(34) [Ulf Van Yern: 1913]

Ulf Van Yern / and / Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 27; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page (with notice regarding the American copyright upon the reverse) pp. 3–4; and Text of the Ballads pp. 5–27. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Upon the reverse of p. 27 is the following imprint: “London: / Printed for

Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A (a quarter-sheet of two leaves), B (a half-sheet of four leaves), and C (a full sheet of eight leaves), all inset within each other.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8½ × 6⅞ inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

Contents.

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Ulf Van Yern. [It was youthful Ulf Van Yern] This ballad was here printed from the Manuscript prepared for the projected Kœmpe Viser of 1854. In the MS of 1829 the ballad is entitled Ulf Van Yern and Vidrik Verlandson. The texts of the two versions differ widely in almost every stanza. 5
The Chosen Knight. [Sir Oluf rode forth over hill and lea] 16
Sir Swerkel. [There’s a dance in the hall of Sir Swerkel the Childe] 19
Finn and the Damsel, or The Trial of Wits. [“What’s rifer than leaves?” Finn cried] 23
Epigrams by Carolan:
1. On Friars. [Would’st thou on good terms with friars live] 26
2. On a surly Butler, who had refused him admission to the cellar. [O Dermod Flynn it grieveth me] 26
Lines. [How deadly the blow I received] The last four lines of this Poem had already served (but with a widely different text) as the last four lines of the Ode from the Gaelic, printed in Romantic Ballads, 1826, pp 142–143. 27

There is a copy of Ulf Van Yern and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.

(35) [Ellen of Villenskov: 1913]

Ellen of Villenskov / and Other Ballads / By / George Borrow / London: / Printed for Private Circulation / 1913.

Collation:—Square demy octavo, pp. 22; consisting of: Half-title (with blank reverse) pp. 1–2; Title-page, as above (with blank reverse) pp. 3–4; and Text of the Ballads pp. 5–22. There are head-lines throughout, each page being headed with the title of the particular Ballad occupying it. Following p. 22 is a leaf, with blank reverse, and with the following imprint upon its recto: “London: / Printed for Thomas J. Wise, Hampstead, N.W. / Edition limited to Thirty Copies.” The signatures are A (a half-sheet of four leaves), with B (a full sheet of eight leaves) inset within it.

Issued in bright green paper wrappers, with untrimmed edges, and with the title-page reproduced upon the front. The leaves measure 8½ × 6⅞ inches.

Thirty Copies only were printed.

Contents.

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Ellen of Villenskov. [There lies a wold in Vester Haf] 5
Uranienborg. [Thou who the strand dost wander] Previously printed, with an earlier and far inferior text, under the title The Ruins of Uranienborg, in The Foreign Quarterly Review. June, 1830, pp. 85–86. 13
The Ready Answer. [The brother to his dear sister spake] 19
Epigrams:
1. There’s no living, my boy, without plenty of gold 22
2. O think not you’ll change what on high is designed 22
3. Load not thyself with gold, O mortal man, for know 22

Note.—Each poem to which no reference is attached, appeared for the first time in this volume.

The Manuscripts of the poems included in Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads are in the Library of Mr. Clement K. Shorter.

There is a copy of Ellen of Villenskov and Other Ballads in the Library of the British Museum. The Press-mark is C. 44. d. 38.