeance - George Henry Borrow

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Grimhild's Vengeance, by Anonymous, Edited by

      Thomas Wise, Translated by George Borrow

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      Title: Grimhild's Vengeance

      Three Ballads

      Author: Anonymous

      Editor: Thomas Wise

      Release Date: June 12, 2009 [eBook #29103]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRIMHILD'S VENGEANCE***

      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.

      GRIMHILD’S VENGEANCE

      three ballads

      by

      GEORGE BORROW

      Edited

      with an introduction

      by

      EDMUND GOSSE, C.B.

      London:

      printed for private circulation

      1913

      Copyright in the United States of America

      by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.

      INTRODUCTION

      Borrow and the Kjæmpeviser.

      The modern poetical literature of Denmark opens with a collection of epical and lyrical poems from the Middle Ages, which are loosely connected under the title of Kjæmpeviser or Heroic Ballads.  Of these the latest scholarship recognises nearly 500, but in the time of Borrow the number did not much exceed 200.  These ballads deal with half-historic events, which are so completely masked by fantastic, supernatural and incoherent imagery that their positive relation to history can rarely be discovered.  Nevertheless, they throw a very valuable light upon the manners of mediaeval society in Scandinavia, and they are often of high poetical beauty.  No conjecture can be formed as to the authors of these ballads, and even the centuries in which they were composed are uncertain.  Grimm believed them to be uralt, and attributed them to the 5th and 6th centuries.  But on linguistic grounds, this extreme antiquity cannot be maintained.  It is now supposed that they were composed at various times between 1300 and 1500, and that in their present form they bear the stamp of the period when they were first collected by the Danish antiquaries of the sixteenth century.

      The circumstances in which this famous collection of folk-songs came into public notice were of a romantic nature.  Sophia, Queen of Denmark, when sailing across the Sound in the year 1586, was driven by stress of weather to take shelter in the little island-harbour of Hveen, where

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