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The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne - George Henry Borrow
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Title: The Giant of Bern and Orm Ungerswayne
a Ballad
Author: Anonymous
Editor: Thomas J. Wise
Release Date: May 14, 2009 [eBook #28818]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIANT OF BERN AND ORM
UNGERSWAYNE***
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 GIANT OF BERN
AND ORM UNGERSWAYNE
a ballad
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1913
THE GIANT OF BERN
AND ORM UNGERSWAYNE
It was the lofty Jutt of Bern
O’er all the walls he grew;
He was mad and ne’er at rest,
To tame him no one knew.
He was mad and ne’er at rest,
No lord could hold him in;
If he had long in Denmark stayed
Much
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