BALLADS
FROM THE DANISH
AND
ORIGINAL VERSES

BALLADS
FROM THE DANISH
AND
ORIGINAL VERSES

BY
E. M. SMITH-DAMPIER
LONDON :: ANDREW MELROSE
3 YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN
1910
PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.
TO THE
MEMORY OF MY PARENTS

CONTENTS

[BALLADS FROM THE DANISH]
PAGE
[King Olaf and the Trolls][3]
[Sir Karl’s Lykewake][7]
[The Avenging Sword][10]
[The Avenging Daughters][14]
[Young Danneved and Boy Trust][17]
[The Knavish Merman][21]
[The Wood-Raven][24]
[An Ower-true Tale][28]
[The Wooing of Ranil Jonson][31]
[Lovel and John][34]
[Rime of the Dead Lover][38]
[ORIGINAL VERSES]
[The King’s Hunting][45]
[Ballad of Sir Herluin][54]
[Bothwell’s Soothsaying][58]
[The Riding of the Shee (A Ballad of Prince Charlie)][65]
[Ballad of London Town (A Song of the ’Forty-five)][68]
[Ballad of the Traitor’s Head (1746)][70]

BALLADS FROM THE DANISH
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