The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads

by George Borrow

Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.

THE SERPENT KNIGHT
and
OTHER BALLADS

by
GEORGE BORROW

London:
printed for private circulation
1913

Table of Contents

	page
The Serpent King	[7]
Sir Olaf	[10]
The Treacherous Merman	[15]
The Knight in the Deer’s Shape	[18]
The Stalwart Monk	[24]
The Cruel Step-dame	[30]
The Cuckoo	[34]

THE SERPENT KNIGHT

Signelil sits in her bower alone,
Of her golden harp she waked the tone.

Beneath her mantle her harp she played,
Then in came striding the worm so laid.

“Proud Signelil, if thou me wilt wed,
I’ll give thee store of gold so red.”