Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads

Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
LITTLE DANNEVED AND SWAYNE TROST
and other ballads
by GEORGE BORROW
London: printed for private circulation
1913
Copyright in the United States of America by Houghton , Mifflin & Co. for Clement Shorter .
Alf he builds a vessel stout, For he will rove and sail about.
Alf he builds a vessel high, The trade of pirate he will try.
He draws on the sand a circle mark, And with a bound he gained the bark.
Upon the prow Alf foremost stood, And Copenhagen’s koggers view’d.