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Title: The Expedition to Birting's Land
and other ballads
Translator: George Borrow
Editor: Thomas J. Wise
Release Date: October 6, 2008 [eBook #26793]
Language: English
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING'S LAND***
Transcribed from the 1914 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE EXPEDITION TO
BIRTING’S LAND
and other ballads
by
GEORGE BORROW
London:
printed for private circulation
1914
Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter.
THE EXPEDITION TO BIRTING’S LAND
The King he o’er the castle rules,
He rules o’er all the land;
O’er many a hardy hero too,
With naked sword in hand.
Let the courtier govern his steed,
The boor his thatchèd cot,
But Denmark’s King o’er castles rules,
For nobler is his lot.
King Diderik sits on Brattingsborg,
And round he looks with pride:
"No one I know of in the world
Would me in fight abide."
Then answered Brand Sir Viferlin,
Had been in many a land:
"Methinks I know a warrior stout
Would thee in fight withstand.
"He’s Ifald call’d, a king is he,
In Birting’s land afar;
And he has fellows following him
With savage wolves who war.
"O he