Tord of Hafsborough, and Other Ballads

by George Borrow

Transcribed from the 1914 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

TORD OF HAFSBOROUGH
and other ballads

by
GEORGE BORROW

London:
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

1914

Copyright in the United States of America
by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. for Clement Shorter.

TORD OF HAFSBOROUGH

It was Tord of Hafsborough,
O’er the verdant wold would ride,
And there he lost his hammer of gold,
’Twas lost for so long a tide.

It was Tord of Hafsborough,
His brother he addressed:
“Thou shalt away to the Norland hills,
My hammer be thy quest.”

It was Lokke Leyemand,
A feather robe o’er him drew;
And away to the Norland mountains high
O’er the briny sea he flew.